Garry Blakeley

www.garryblakeley.co.uk
www.beautifulbowsandviolins.com



If you would like details of gigs listed on this page, please contact me (garryblakeley@aol.com) and I will be happy to forward you any information that you may require.  Always check with venues before travelling long distances!!

2025 Diary Dates: 
Jan  10th  Garry & Bear  Jenny Lind  (Sundowners) 5.30pm
Jan  12th  Garry & Bear  Brickmakers Arms  Bexhill  3.00pm - 5.30pm
Jan  26th  Garry & Bear  Burns Night  Jenny Miller
Jan  31st  Garry & Bear  The Plough West Hill from 8.30pm
Feb  21st  Garry & Bear  Dolphin  7.30pm - 9.30pm
Mar  01st  Llama Legs -  Private Party (Brendan)
Mar  16th  Llama Legs -  Royal Oak Pett  from 4.30pm
Mar  17th  Llama Legs    The Albion - Paddy's Day  9.00pm - 11.00pm
Mar  21st  Garry & Bear  Jenny Lind - from 8.30pm
Mar  23rd  Llama Legs -  Queen's Head Icklesham  4.00pm - 6.00pm


FEAST OF FIDDLES TOUR
Apr   07  Nettlebed Village Club                 01628 636620
Apr   08  Exeter Corn Exchange                01392 665938
Apr   09  Cardiff The Gate                          029 2048 3344
Apr   10  Worcester Huntingdon Hall          01905 611427
Apr   11  Lowdham Village Hall                  01159 653514
Apr   12  Hastings Pheonix Arts                 07970 010002  BUY TCKTS NOW ONLINE 
Apr   14  Sevenoaks The Stag                   01732 450175
Apr   15  Emsworth St. James Church       01243 379501
Apr   16  Spa Centre Leamington Spa       01926 334418
Apr   17  Bury St. Edmunds The Apex       01284 758000
Apr   18  Tewkesbury Roses Theatre         01684 295074
Apr   19  Milton Keynes The Stables          01908 2808005
May  4th  Feast Of Fiddles   Rochester Sweeps Festival
May  5th  Garry & Bear  JITG  West Hill  from 12 noon
May  9th  Garry & Bear  Dolphin  7.30pm - 9.30pm
May  11th  Garry & Bear  Fairlight Cove  6.00pm - 8.00pm
May  18th  Garry & Bear  Rye Waterworks Micro Pub from 3.00pm
May  25th  Llama Legs   Jenny Lind  from 4.00pm
May  26th  Garry & Bear  Beer Festival  Beckley
July  13th  Garry with Rocking Reg Layfields Rye  3.00pm - 5.00pm
July  13th  Llama legs  FILO  7.00pm
Aug  29th Garry & Bear  Dolphin  7.30pm - 9.30pm
Nov  22nd  Llama Legs  New Beach Club  Pett  from 7.30pm
Dec  5th  Garry & Bear  Dolphin  7.30pm - 9.30pm
Dec  13th  Christms Fair Bexhill  11.00am

THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR

The Wheel of the Year is a truly fabulous and unique celebration of the annual cycle. It takes you on a passionate and exciting journey through the passages of history, whilst inviting you to experience the many magical festivals and traditions of the passing seasons.
The superb lyrics of Rose Blakeley are highly descriptive and are brought to life by the powerful and atmospheric music of Garry Blakeley (Feast of Fiddles). His stunning compositions are a beautiful combination of folk rock arrangements, slow airs and driving traditional tunes, which weave in and out of the rich, evocative narration of selected poetry and stories by Jane Downes (The Catsfield Steamers)

The Wheel of the Year also features some of the highlights of  The Ceremony of May our successful and well-loved tribute to May Day and the famous Jack-in-the-Green
This is an incredible production, which will totally enthral you and steal you away to a place of enchantment and imagination!


COME AND EXPERIENCE THE FEAST OF FIDDLES SHOW - you will not regret it !

Feast of Fiddles is a musical entertainment like no other – six of the UK’s finest fiddle players in a band of 11 which includes Dave Mattacks – the grandfather of folk rock drumming. Peter Knight of Steeleye Span, Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention, Brian McNeill, Ian Cutler, Tom Leary and Garry Blakeley bring their own individual styles together to visit many musical genres in a show that has a wide dynamic range and will have you dancing in the aisles and perhaps even shedding a tear. The 2013 tour is the band’s 20th annual outing and the critical acclaim gets louder every year. Bring even your sceptical friends, they won’t be disappointed.

“Absolutely awesome!” – Sue Marchant, BBC East

“Feast of Fiddles is far more than half-a-dozen of
Britain’s most talented exponents of the instrument.
It’s a joyous two hours of excellence and
exuberance.” Get Rhythm

“Your imaginative programme was riveting from start to finish.  I relished the brilliance of tone colours in all sections; the violins soaring away, like the spring in the bow of an arrow, on an effortless flight path in perfect unison – like the first violins of a very great symphony orchestra – yet better, because of your innate musicianship, conductor-less craft, rhythm and palpable love of the many genres of music making you had to offer.   You are seriously all great musicians.”
David Fanshawe – African Sanctus