High energy, unhinged, and musically extravagant, taking traditional acoustic idioms and delivering with punk abandonment and virtuosic flare. A dynamic three piece offering a unique sound emerging from Celtic, Gypsy Swing, Roma and Flamenco and tuned in savvy.

Wrapping pan european traditional acoustic music with infectious grooves, epic, pounding, sing along, punch the air anthems to intricately arranged instrumentals. 

Challenging the limitations of what people might expect acoustic instruments to sound like, the use of bowed harmonics between fiddle and bass can be as menacing and eerie as it can be psychedelic and mesmerising. 

Percussion provided by the front man Langan, whilst singing and driving the rythm guitar, he somehow co-ordinates the operating of a cajon and a tambourine with his feet bringing the driving, swinging groove of the rhythm guitar together with his foot percussion resulting in an impressively tight band sound with a tempo that is free to go anywhere. 

Add scorching hot fiddle lines and a guy thumping the groove out a double bass. 

If you're not dancing like a professional ostrich you get a refund. 

'Astonishing work, boundlessly inventive... driving rhythms and mesmerising folk melodies' R2 Magazine


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Improvising saxophone and clarinet based in Liverpool, UK

Guitar/Vocals - Jost Schiefer
Banjo/Vocals - Markus Callion
Mandoline/Guitar/Vocals - Sven Jungbeck
Drums/vocals - Nico Stallmann
Dubble Bass - Johan May 

BIO:

Back from our tour in the first weeks of july and each one’s holidays afterwards, it’s time to take a look on what happened. Instead of searching a lot for the right words, I wanna stick to a simple from-the-heart-thank-you to all of those, who cared to listen to our music, and those, that made this tour possible. Apart from that we’ll let the videos, that Micha (our manager) made, speak for themselves. Enjoy!
J

Alastair Caplin - Fiddler/Composer/Arranger
Phone: 07794 185086
Email: <a href="mailto:caplinalastair@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">caplinalastair@hotmail.com</a>
Bethnal Green Road, Hackney
www.alastaircaplin.com
	In the last three years Alastair Caplin has performed with the likes of Abigail Washburn, The Incredible String Band, Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson. He has accompanied singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts on numerous tours and recorded two albums with him; ‘Too Long in this Condition’, released last year by Drag City, and an album of Gaelic song to be released on Drag City next year. The most recent projects Alastair was involved in was recording the solo fiddle music for the film 'Burke &amp; Hare' with Simon Pegg and Bill Bailey, and writing and performing the live score for the Gaelic play Roghainn nan Daoine. Praise for Alastair’s playing includes:
“The Fiddle from Caplin charts the songs' emotional depths with an icy beauty” (Dusted magazine)
“Alastair Caplin’s live fiddle score had the air of an exquisite Polish passion play” (Scotsman)
“The live fiddle playing of Alastair Caplin was superb and evocative, whether signing a change of scene or underpinning the emotional tone of dialogue.” (Hi-Arts Review)
“Caplin shone as fiddler. Never has a musical instrument been made so overtly sexual. Caplin’s masterful technique combined with the wonderfully physical acting of Mairi Morrison, who played his on-stage wife, positively oozed sensuality.” (Stornoway Gazette)
Alastair is currently playing with The John Langan Band, Alasdair Roberts, Brooke Sharkey, Adam Beattie, Garance Louis, and as a solo act amongst other projects.


Root & Branch play the traditional music of Britain, Ireland and the Appalachian mountains. The band consists of five musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, whose diverse influences and backgrounds create their distinctive and energetic sound.

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