Mike Wilson & Damien Barber

This will be Damien and Mike's third visit to the club (fifth in the case of Mike if you include his two trips down South with the rest of his Wilson siblings). Their big personalities and big voices fill the room and they have gone down a storm on each occasion. They are two of the finest exponents of traditional song in the United Kingdom with a combined 40+ years experience of performing at folk venues.

Raised in Norfolk and heavily influenced by such earlier Norfolk singers as Walter Pardon and Peter Bellamy, Damien is a stylish and distinctive singer, either unaccompanied or using guitar or concertina. Though he has lived for a long time in West Yorkshire he retains a strong East Anglian identity.

Mike Wilson is the youngest member of the Wilson Family, the powerful Teesside singing siblings who have raised the rafters at many a festival or folk club event. His musical heritage is emphatically that of the North East – rural and industrial folk song both traditional and modern.

Damien and Mike have a rich shared repertoire of traditional songs plus the work of modern folk writers such as Bellamy, Ewan MacColl and Mike Waterson.