John Kirkpatrick has been dancing, singing, and playing his way around the English folk scene since he joined Hammersmith Morris Men in 1959 at the age of twelve. Displaying a rare skill on a variety of push-pull squeezeboxes – the melodeon, the button accordion, and the Anglo concertina – he has been fully professional since 1970, not only with vast amounts of solo appearances, but also in all kinds of duos, trios, and bands – including spells in Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Trans Europe Diatonique, in a long term duo with Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, lengthy stints with Richard Thompson’s Band, The Sultans of Squeeze, Brass Monkey, and Home Service. In the mid 1990s he led his own John Kirkpatrick Band.
Cohen burst onto the folk scene in his teens with the energetic and much-loved trio Granny’s Attic, who continue to enrapture audiences with their unique high-octane take on English traditional music. Alongside this, Cohen also tours with Angeline Morrison’s Sorrow Songs Band, with Reg Meuross’s Stolen from God and with The Demon Barbers, and has also enjoyed alongside one-off collaborations with such folk luminaries as John Spiers, John Kirkpatrick and Jim Moray.
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