Chris Leslie

Chris Leslie

10th October 2015

Lawns Hotel, Chellaston

Chris really does not need any introduction.......

He is a multi instrumentalist and singer-songwriter based in Oxfordshire UK, primarily well known for the past seventeen years for his work with legendary Fairport Convention.

He has played and recorded with, amongst others: Steve Ashley, the Albion Band, Jez Lowe, Ian Anderson, Chris While and Julie Matthews, Whippersnapper, Alan Stivell, Feast of Fiddles and St. Agnes Fountain. Chris has provided music for a number of Radio Four plays and classic serials.

His fiddle playing has also been heard on the TV series Heartbeat, Midsommer Murders and Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Scotland.

Chris plays: fiddle, mandolin, tenor guitar, bouzouki, ukulele, banjo, oud, whistle and Native American flute.

He has just released his fourth solo CD Origins.

We are delighted to welcome one of the most respected musicians in the world and a wonderful human being to Village Folk!