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The Famous Potatoes
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The Famous
Potatoes have been performing for 20 years. In this time
they have played at nearly 800 barn dances, and have also
performed at over 400 other events.
Appearances range from the Lord Mayor’s Show to
busking. They have played at many major venues including the 100
Club in Oxford Street, London, Colston Hall, Bristol, St
George’s Hall, Bradford, the Greenbelt Festival for 14 years
and other festival appearances include the Trowbridge Village
Pump Folk Festival and the Skjaegardsgospel (Seaside Gospel
Festival) in Norway. The Famous Potatoes have appeared
five times on national TV, including Jim Davidson’s Generation
Game in November ’99. They have also appeared many times on
local radio, and one of their recordings, “Famous Potatoes”,
has been used as a feature on several occasions by Simon Mayo on
his Radio 1 show. They have performed in Scotland, Wales, the
Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands as well as England and
Norway. However, they are equally at home playing for local
shows and barn dances, which make up most of their bookings. |
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The Famous Potatoes
are:- Keith
Baxter (barn dance caller, trombone, mandolin, banjo and percussion)
Richard Baxter (melodeon, lead vocals, saxophone and mouth organ)
Nigel Blackaby (bass guitar/double bass and vocals)
Paul Collier (drums and vocals)
Melanie Derbyshire (recorder, percussion, vocals and barn dance
caller) Tony Littman
(guitar and vocals) “Prof”
Paul McDowell (accordion, piano and vocals)
Charlie Skelton (fiddle).
The Famous Potatoes
describe their sound as “Soil Music”, because of it’s earthy roots
- made up of western swing, bluegrass, country, gospel, folk, cajun and
who knows what all else! They appear in the Guinness Who’s Who of Folk
Music (and its recently-updated parent edition, the multi-volume
Directory of Popular Music: check your local library), and get a brief
mention in the 2nd edition (1998) of the Penguin Encyclopaedia of
Popular Music.
“One of Britain’s best barn dance bands” -
Andy Kershaw.
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