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John Wrightson

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/04/2007
Band Members: Myself on acoustic & electric guitars & lead vocals. Joan Edmundson - keyboards & vocals. Jim Turnbull - electric guitars, bass & vocals. Ken Jobson - acoustic guitar & vocals.
Influences: Elvis, Crickets, Everly's, Cliff, Shadows, Beatles, Seals & Croft, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Eagles, Strawbs, Gerry Rafferty,Ozark mountain dare devils, Charlie Dore, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Sutherland Brothers, Nickel Creek, Storeys:- The list goes on, anything with nice melodies & good words.
Sounds Like: When you do your own material, I suppose there are some inluences there, although I don't try to sound like anyone else. You tell me?

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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

SEDGEFIELD FOLK FESTIVAL- 4th,5th,6th Sept 2009

  Friday Sept 4 -           Parish Hall 7-30pm                   Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies                             Flossie              The John Wrightson Band    Saturday Sept 5th -    Afternoon...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:30:00 GMT

FUND RAISER

Saturday May 16th at the Sedgefield parish hall was a great success, a fund raiser for the coming folk festival in September.        Along with myself & Joan was Martin Nesbitt, who had the audience r...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 02:09:00 GMT

Sedgefield Folk Festival - 2008

   The Sedgefield folk festival was a huge success. The parish hall and church concerts, the world championship spoons and singarounds were all well attended.    Thanks to all...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:07:00 GMT

Handon Hold Banner

The launch of the new Handon Hold colliery banner at West Pelton primary school was quite a memorable and enjoyable day. In front of an audience of about 100 people including some of the school childr...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Available

We had a really enjoyable night playing at Bishop Auckland Town Hall with Vin last week, also the Foresters FC last Monday.       The John Wrightson Band are available for gig...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:30:00 GMT

SEDGEFIELD FOLK & MUSIC fESTIVAL 2008

 The Sedgefield Folk & Music festival-2008 - is on the 5th, 6th & 7th of September 2008. (Fri, Sat & Sun).    Concerts are held in the Parish Hall.  Friday Sept 5th 7-3...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:46:00 GMT

Sedgefield live music club (cricket club)

   Sedgefield Cricket Club folk & live music is usually on the third saturday of the month, September to April, but please check diary as somtimes this changes.   The venue holds a hundred people and ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:46:00 GMT

Easington Music festival

Our venue at the Murton library went down very well, a big thanks to the band members, especially Dan Hands who stood in as a last minute replacement on fiddle.   Also you the crowd for your...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:18:00 GMT

Song Description

"From The Diary of a Northumberland Miner"   Back in the mid 1840's, the miners at a Northumberland colliery went on strike. Striking  for better working conditions,...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:22:00 GMT

About John Wrightson, a very brief musical history.

Born 62 years ago in an East Durham coal mining village called Murton. My first musical band was The Rustlers, this formed when I was 15 just left school. There were 5 of us all of a similar age,...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:49:00 GMT