Yes, he once of the Incredible String Band of our long- lost youth... last night in Matlock (Derbyshire UK). A little older than when I last saw him (in about 1972), but still full of invention, he's turned to story telling in, as he puts it, the Bardic Tradition, which he readily admist no one knows anything about so he's free to make it up. He accompanies the stories superbly on the clarsach, with haunting, wandering tunes reminiscent if the ISB, that weave into the words of the stories with hypnotic effect. With little

How he keeps the musical and story threads going through two full-hour sets, how his voice holds up- all impressive in themselves. But the stories, high Irish tales of Finn and Naoimh and the rest, Scottish stories of the Black Thief, Welsh tales from the Mabinogion, Norse stories of Odin and Loki, interspersed with traditional songs, poems, music hall somgs, his own songs, and little side stories of less grand character, all seamlessly and naturally, left me feeling the evening was all too short.

A great performenace by a lovely bloke, I hope you're lucky enough to find him near you.