Kathryn Wheeler

I love coming up with new tunes for 20 button anglo concertina!  It's been my favourite thing, since I took it up in April 2020.  I'm putting them up on YouTube as I record them:

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfaF1wA2EZagdS7E8i3ixw/featured

Kathryn is a multi-instrumentalist who loves to create, explore, jam, improvise and harmonise. Especially unexpected stuff - synthpop on concertina, tango on taborpipe! Grew up with 80s pop and synth, playing film/TV themes on electronic organ. Accordions are just keyboards that don’t need plugging in! Done everything from punk to pop on accordion, fiddle and three-part vocals with Way Out West, everywhere from a burlesque club to a sailing boat. Played a bard of old, fostering community through song - as crew for LARP events. Set poets’ work to music but too shy to sing it! Sung backing for blues, spent hours doing session work for singer songwriters, improvising accompaniments. Played for fairy festivals and Tolkien celebrations with Tinkerscuss. Enjoyed the echo in cathedral cloisters and castles busking 17thc or medieval. Broke out into 1940s jazz in the middle of a folk set. Accompanied troubadour music. Snook in some Britney Spears on an ancient harpsichord 😛