The Cherry Pickers comprise 5 musicians who play Americana, Electric Folk, Country, Jazz and the Blues. They have been playing for 8 years and are based in Hexham. Between them they play double bass, fiddle, mandolin, concertina, harmonica, Cajun box, melodeon, accordion, bass, banjo and guitar, banjolele, steel uke, washboard, spoons, kazoo, tamborine and voices. They will perform their own material as well as doing arrangements of other songs.

They regularly play gigs in the Tyne Valley and have played at Maddy Prior’s Stepping Stones Festival in Cumbria, opened the Corbridge Festival and played at the Tall Ships at Blyth. We regularly play at the Red Cross Open Gardens and at public and private events. They have released 3CDs.

Band members are: Jane Ball, Jan Croot, Bob Diehl, Stephen Fry, Penny Grennan, with visits from Dave Venus.

Links to the cherry Pickers web site and facebook page can be found below.  

thecherrypickers.tumblr.com 

 www.facebook.com/CherryPickersHexham/

Sound cloud: The Cherry Pickers. England/UK

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