Pete Dunne

?True English folk singing, in my humble opinion, doesn't come much better than this.? ? Keith Kendrick Nick Caffrey, Ed McGurk and Robin Madge are well-seasoned performers of traditional, original and contemporary folksong. They know how to pick a song for the occasion, they know when to play it straight and they know when to give it a unique and modern twist. But however they interpret and craft each song, you know their vocal and musical arrangements are going to delight the audience and you know that you will have to join in. Their first CD as a trio (Like Minds) was released in 2017 and has had a great reception both in the UK and in the USA with many of the tracks being broadcast by a number of radio stations in the UK and abroad. With their informed understanding of their songs, fabulous harmonies, musicality, youthful exuberance and humour, they have been described as one of the most accomplished and entertaining acts currently on the folk circuit. Pete Dunne was born and erased in Bradford. He was an occasional and forgettable floor singer at the Topic, the Bradford Folk Club and other similar venues around the West Riding in the second half of the 60s. Like others of the time he served an apprenticeship in the songs and music of the likes of Tom Paley, Mike Seeger, Mike Heron, Tom Paxton, Bert Jansch etc. In the following decade he was drawn into a state of wage slavery in Lancashire and remained in that condition under a lifetime sentence. In 2014 he was released back into the wild and decided to take his revenge by singing again. He is now a semi-confused little old man who plays ragtimey fingerstyle guitar and sings made-up songs about thisery, thatery and inconsequential sideways glances on life that make him giggle a bit. He has recently been exposed at the Lancaster Folk Festival, the Lancaster Music Festival and plays at venues around Lancashire and the South Lakes.