Other Musicians
English
Northumbrian
Will Atkinson (the late)
Ernie Gordon
Ernie Gordon is the Northumbrian Tremolo player whose excellent CD, the "The Geordie Jock" can be bought directly from Ernie (01665 604168) and whose national campaign to save the red squirrel has culminated in his writing a children's book "The Adventures Of Rusty Redcoat". In the YouTube video below Ernie plays "The Squirrel in the Tree" on tremolo harmonica.
Ernie uses his "Geordie Amplier" and tremolo to play a Trilogy of Bird songs dedicated to Bill Oddie. He learned to play the traditional music of the North East of England on the tremolo in 1943 and later in life had his friend, the late Will Atkinson, from Alnwick, Northumberland as a mentor. He gives workshops and performs at NHL Festivals.
Roy Hugman
Roy Hugman has played the 'moothy' for as long as he can remember, having learned from his dad. It's second nature to him to be playing solo, in pub sessions with fiddles and Northumbrian pipes, or with his band 'Simply Northumbrian'. His style of playing has to change to suit each situation. That's something, along with so much else about 'moothy' playing that he learned from the late Will Atkinson in his latter years. Roy also enjoys playing in relative minor keys; especially some of the very old Northumbrian and Borders pipe and fiddle tunes. Interestingly, he'd never heard Will, Ernie Gordon or Jimmy Little for that matter play those old tunes, but they sound great on the 'moothy'.
Anita James
Jimmy Little
Jim Smith
Other English
Will Pound
Will Pound pictured, left, is (according to Brendan Power) one of the most accomplished chromatic and diatonic harmonica players around. Will is from the midlands and is currently a student on the ground breaking Newcastle University Folk and Traditional Music degree course. Will is often accompanied by Eddy Jay (on accordion) since they met on the festival circuit and they have collaborated to produce several new recordings - see the YouTube page of this site. For full size YouTube version click here.
Eddie Upton
Eddie Upton is a Director of Folk South West, in England, UK. In this rare solo performance he plays some traditional English folk melodies on the tremolo harmonica during the NHL H2008 festival concert.
Steve Harrison who plays in Dearman, Gammon & Harrison
The late Jim Small of Cheddar (not too far from my home village) played (probably) diatonic when he accompanied country dance. I had a CD, which I have mislaid but fortunately backed up to MP3 of 33 of his tracks.
Terry Potter
Katie Howson (Suffolk, another Melodeon player primarily)
Martin Brinsford (Gloucestershire, primarily a percussionist)
Quebecois
Bruno Kowalczyk
Bruno plays traditional French Canadian Music from Quebec, mainly on Tremolo; although he plays Irish Traditional Music on customised Chromatic with the slide reversed, Eddie Clarke style. Bruno has also recently published a bilingual French/English book and accompanying CD, Playing Quebecois Music on the Harmonica, co-written with Raymond Lambert, which covers the history of the harmonica and Quebecois music and how to play it. The book also covers harmonica repairs and modifications as well as an explanation of the harmonicas used to see the book and disc contents, click the link.
