An Evening with The Magpie Arc

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An Evening with The Magpie Arc
Featuring Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Findlay Napier, Tom A Wright (The Albion Band) & Alex Hunter
The Magpie Arc is a cross-Border band out of Sheffield and Scotland featuring the multi-award-winning talents and wide musical influences of Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright, Alex Hunter and Martin Simpson (on electric guitar!).
Formed from the idea of bringing together a group of established folk musicians who would mix their song-writing styles and musicianship in a full-on electric band to create exciting new music and update the classic 60's and 70's British folk/rock sound, the possibilities of The Magpie Arc being something special and unique on today's folk scene became obvious very quickly.
Having three strong writers the focus has naturally been on new material, however they've also tackled some great covers plus their own re-workings of traditional songs. There's folk and rock, a bit of country and rock and even blues with rock, but whatever...