Spotlight 80: Friday 26th October 2012 – Liverpool Acoustic Live

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1. Phil Hare – Si Beg Si Mhor (Live at Belper Folk Club)
   philhare.co.uk
2. Three Minute Hero – The Busker
   facebook.com/threeminuteherouk
   reverbnation.com/threeminutehero
3. Freya Jonas – My Bones
   facebook.com/freyajonasmusic
   Listen to the EP My Bones here.

BONUS TRACKS 

1. Ches Cherry – Land Of Plenty
   chescherry.net
   Ches & Al Cherry, plus Tom Doughty, will be supporting Bobby Valentino and BJ Cole at the Floral Pavilion on Saturday 17th November as part of the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain. Details here.
2. Richie Syrett – Sway
   richiesyrett.com
   The new album Good Morning Midnight is out now [website] [CD Baby] [Amazon] [iTunes]

Phil Hare is widely regarded as one of the finest and most distinctive acoustic guitarists working on the current folk music circuit. After serving a ‘local apprenticeship’ with many well-known names in the North West of England: bands like Full House and The Fiddle Band, Phil became a solo performer at the end of the 1980’s, taking to the road with a powerful, self-written song selection from his self-produced recording ‘Maidenhead Revisited’: prompting Paul Adams from Fellside to sign Phil to his record label in 1990.

Over the years Phil has been increasingly in demand as a session guitarist. This combined with live performance has seen him work on stage and in the studio with a veritable ‘who’s who’ of traditional and contemporary folk and acoustic musicians. Artists such as the late JAKE THACKERAY, THE SPINNERS, ISLA ST CLAIR, VIN GARBUTT, CHRIS NEWMAN, TOM MCCONVILLE, DAVE BURLAND, BEN & JOE BROUGHTON, BILL CADDICK, BRAM TAYLOR, GARVA, the acoustic rock band PELE (no, it’s not him!) DEAN JOHNSON, JON HARVISON and more recently with dance bands TANGLEFOOT, THREE POINT TURN and PANDEMONIUM. It was with the GINGHAM PINKS dance band that Phil played at EDINBURGH FRINGE 2001 where they provided a musical backdrop for JOHNNY VEGAS and NICHOLAS PARSONS amongst others!

In addition to regular local and national radio play and performance, Phil has completed British and European tours in the last few years, winning many friends with his combination of finely-crafted and often ‘socially aware’ chorus songs, a rich, husky voice, a humorous line in stage banter, and, quite simply, some of the best guitar playing you are likely to hear anywhere.