The House of Plank have a fundraiser concert on March 21st at Helsby ex-Servicemen’s Club, featuring The Helsby Young Bluegrass Stars.
Regulars to Sore Fingers Week will know that sense of awe you get when watching the latest clutch of amazingly talented young musicians sent down to the event from Cheshire and its environs by the [...]
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HOP fundraiser
March 10th, 2009
Johnny sows the bluegrass seeds
March 3rd, 2009
Bryn Williams, a.k.a. the ebullient Johnny Plank, has launched a new banjo magazine.
Intended as a quirky British answer to the long-running Banjo Newsletter, Bluegrass Seeds Banjo Magazine is an eclectic collection of interviews, anecdotes and instructional material, with some humour thrown in for good measure. Fans of the HOP will doubtless recognise the style.
There’s an [...]
Interview: The House of Plank
February 9th, 2007
The village of Helsby in Cheshire is considered to be the bluegrass capital of Great Britain. With regular workshops, sessions and gigs it is a veritable hotbed of bluegrass and acoustic music centred around the famous “House of Plank”, run by Bryn Williams and his family. We spoke to Bryn about the Helsby scene and [...]
