Combining the skilful acoustic guitar work of Marc Gallagher and the smooth soulful voice of Sharmane Smith, the Maple Clouds deliver a stunning show of old R&B, combined with contemporary music influenced by the classics. Having recently released an album, they have established themselves in hometowns of Crewe and Nantwich, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and even branching out into Wigan! Expect harmonies tighter than Beyoncé’s jeans, as they take the audience from adoration to adrenaline, from Aretha Franklin to Jessie J! 

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Acoustic-Roots duo from Staffordshire and previously two-thirds of established folk-roots act ‘The Queensberry Rules’, Gary Wilcox and Phil Hulse have over 17 years’ experience of playing music together.

After countless tours throughout Europe and North America, and releasing 7 studio albums (3 of these through the Fellside Record label) with many compositions receiving national and international airplay (Mike Harding called ‘Sinking Town’ one of his favourite tracks of 2006 on his Radio 2 folk show), the band ended in February 2011.

Since then, the two have taken on different projects as far-ranging as presenting regular radio programmes to running a personalised song business, but the pull of writing and playing live again never left them, and the result is the new duo of Wilcox:Hulse.

With a unique take on roots music and their trademark strong harmonies, the new batch of songs on the First Born EP are already winning praise on the pairs’ exciting new musical journey!


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