Hands Across the Pond
This exceptional recording combines the unique talents of fiddler-extraordinaire
Richard Greene with those of English pioneering piano
stylist/improviser Beryl Marriott. Together they explore
both plaintive and joyous traditional folk melodies from the British Isles.
Richard Greene has been a stylistic groundbreaker for many decades, fiddling
with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, the Jim
Kweskin Jugband, Seatrain, Gary Burton, David Grisman plus many
others, and leading his own 'The Grass is Greener', 'The Greene String
Quartet' and 'Richard Greene and the Brothers Barton'.
Beryl Marriott has gained legendary status as a founder of The British
folk music movement in the 1950s. She has influenced the music and careers
of Kate Graham, Dave Swarbrick, Ian Campbell, Martin Carthy
and numerous others.
Together these two masters of the folk idiom have created a
recording of musical warmth and technical brilliance.
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