The Drystones - Lively Folk!
The Drystones started out when Dean Collier, Chairman of the Priddy Folk Festival needed to fill a slot at short notice at one of his venues in July 2011 and asked his son Ford if he could step up to the plate. One quick phone call to fiddler friend Alex Garden and the Drystones were formed.
Alex and Ford were friends from school. They both had a background in playing various instruments and in different styles. But they clearly found their stride in arranging lively jigs played on Guitar, Fiddle and Whistle.
Encouraged by the warm reception at Priddy, and the success of some lucrative busking through the summer the lads decided to enter the Mid Somerset Battle of the Bands. On Sunday 23rd of October they had got themselves into the finals.
The odds were surely stacked against them, as easily the youngest contestants and the only purely acoustic band they found themselves up against techno, grunge, rap and heavy metal bands. But somehow they seemed to span the wildly different audiences and won over the judges and audience alike to win the contest!
So the band, whilst still less than a year old, already had five festival gigs booked for 2012. In the meantime you may be able to catch them at Wells Blue School gigs or see them busking around Wells and Bath. They are also getting practice at local acoustic clubs like The Beacon (Wagon & Horses, Doulting, Shepton) or the Wookey Hole Club.
Gigs are listed on "see us..."
http://www.thedrystones.co.uk/see-us.html
Alex and Ford were friends from school. They both had a background in playing various instruments and in different styles. But they clearly found their stride in arranging lively jigs played on Guitar, Fiddle and Whistle.
Encouraged by the warm reception at Priddy, and the success of some lucrative busking through the summer the lads decided to enter the Mid Somerset Battle of the Bands. On Sunday 23rd of October they had got themselves into the finals.
The odds were surely stacked against them, as easily the youngest contestants and the only purely acoustic band they found themselves up against techno, grunge, rap and heavy metal bands. But somehow they seemed to span the wildly different audiences and won over the judges and audience alike to win the contest!
So the band, whilst still less than a year old, already had five festival gigs booked for 2012. In the meantime you may be able to catch them at Wells Blue School gigs or see them busking around Wells and Bath. They are also getting practice at local acoustic clubs like The Beacon (Wagon & Horses, Doulting, Shepton) or the Wookey Hole Club.
Gigs are listed on "see us..."
http://www.thedrystones.co.uk/see-us.html
