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STOOKEY BLUE

Last updated: 07-07-2015
STOOKEY BLUE
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Basic Information

Area:
  • Norwich, Norfolk, Uk
Genre:
  • Folk
Active Years:
C2010 - Present

Musicians

Guitar: Fred Brown

Violin: Carly Stevens

Concertina: Linda Brown

Keys, Guitar: David Viner

Violin: Sara Helen Binney

Banjo, Guitar: Sarah Griggs-Smith

Violin, Mandolin: Sholto Lenaghan

Flute: Maria Bona

Accordian: Malle Payne

 

We are a band of no fixed numbers! Currently, the core consists of Carly Stevens (violin), Linda Brown (concertina), Fred Brown (guitar) and myself, David Viner (guitar/keyboards). The first three are all ex-Shufflewing. Stookey Blue arose out of the remains of Shufflewing (another folk/ceilidh band) after Shufflewing's original leader dropped out and refused to let the rest of the band retain the name (this was in 2010). The name comes from from a local delicacy - a cockle from Stiffkey, a village on the North Norfolk coast whose name is often pronounced 'Stookey' or 'Stewkey'. The cockle can have a blue tint to its colouring due to the mud in which it lives. We have regular weekly sessions on Monday evenings from 8:30pm at the Kings Arms, Hall Road to which anyone is welcome to come along and join in. [source David viner 2015]

 

The band's web site is: www.stookeyblue.co.uk

 

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