Jed Stone and Des Tighe are names well known around the folk clubs and sessions of their Suffolk homeland. They both have been visitors to FolkStation over the past few years but this is the first time we’ve had the opportunity to put them on stage.
They are a singing duo specialising in the Folk, Shanty and Sea Song traditions and have sung together as a duo for two years. Before that they were founder members of the Shanty Crew XXLsior, a shanty crew put together to support the sail training trawler Excelsior. Both have performed often in Holland, now and again in Poland, Ireland and once in Norway.
As solo performers, each has travelled extensively the shores and bars of their native England, of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Both had appeared on albums with various bands over the years, and their first CD as XXLsior (Out of The Mists) was produced in aid of the Excelsior trust, the second, (Surf and Turf) was very much an "As we are" commercial C.D.
We hope they will be leading a terrific session of Sea Shanties for us this year.
http://www.shadowsintheshadefolksong.com/
