99 Long Street
Atherstone CV9 1BB
Sally Ironmonger & Brian Carter
Sally is a singer-songwriter based in Medway, writing and performing with Brian Carter, her long suffering husband, guitarist, and musical director. Their aim is to entertain, with songs that make you laugh, or cry, or just think – and make a connection with listeners and audiences.
They tend to get categorised as folk musicians – I guess because what they do tends to be stripped down, unplugged, story based. Let’s not get into a debate about what folk music is, suffice to say that what they do is contemporary, with a nod to traditional themes. And they often sing stuff that people like to join in with.
Brian has worked as a professional and semi-professional musician all of his adult life. Over the years he has developed a style which fuses jazz, folk & Latin to produce a unique mix of melody and bass rhythms. Sally only really found her wings since they met in the 1990s – although she always loved to sing, and strummed guitar to accompany herself, it was Brian who promised to ‘put Sally’s name up in chalk’.
Over the years they have written commissions for BBC documentaries and Broadstairs Folk Week, and have been supporting artists for Belshazzar’s Feast, Barbara Dickson, Jacqui McShee, Chris Wood & Jez Lowe. They also won the Milkmaid Folk Club Folk Song competition in 2016.
Sally Ironmonger & Brian Carter
Supported by …
Phil Riley
Phil lives in Central England and has done all his life.
He says he’s a lucky man, being blessed with reasonably good health.
Despite some ups and downs, he’s had a fairly uneventful life.
His songs are whimsical, reflective, occasionally silly, tongue in cheek, political, autobiographical, fictional, serious.
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- songs of love
- songs of experience
- songs of imaginings
Floor Singers booked to perform on the night …
Malc and Gill
As a duo, Malc & Gill, not surprisingly with their backgrounds, have a wide diversity of material, both traditionally and contemporary based, and ranging from clever harmony work to humour and even a serious ballad or two, performed either a-capella or with Malc’s pleasantly understated guitar accompaniment.
Rob Barratt
Rob is a Dudley-born comic poet and singer from North Cornwall, who writes all his own material.
His act combines clever word-play with satire, verse, song and audience participation.