Welcome to My Website
Hi, there. Here you can find out about what I am presently doing musically, where and when I will be performing and with whom! Listen to some audio, watch a video of a live performance or two, or link to other websites of the bands I am involved or interested in.


 I live in Hereford, UK and am currently working with Whiskey River, ,a 5-piece rocking electric Cajun, Zydeco & Swamp Blues band and other smaller units comprising some of the same members - The Whiskey River Acoustic Quartet [4 piece Whiskey River with acoustic guitar, fiddle and double bass replacing the electric instruments],  , The Whiskey River Duo [an acoustic duo with Aidan Sheehan - a "pruned down Whiskey River" for smaller venues and budgets] and also The Whiskey River Trio [the duo plus either fiddle or double bass]. I do the very occasional solo gig too.  I hope to be performing in one of these combinations at a venue near you in the not too distant future!

You will find a few recordings of The Grass Snakes, a great bluegrass band that I was playing banjo with, but sadly, due to circumstances beyond our control, the band ceased performing in 2016. I hope you enjoy the archive material!

Rock on and have fun a-browsing!
The duo perform a couple of back to back numbers at The Bell in Redbrook, Monmouthshire on Sunday 7th April 2024
On stage in Raamsdonksveer with Whiskey River
Onstage in Raamsdonksveer, Holland. 2011
Another track from the recent acoustic album "Walk On". Steve Goodman's classic song about a train
A straight ahead acoustic blues by The Whiskey River [duo] (Aidan Sheehan and Martin Blake)
"C C Rider"
[from the album "Walk On"]

Check out more music on the "Sound & Vision" page

The Whiskey River Acoustic Quartet performing The Delmore Brothers song "Freight Train Boogie" at Three Cocks, October 2017, featuring the late, great Dennis Schiavon on double bass [RIP]
Here's a YouTube solo video playlist from the Covid Lockdown Period in 2020 (and a few beyond) - over 150 videos within! (opens in new  window)​
Click HERE
 
From The band's 2016 acoustic album, "Walk On...", here is "Wayfaring Stranger",
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On stage at Gloucester Cajun Festival with Whiskey River
On stage at Gloucester Cajun & Zydeco Festival 2016. Photo © Nigel Bewley
Here's Whiskey River's version of the Leiber and Stoller classic  "Love Potion # 9" from their 2011 album "Hot Sauce"

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On stage at Pontardawe Festival with Whiskey River
On stage at Hereford Applefest, September 2024
The Grass Snakes, performing "Ready for the Times to Get Better" at Didmarton Bluegrass Festival 2013 (above) and "Them Blues" at The Chattery, Swansea, Nov 2013 (below)
The Whiskey River Acoustic Quartet, (above) - strutting their stuff "live" at The Blind College, Hereford, December 2013 with the old Hank Williams classic "Jambalaya"

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