Gigspanner Big Band talk about their new album, Turnstone, revealing an insight into an album that exists in a tradition of sprawling and inclusive experimentalism and where variation and difference are celebrated and encouraged.
Gigspanner Big Band’s ‘Turnstone’ is a great example of how traditional song can provide a template for exciting new musical discovery. It’s also a career-defining release from one of folk’s most powerfully creative groups.
Don’t miss Gigspanner Big Band and Raynor Winn’s live dates this month for their Saltlines project. Jackie Oates will be joining them as she steps in to cover for Hannah Martin whilst she takes maternity leave.
We talk to those involved in Saltlines, a massive and ambitious project, that includes the author Raynor Winn, members of Gigspanner Big Band and Deborah Knight. The tour has a few days left and the accompanying double album is out now.
Saltlines is a massive, ambitious and highly unusual project; the fact that it feels perfectly judged at every moment is down to the sheer excellence of Gigspanner Big Band’s musicianship and the touching, clear-eyed nature of everything Raynor Winn writes or speaks. It is a constant delight.
Taken from Saltlines, the new show and collaborative project from The Gigspanner Big Band and author Raynor Winn, listen to Ten Thousand Miles and read John Spiers’s personal insight into the song collected by Cecil Sharp. Saltines is on Tour in July.
The Gigspanner Big Band have announced a collaborative project with Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, the Sunday Times best-selling memoir of walking the South West Coast Path. Saltlines is a Portrait of the South West Coast Path in Old Songs and New Words.
Featuring Peter Knight, Sacha Trochet and Roger Flack, The Gigspanner Trio, are on an extensive tour from this month. This also includes dates as the Gigspanner Big Band, an expanded lineup with Hannah Martin, Phillip Henry (of Edgelarks) and John Spiers.
It’s great to see some of our favourite bands back on the road again. Don’t miss Edgelarks, The Gigspanner Big Band (now also with John Spiers) and the newly formed duo of Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin.
Curated by Peter Knight and spanning 2009 – 2017, From Poets to Wives is an alluring compilation. Peter Knight’s Gigspanner is a national treasure and this is the best of the very best.
Don’t miss Towersey Festival’s Festiv-All this weekend featuring McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle, Gigspanner Big Band, Jim Moray, Manière des Bohémiens, Edwina Hayes and more.
The Gigspanner Big Band announce official launch gig for Natural Invention this month, to be live-streamed on Monday, September 21 via Oxfordshire’s famous Nettlebed Folk Club.
