Jason Titley:
Jason has been playing music all his life, first as a drummer, then a double
bass player and now guitar and mandolin with a few others here and there. He
first started playing in bands at the age of eight in his Dad's band playing
drums. When he was refused entry into pubs for being under age, the band
refused to play "without thier drummer".
Since playing guitar, he has become known as one of the country's finest
flatpickers. As a founder member of the Daily Planet, he toured Europe and the
USA and produced two albums. He has played such festivals as Cambridge
Folk Festival, Telluride Festival in the USA, Shetland Folk Festival and Sidmouth
as well as a couple of appearences at Glastonbury, not to mention a BBC Radio
2 session a few TV spots and a stint in Stratford with the Royal Shakespear
Company.
Paul Bienek:
Paul Bienek is the banjo player with the illustrious band, Rabbi John.
His first experience of banjo music came from watching Sesame Street on
Saturday mornings as a child. His main influences include Earl Scruggs, Don
Reno and Eddie Adcock, he also especially likes the clawhammer banjo of the
little known, Reed Martin. His ambitions are to keep playing with Rabbi John
and to write a tune that every banjo player wants to play.
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His credits include: appearing on the Generation Game and playing the
Millennium Dome.
Becky Dellow:
Becky Dellow is a fiddle player who took up fiddle in her early years because
she couldnt blow a trumpet. With Irish, Welsh and English in her blood, she
has developed her own style of Irish, English and American folk music with the
unstoppable speed and energy of her mind and voice.
Beckys classical training and music degree at Nottingham University hasnt
hampered her individual style in fact the rigidity of classical music only made
her more determined to break free.
Several children and jobs later, Becky now runs a fiddle and folk shop online
while teaching fiddle and playing in a duo with guitarist Jeff Gillett as well as
with Rabbi John.
Duncan Kingston:
Duncan started out playing bass guitar in the local South West jazz circuit and
has developed into a player for all occasions! Mostly playing double bass with
Rabbi John, but dont be surprised if the fretless bass guitar comes out, or even
the infamous rubber-stringed ashbory..
Recent projects have included SUUF (Anglo-Senegalese
collaboration) ,guitarists Innes Sibun and Alex Hutchings, keyboard supremo
John-paul Gard, and Colin Tullys celtic-jazzers Sensorium (as well as the Daily
Planet where he met Jason Titley)