Chris & Siobhan Nelson

New on our ReverbNation page. Listen to full audio versions of:

A Dream Gone Passing By (our contribution to Geoff Parry's recent fund-raising CD for Queenscourt Hospice, Southport); and

Play the Hand (from our 2010 CD Early Birds).

Next Gig:

Friday 25 May 2012:

New Longton Village Hall, Boundary CLose, New Longton, Preston, Lancashire, PR4 4YD.

Our special guest will be Kevin Littlewood, writer of On Morecambe Bay, performed by Christy Moore and nominated for Best Original Song in the 2012 BBC Folk Awards.

We will also be joined for this concert by the wonderful Roger Gardiner on bass.

Tickets are £8 and are available from Jim Minall on 07837 367560 or online booking at www.friendsoffolk.org.uk.

".... quite possibly the most bewitching performance that the folk scene will produce this year" (Mike Wilson, Folking.com)

"... imaginative settings that display a genuinely creative and refreshingly non-gimicky approach ... and steering well clear of today's ubiquitous guitar-dominated folk template ..." (David Kidman, fRoots magazine)

"...mellow and uncluttered with fine fiddle playing from Chris ..." (Jeremy Weaver, Fiddle On magazine)

Our latest album "Early Birds"

Listen to a few 'taster clips'

Read reviews of Early Birds here and here

Our CDs can now be purchased from our Online shop

New: Video clips on our Media page.

Acoustic duo Chris and Siobhan are currently wowing audiences with their engaging performances of traditional and contemporary songs, with accompaniment on fiddle, mandola, tenor guitar or viola, or sung a cappella. There are songs to bring a tear to your eye and songs to make you smile - and a fiddle tune or two for good measure.

Chris and Siobhan have been performing music together in a variety of folk bands for more than 20 years, having first got together when they were members of 'rogue folk' band Cluster of Nuts in the 1980s. They have been getting enthusiastic feedback everywhere they appear, and they are equally at home in an intimate, acoustic setting or on the 'big stage'. Having relocated from the south of England several years ago, Chris and Siobhan are now based in Southport, Merseyside, where they are popular members of the team of Resident Singers at the Bothy Folk Club.

Chris and Siobhan's typical live set includes a good mixture of material, with traditional songs (mainly, but not exclusively, English) and original arrangements of songs from a variety of great writers, both familiar and not so familiar.

To read a gig review click here


		Photos: Jean Smith

Chris & Siobhan support Folk Against Fascism

Site updated: 10 May 2012

"...a hell of a team as well as a talented pair of individuals"

(NetRhythms)

"Siobhan's voice had the audience spellbound"

(Folk NorthWest)

"[Chris's] violin and viola playing is a rare treat"

(Woven Wheat Whispers)

Chris and Siobhan's typical live set includes a good mixture of material, with traditional songs (mainly, but not exclusively, English) and original arrangements of songs from a variety of great writers, both familiar and not so familiar.