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Live at the Wyeside

John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris: Live at the Wyeside (Squeezer SQZCD 126)

Live at the Wyeside
John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris

Squeezer SQZCD 126 (CD, UK, November 2025)

A live recording with John and Sue re-uniting for the first time in over thirty years to play through a chunk of their old repertoire, adding some new tunes and arrangements, and joining forces with their son Benji on seven of the sixteen tracks. A few songs in harmony, a few solos, with a couple of songs led by Benji, and some startling instrumentals.

Recorded live at the Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, Wales on 2 October 2024

Musicians

John Kirkpatrick: button accordion, Anglo concertina, baritone concertina, vocals;
Sue Harris: hammered dulcimer, oboe, vocals

with
Benji Kirkpatrick: bouzouki, mandolin, vocals

Tracks

  1. Wilbur’s Wonder / In the Nick of Time
  2. The Gipsy Laddie (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  3. I Wish, I Wish (Roud 495)
  4. The Old Miner (Roud 1136)
  5. The Cheshire Rounds / The Old Lancashire Hornpipe
  6. A Shropshire Lad
  7. If I Were a Blackbird (Roud 387; Henry H79)
  8. Oakham Poachers (Roud 1686)
  9. The Moon Struck One
  10. Locrian Lockdown
  11. The Willow Tree (Roud 18831)
  12. Wallbreaker
  13. Kettle Drum / The Gas Almost Works
  14. The Dark Town Strutters’ Ball
  15. The Handling of Your Sword
  16. Dennis Crowther’s Tunes

Track 6 Sir John Betjeman, Jim Parker;