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Colin Fletcher & Jane Griffiths

Fast tunes played slowly on fiddle and guitar

About Me

Colin Fletcher and Jane Griffiths play traditional and original tunes on guitar and fiddle. Their unique style draws on classical, jazz, and folk influences, and their music has been described as 'stunning' and 'spell-binding'.
Jane studied classical violin and piano at the prestigious Chetham's School of Music before discovering music sessions in Oxford's infamous Elm Tree pub (since demised), whereupon she decided that it's much more fun playing music without the dots!
Colin's musical experiences began in the back seat of a Morris Minor on long journeys to far-flung boggy parts of the British Isles, singing traditional songs with sister Kate and brother Jon. Aged 13, he hid for six weeks and re-appeared having taught himself to play the guitar.
Colin and Jane began playing together after meeting at Oxford's legendary Catweazle Club. Since then, they have appeared at folk clubs and festivals all over the country, both as a duo and accompanying singer-songwriters Lisa Fitzgibbon, Jon Fletcher, Abbie Lathe, Matt Sage, and many others. Colin also plays bass with BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Van Eyken, and Jane has recorded with many well-known musicians including Toni Collette and Maddy Prior. Colin and Jane have recently started working with sublime Oxford-based band Telling the Bees.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/14/2007
Band Members: Colin Fletcher and Jane Griffiths
Influences: Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill
Alastair Fraser and Tony McManus
Itzhak Perlman
Claude Debussy
Terence Dwyer
Mike Oldfield
Gerry Griffiths
Crystal Gayle
Russ Shipton
Hot Club de France
All the extraordinary musicians we play with
Sounds Like: Green & Black's Organic Mint Chocolate
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gig review

Here's a Daily Information review of the gig we played at the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford on 15 June:'Next up were Jane and Colin with a selection of hornpipes and reels. A journey from Northumberland, ...
Posted by Colin Fletcher & Jane Griffiths on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

Back in email land

Just wanted to apologize for not having responded to Friend Requests and emails recently; we've been having a few email-related issues of late, hopefully now resolved! We've also been quite busy with ...
Posted by Colin Fletcher & Jane Griffiths on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:22:00 PST

Here we are!

Well, here we are! We thought we'd better get on with making a website of sorts as so many friends have threatened to take matters into their own hands and do one for us! Very basic as yet, but at lea...
Posted by Colin Fletcher & Jane Griffiths on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST