Blow away those January blues with some foot-stomping bluegrass from Old Baby Mackerel featuring a dizzying line-up of renowned musicians from some of the UK’s best folk, Americana and festival bands.
Their music uses the rhythmic sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and double bass to get knees bouncing and elbows swinging to the virtuosic sound of blistering solos and tasteful harmonies.
Be prepared to be transported back in time to the early 20th century and across the Atlantic to North America where songs dramatised the small-town fascination with locomotion, religion and the veneration of whisky and bootleg liquor.
In the last four years Old Baby Mackerel have featured regularly on BBC radio including 6 Music with Cerys Matthews, have played Glastonbury Festival twice, sold out venues across the UK, played headline slots at Purbeck and Priddy folk festivals, the Northern Irish, Cornish, Welsh, East Anglian and Swiss Bluegrass festivals, at venues and festivals all over the UK and Ireland as well as Belgium, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and Thailand.
They will perform at Hinton Martell Village Hall on January 11; Portesham Village Hall on January 12 and Halstock Village Hall on January 13.
For more information and to book tickets, go to www.artsreach.co.uk
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