Wild Willy Barrett's French Connection at The Musician

Date: Sun 15th Oct
Time: 20:00

Sun 15th Oct 2017
Wild Willy Barrett's French Connection
£10.00adv £12.00door
Doors 7:30pm
Andy Wright Presents;
From a cafe in Paris, via a hoolie in Dublin, to a night out in New Orleans with rip-roaring fiddle and banjo – this band does it all!
 
Imagine stumbling across a smoky back street bar, late night jam: Django Reinhardt and The Pogues; Robert Johnson accompanies Edith Piaf; Bob Marley’s jammin’ with Stéphane Grappelli; Tom Waits joins in. This is French Connection.
 
At the ensemble’s heart are the undisputed talents of multi-instrumentalist, erstwhile Godfather of grunge folk, Wild Willy Barrett.
Featuring an original melange of French, Irish and English acoustic arrangements, using everything from a guitar and cello, to Irish pipes and banjo, there really is nothing else quite like them.
The group was born during a chance encounter in 2002, when Willy approached a cellist he saw performing with a belly-dancing troupe.
 
"Willy was living on the Grand Union canal near Tring, Herts. He saw and heard me playing and dancing in the garden of a pub close to where his boat was moored and came rushing over with the immortal words 'would you like to join my band?'

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