Peter Knight's Gigspanner Big Band - Trowbridge Festival

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As collaborations go, it doesn't get much more mouth-watering than this. While Knight, as part of Steeleye Span's classic 1970s line-up, helped invent a brand of folk rock that is still influential today, Spiers, a founder-member of Bellowhead, has had an equally profound impact on the landscape of traditional music over the last two decades.

Taking self-penned material along with music rooted in the British Isles and beyond, with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat, they produce richly atmospheric arrangements layered within a wealth of subliminal musical influences "with notes seemingly plucked from the stars and rhythms from the equator" Spiral Earth