James Meadows

James is a young multi instrumentalist, primarily a Tenor banjo player and has been now for about 4-5 years. He took up the tenor banjo after playing violin/fiddle from an early age when he fancied a change in musical direction. James has also been known to play a selection of other stringy type things. At the moment James is performing with talented DADGAD guitarist and singer, Steve Lacey and is also a member of the recently formed Folk/jazzy Quartet, 4 square.This year James was a semi finalist in the BBC young folk awards and in the past has played concerts in support of Ali Bain & Phil Cunningham, Vin Garbutt and played live on Bradford radio station- bcb.