Artist / Band: Ffonic
From: Newtown, Powys
Style / influences: International folk music.
Kitty (our musical director) arranges parts for our instruments, from trad. tunes.
Who's in the band? Mark & Fiona Chappell:
Alto sax & Viola, Stuart Carter-Brown:Tenor Sax, Etienne Desclaux: Alto sax, Sarah Banks: Baritone sax, Kitty Greenwood: Fiddle,concertina,piano, Steve Leyland, Peter Timmins: Fiddle, Bridget, Bob & Beatrice(13) Wallbank: Flute, French Horn,Tabla/percussion, Cath Morgan & Jane Berg: Flute, Trisha Marlow-Spalding: whistles, Charles Ruxton: whistles,Mary Browning: cello, Esta Esselmont: mellodeon & Clarinet, Garry Saady: Guitar, Jill Payne: Percussion, Rob Carolan: Djembe.
Been going since: September 2000, with 7 of us in a kitchen!
Where they play: Practice @ Newtown Football club.
Favorite local venue: Every venue we've played has had its own magic & atmosphere, with the possible exception of Safeways' car park!
Songs they cover: A good selection from around the world.
Recordings available: None - yet.
Best moment so far: Too many to mention, every gig is great fun, but taking the band on a French exchange trip to Derval & having 500 wild French village folk dancing enthusiastically to our music @ 2AM! On the same trip the locals redirected the traffic because people were dancing in the streets as we played outside a cafe!
Future plans: We think a video diary about the rise & rise of Ffonic and some of the crazy things we've done would make excellent local TV entertainment. So there's a thought...
Favourite other local bands: There aren't really any - that's why we started Ffonic!
Anything else we should know?: Ffonic is so much fun to be in, that one of our sax players drives a 170mile round trip every Monday night to be with us (& never misses!) We have to keep Kitty away from the bar - else she plays 3 times as fast & we can't keep up!
Nobody in the band gets paid - it's just for fun (but we take our music seriously)...and it is!
Website: www.ffonic.co.uk
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