“One of my top favourites of the year… Brilliant.” RnR magazine ★★★★
Gavin Fairhall Lever play truly contemporary folk music. The trio bring together the exhilarating sound of Celtic traditional music and the subtle expressivity of jazz harmony.
Tunes unfold like stories, with dynamic and textured arrangements, from luminous stillness to passages of unstoppable drive. All performed with a compelling combination of fire, precision and bite.
Meet the band:
- James Patrick Gavin (violin): A star of the London folk scene, known for his expressive violin playing. “High energy brilliance” Folk Radio UK, “Hugely impressive” fRoots, “Dazzling” RnR Magazine, “The sound of today’s London Irish” Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2.
- Adrian Lever (guitar and vocals): Delivers clear tenor singing backed by intricate guitar styles inspired by Spanish flamenco and Balkan music. “Excellent intricate guitar work” The Hexham Courant, “hauntingly subtle [and] rhythmically incisive” Classical Music Daily
- Tim Fairhall (double bass): Brings jazz musicianship and an adventurous spirit to the trio. “First class… rounded beauty” Jazz Journal
Dates & Times
The Box @ The Met
£15 (inc fees)
Reviews
“Their eponymous debut captur[es] the close-knit improvisational nature of their live performance... The three meld closely to work as one...circling in a perfectly balanced orbit around the tune. Their playing is nuanced as an ensemble and as soloists, rising wraithlike up through the music. ”
Songlines
“The vibrant trio bring their multi-instrumental talents to an impressive collection of mostly original material that is an absolute blast to listen to. One of my top favourites of the year... Brilliant.”
RnR
“Gavin Fairhall Lever’s ecstatic and adventurous music is a giddy series of tone poems; the sizzling, smoking fiddle and the insistent, questing guitar dart wild and free over a solid anchor of the double bass... razor-sharp composing and surefire musical virtuosity.”
FolkWales
Gavin Fairhall Lever
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