Concert by Northumbrian musician Alistair Anderson, who plays concertina and Northumbrian pipes, presented by St Albans Folk Music.
Alistair Anderson plays St Saviour's Church on Sunday 7 February, a folk concert presented by St Albans Folk Music. He'll be performing on concertina and Northumbrian pipes, so you'll hear both instruments across the set.
Anderson is an internationally recognised exponent of the Northumbrian music tradition, and his career has taken him well beyond the North East. He's toured the USA several times and worked on collaborative projects across Africa and Asia, and he's shared stages with Richard Thompson, Kate Bush and the Lindsay String Quartet. Much of his performance style comes from his own compositions, including Steel Skies, which The Guardian called 'the finest recent original contribution to the tradition of English music'.
He's also one of the few contemporary Northumbrian musicians to have cultivated a deep relationship with the older generation of players known as 'The Shepherds' — Joe Hutton, Will Atkinson and Will Taylor — and he bridges the gap between that tradition and younger players. It's that link between the old way of playing and the new that sits at the heart of his work.
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The concert is at St Saviour's Church, 25 Sandpit Lane, St Albans, AL1 4DF, starting at 19:30. It's presented by St Albans Folk Music.
