A new Bad Penny for this week’s shows!

Jez and the band welcome piper and whistle player Becky Taylor to their ranks for gigs this weekend at Bury St. Edmunds and Bury Lancashire, while regular piper Andy May is away on tour with his other band Baltic Crossing. Becky, who plays one set of pipes made by Andy in fact, is someone that Jez has known for many years. She’ll be a regular though occasional member of the band for the foreseeable future, as Andy has duties elsewhere, much the same as fiddler Hinny Pawsey has become a regular addition to the group when needed and available (Hinny plays with the band on their track on the new Judy Small tribute CD by the way.) Becky plays Irish pipes as well as Northumbrian, and audiences in the south of England will get their first chance to hear the line up at the King’s Place concert in London on May 3rd, a gig which is rapidly shaping up to becoming a night to remember!