2pm, Sunday 10th June, 2007; Littlebourne, near Canterbury, Kent:   

Tommy Peoples will hold an afternoon fiddle workshop at the excellent Littlebourne Thatched Barn , near Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1TU

Tommy Peoples is, quite simply, a living legend, the greatest exponent of the driving Donegal style which is his hallmark.   Tommy Peoples was an early member of the Bothy Band, and has recorded numerous CDs (discography: a, b). His remarkable self-produced CD " The Quiet Glen" (1998) earned him Ireland's highest accolade as "Traditional Musician of the Year", the first person to be so honored by the Irish Government. Catharine Kingcome, who has painted many Irish musicians in addition to a picture about Tommy, and is a fiddler herself, says of Tommy : "in my opinion probably the best trad Irish fiddle player there's ever been". For myself, I hear a complexity and detail in his playing that I have not heard elsewhere. In spite of this he is an intensely modest man.
   
Tickets: £20 01227 721 736 , 07875 170 593.   Kent Folk, G17 Canterbury Enterprise Hub, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent. CT2 7NJ   www.kentfolk.com/tickets      Info:    www.kentfolk.com/FiddlersVarious/