Dave Jolly
Melodeon, Concertina, Vocals
Dave has established a considerable reputation at festivals in England and France
for his unique interpretations of sea songs, shanties and traditional music.
Sometimes passionate, sometime humourous but always entertaining.
His other bands have included Guernsey shanty group Jenkins’ Ear, the English
dance band Stocai with Chris Walshaw and Cliff Stapleton, and the trio
Gentleman’s Relish. Recordings include two albums with Stocai and a well received
solo album “By Land And Sea”
Dave lives on the River Vilaine in Brittany.
Alan Lamb
Melodeon, fiddle and cello, vocals
Alan’s
discography
includes
two
albums
with
the
Late
Night
Band,
tracks
on
the
album
“English
Fiddle
Players”
and
albums
with
Cliff
Stapleton,
Rod
Stradling,
Agnes
Burnell,
Chris
Wood
and
Andy
Turner.
He
also
features
in
the
Anglo/French
melodeon
tune
book
“Liasons
Diatoniques” along with Andy Cutting, Marc Peron, Frederic Paris and Bruno le Tron.
Most
recently
he
has
played
with
Boldwood
and
can
be
seen
in
a
periwig
playing
dance
music for the BBC’s epic Cornish series “Poldark”.
Alan
was
born
in
Ireland
and
as
a
young
man
farmed
and
dredged
for
oysters
on
the
west
coast of Galway. The family has had a fiddle player in every generation back to 1740.
Alan lives on the river Severn.
The
Sea Band
Penny McCarthy
Clarinet, Vocals, Renaissance Recorders, Euphonium, Vocals,
Penny started playing traditional music on the clarinet with her family as a girl, touring in
England, France and Belgium. A period at the University of Rennes and membership of the
Circle Celtique de Rennes led to an interest in Breton traditional music and Penny also
collected many tunes from old players in the Vendee and Auvergne in the 1970s.
In conjunction with Folk South West Penny founded Live Wires, a community music project
working with young musicians in the West Country to raise the profile of musical traditions
in the region.
Penny is originally from the port city of Liverpool.
To contact The Sea Band phone Alan on 07815605540 or email info@theseaband.co.uk
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Richard Heacock
Fiddle, Vocals
A founder member of Boldwood, Richard played fiddle and viola on their album
“Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now,” and with The Warleggan Village Band, on their album
“Haste to the Dance”. Richard can be seen playing dance music with Alan for the
BBC’s epic Cornish series “Poldark”. Other ventures have included a regular duo at
Halsway Manor with Paul Hutchinson and the Anglo Breton Dance Band The Andro Sisters.
As a composer he has worked extensively for the BBC and hwritten music for The National
Theatre. He wrote the music for Tony Robinson's "The Worst Jobs in History"! (Channel 4)
The Sea Band’s musicians
live on two of Europe’s great rivers,
the Severn in Western England
and the Vilaine in Brittany.
