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Frolicking Pete and the Fumbling Fingers - Who's Who
Pete
Crewe
Caller
and multi-instrumentalist (when he gets the time!), and also calls freelance.
Explains all the dances, calls them through if necessary and MCs the evening
if you wish.
Keith
Cocker
Melodeon,
whistles, bodhran
Alex
Nearney
Six
and twelve-string guitar and banjo
Gin
Crewe
Anglo concertina, guitar, bouzouki, harmonium. Also sings with the well-known harmony group Wenchall
Chris
Hunwick
Fiddle,
mandolin, (in fact plays fiddle (violin for purists!) to grade 8) and piano.
Reduces the average age of the band by 12 years!
The original members of the band were all morris musicians. One evening, after strenuous dancing and intaking of liquid refreshment they were asked to provide music for a ceilidh. “But what are you called? After the usual ribald comments, it seemed a REALLY good idea to call themselves something unusual, hence “Frolicking Pete and the Fumbling Fingers Concertina Ceilidh Band”- really trips off the tongue, doesn’t it? They did think they were just going to do the one ceilidh...and that was twenty years ago!
Members of the band have played and sung in various line-ups over the last 30 years (wow– really so long...scary!) including Priory, Brillig, Millstone, Clitheroe Country Fayre Ladies, Clitheroe Morris men, Bobbins and Reelers and Galloway.
Currently Alex and Keith play
with “Corrigan,” Gin sings with Janet Lynch and Emma Gill in “Wenchall”
and Chris is a founder member of “The Swinging Sporrans”!
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