The Folk Song Society is pleased to present a house concert with Dick Holdstock & Allan Macleod, singers of traditional British isles folk music.
Allan Macleod and Dick Holdstock have performed together for more than twenty years. Their performances reflect the rapport and polish that two performers can achieve only after working together for a good many years. Everyone can tell they truly enjoy performing together.
An evening of music, Holdstock and Macleod style, is filled with the richness of the music of their Scottish and English roots. The songs they sing tell more clearly than any history book what the people were thinking and feeling at the time. Whether they are singing of the beauties of the countryside or the horrors of war, Holdstock and Macleod are able to totally involve their audiences with the experience. They have perfected the knack of achieving audience participation and manage to get the audience to sing along wherever they perform.
Dick Holdstock emigrated to California from his native Sittingbourne, Kent, in the south of England, with his parents and two brothers. It didn't take long before he fell in love with American country music. As news of the British folk music revival slipped through to expatriated Dick, he started to sing more and more of the songs from his roots. As a solo performer he developed a reputation as a shanty singer at sea festivals up and down the west coast of the U.S. and Canada.
In the mid-sixties Allan Macleod came to the United states from Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland. He brought with him some wonderful experiences from the early days of the British folk song revival. Singing under the critical eye of Ewan MacColl and Bert Loyd in London. He was also closely associated with Scotland's singing Fisher family.
Dick met Allan at the 1975 Santa Rosa Folk Festival where they were both doing solo gigs. From that point on, they have developed a lasting friendship and musical partnership.
These recordings are self produced, and available from them.
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