Sorry I typed out my list after a round trip of over 500 miles and missed out artists from my list Scan Tester (some unheard archive material), Niall Valleley, and a Zulu Squashbox recording,I will slap my wrist accordingly.
Thank you all for your comments and support.
We investigated originally Anglo Styles and the fact that all the artists included all have different and interesting styles but with styles where do you start and finish. Take English or Irish styles for example, I could fill up a double cd on both and never touch the surface.William Kimber for example has his own unique style but all his recordings a dedicated concertina player would have in his collection and what we did not want to do is assemble a collection that someone with a good record collection could put together in their front room.That is why we have tried to obtain new archive recordings that no one has heard before and new recordings that selected artists have recorded for us.WK was mentioned and discussed almost the first week of putting this collection together,then Rev Ken
and onwards.We have tried to take a new look at a concertina compilation records and just tried to get a mixture of the two.As Chris kindly says the quality of playing plus the mixture of different styles creates a lot of surprises and since Chris had his compilation, some awesome recordings have been received.We have also tried to give youth a chance, Regardt de Bruin (16 years old) and Kate McNamara (15 years old),both of which made me put my concertina back in its box and slam the lid down.
I am just sorry that of the World players I have invited to record, I could not have asked more and included W.K and many more artists no longer with us.All I can say is that the CDs certainly show the versatity of the Anglo.
Thanks again for your interest and comments.
Alan Day