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Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends

The Fisherman's Friends can usually be heard singing on Friday evenings throughout the summer on the Platt in wonderful Port Isaac. The Fisherman's Friends are John, Julian and Jeremy Brown, Trevor Grills, John Lethbridge, Billy Hawkins, Nigel Sherratt, Peter Rowe, John McDonnell and Jon Cleave. The Fisherman's Friends, from Port Isaac on the North Cornwall coast, have secured a deal – said to be worth £1 million – with Universal, the company behind acts such as Lady Gaga, Take That and Amy Winehouse

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dalla

There are at least two artists/groups called "dalla" This is the Cornish Dalla 1. The opera singer Lucio Dalla. 2. The Cornish folk music ensemble, Dalla, consisting of Neil Davey on bouzouki, mandolin, and fiddle; Hilary Coleman on clarinets and vocals; Bec Applebee on vocals and percussion and Steve Hunt on guitar and vocals. They use acoustic intrumentation to perform traditional and contemporary Cornish folk songs in an original fashion. For more information see dalla.co.uk .

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Jon Mills

There is more than one artist under the name of Jon Mills; 1) Singer-songwriter from Tunbridge Wells. 2) Banjo player with the Old Lone Gin Band in the Dover area. Bands that he has previously played with include Rainmaker (bluegrass band), Travel by Steam (ceilidh band), Five Bar Gate (ceilidh band), Tony Joe Marshall & Crowbait (country music band), and the Marshall-Mills Duo. He is also recorded on albums of Cornish music with Merv Davey (Pyba, and Forth an Syns), and on an album with Cornish songwriter, Graham Sandercock (Pol Pri).

Threepenny Bit

A young and vibrant addition to the folk scene, Threepenny Bit folk and ceilidh band was formed from an unlikely combination of student-types in Southampton in 2010. Consisting of suitcase percussion, fiddle, flute, guitar and clarinet, they play a wide range of Irish, English, Cornish, Breton and Scottish diddly-dee music with a hint of klezmer! Threepenny Bit set the trend for “Half Price Busking” in the Summer of 2010, when they embarked upon a busking campaign to spread folk music to the four corners of Southern England.

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