scoopet Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) Does anybody have any information on the English concertina player Tom jukes please? Edited January 20, 2022 by scoopet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Day Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Tom Jukes, his history and his playing is featured on English International. A regular visitor to the ICA meetings in London. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopet Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) Thanks Al, can you tell me what it says about him please . Edited January 21, 2022 by scoopet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Davies Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Tom Dukes was a great friend of Harry Hatton of Haydock,Lancashire a great concertina enthusiast and member of the ICA.I played with Harry Hatton( and with others) on weekly basis at his home and in local pubs for many years.I was then mainly an English player.Tom Dukes when I knew him was living in Wrexham and visited Harry Hatton regularly and gave me informal lessons.I think he had been a member of the Kensington Concertina Orchestra.I have photographs of him which I will try to post.I also think I may have some arrangements by him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopet Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Thanks Mark ....that would be fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Day Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 6 hours ago, Mark Davies said: Tom Dukes was a great friend of Harry Hatton of Haydock,Lancashire a great concertina enthusiast and member of the ICA.I played with Harry Hatton( and with others) on weekly basis at his home and in local pubs for many years.I was then mainly an English player.Tom Dukes when I knew him was living in Wrexham and visited Harry Hatton regularly and gave me informal lessons.I think he had been a member of the Kensington Concertina Orchestra.I have photographs of him which I will try to post.I also think I may have some arrangements by him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Day Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Just now, Alan Day said: Hallo Mark ,Nice to hear from you. He was a member of the Kensington Concertina Band and I am almost certain that the band is one of the tracks on young Maurice Harvey recordings on the Duet Section featured on this site. I think he had a very rare English Concertina. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Alan Day said: I think he had a very rare English Concertina. I seem to recall an amboyna-wood Edeophone, made by Crabb's... (But it is 50 years ago.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Hersh Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 (edited) 16 hours ago, scoopet said: Thanks Al, can you tell me what it says about him please . Here's what the English International booklet says: "Tom was from South Shields in Tyneside and in his younger days played in the South Shields Concertina Band when it won the Belle Vue (Manchester) band competition in 1921. He was a regular attendee at the London ICA meetings." There are many references to him on the ICA website in the archived newsletters: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aconcertina.org+Tom+Jukes&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS756US756&oq=site%3Aconcertina.org+Tom+Jukes There is more info about him in this old thread, in case you haven't already seen it: Edited January 22, 2022 by Daniel Hersh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopet Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Thanks Daniel...much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 14 hours ago, Stephen Chambers said: I seem to recall an amboyna-wood Edeophone, made by Crabb's... (But it is 50 years ago.) I met Tom Jukes onetime, when Jim Harvey took me to Alf Edwards' basement flat in Kensington for a rehearsal of the Kensington Group/Quartet. They played beautifully together, and one of them (i think it was Tom) had an instrument such as I've described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Davies Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 We are both very old Stephen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 18 minutes ago, Mark Davies said: We are both very old Stephen! Don't remind me Mark, I had a hospital appointment yesterday, and we're getting older! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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