Dan Walsh (banjo player)

Dan Walsh is a British banjoist[1][2] and guitarist.[3] He is known for the wide variety of banjo techniques he includes in his performances,[4] and for his particular skill at clawhammer style banjo.[5]

Walsh has performed as a duo with harmonica player Will Pound.[6] He also played on the folk musician Sunjay's self-titled album in 2014.[7] In 2014 he joined The Urban Folk Quartet.[8] The group's album The Escape, was included in the Telegraph's list of Best Albums of 2015.[9]

Discography

  • Tomorrow's Still to Come, 2009[10]
  • Come What May, 2013, with Clutching at Straws[11]
  • Sunjay, 2014, with Sunjay
  • Incidents and Accidents, 2015[10][12]
  • The Escape, 2015, with Urban Folk Quartet
  • Live III, 2016, with Urban Folk Quartet

References

  1. ↑ "Dan Walsh is bringing the banjo into a new world of adventure". Oxford Mail, Charlotte Krol 27 March 2014
  2. ↑ "Dan Walsh - banjo player". Perry Spiller, BBC Radio 18 October 2013
  3. ↑ "BANJOMONIUM! AND DAN’S THE MAN TO THRILL THE CROWDS". Folk Wales Online Magazine. 18th March 2015
  4. ↑ "Dan Walsh – Old Cinema Launderette (Durham, UK – March 8, 2014)". No Depression, by Steven Proctor, March 17, 2014
  5. ↑ "Cambridge Folk Festival Cherry Hinton, Cambridge". Music News, 04 August 2015 Rob and Carole Joyce
  6. ↑ "DAN WALSH - Incidents & Accidents". review from Living Tradition UK, Dave Beeby
  7. ↑ "Sunjay: Sunjay, album review". The Telegraph, Martin Chilton, 17 Sep 2014
  8. ↑ "Interview: Urban Folk Quartet". Nottingham Post, April 28, 2014
  9. ↑ "Best Folk Music Albums of 2015".
  10. 1 2 "Dan Walsh – Incidents & Accidents". Folk Radio UK, by Simon Holland on 9 March 2015
  11. ↑ "Clutching at Straws Come What May". Music News, review 07 December 2013 by Andy Snipper
  12. ↑ "‘Incidents & Accidents’ by Dan Walsh – an outpouring of expansion and innovation". FolkWords Reviews, February 13, 2015



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