Ben Grizzly & The Loose Leaf Drifters

Ben Grizzly and his AMAZING INVISIBLE BEAR decided to invite a few friends along. They never practice and never know what they're going to play or even who is going to play (recruiting members of the audience is not uncommon), this way loose leaf status can be ensured.Ben Grizzly was born and raised in the West Country and given early musical guidance my his father who sang Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Bob Dylan, David Ackles, Love, Donovan and Al Stewart songs on the guitar. When his little brother came along he remembers being put in front of a load of card board boxes and saucepan lids by his mother, given a pair of wooden spoons and head phones, plugged into the sound system to bang along with Paul Simon and the Beatles. He started violin lessons when he started school aged 4 under the expert tutition of Jenny Patterson for the following 8 years honed a good ear. ....in Mississippi, Ontario, Louisiana, Jamaica, Shetland, New York, Ireland, the Herbrides, India and Spain, Foundations were lain...The Basement Tapes took him from the Bath in the West Country to the North Sea coast line of Norfolk.... Living on the Ark he became known as the hermit of Gun Hill to all the locals, then moved along the coast into the Big Blue House which he shared with swallows....Then afterwards worked on the fields of Norfolk with the gang master, Kenny Rogers and crossed the Fens to the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Wolds and Moors... then returned to the Fens and Norfolk once more.When coconspirator the Itinerant Poetry Librarian left for the States the time was now to find the Loose Leaf Drifters. It had always been an idea, until then never fully realised... The Loose Leaf Drifters forever changes, never practice, and never know who is going to turn up to play.. so the guys and gals have to fall in behind Grizzly on or slightly off the spot.Grizzly continues to record and perform with Andy Kirkham and Shane O'Linski with assorted percussion and with The Sally Army and Master Solo on violin etc... With Master Solo Grizzly supported the American Music Club winter 08 and Jim White August 2008. And on and on....