In this episode, custodian of the Two Rivers Cafe Andrew Fisher sits down across a virtual table to talk with Drew Crawford. Drew is many things, not least a very nice man, but he's also a UK-based Australian composer, producer, sound-designer, songwriter and educator. His work spans opera, theatre, dance, pop, cabaret, installation, sound design, radio, tv, film, the concert hall, and digital platforms. (Thank you Drew's website).

Andrew and Danny shoot the breeze and then set about cooking-up a new composition together in their laboratory of good sounds. The results are sub-atomically awesome.

Thanks also to Kit Orton for lending his silky vocals to serve as catalyst in this potent concoction.

You can read more about Drew on his website.

You can prod, poke and explore Andrew Fisher and his creative work as a composer here:

https://andrewfishermusic.com/

The Two Rivers Café podcast began in September 2021 featuring a pleasing jumble of dizzyingly talented guests. You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It publishes new episodes rarely but when it does the results are generally pleasing.

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The Two Rivers Café is produced by Jim and Rupert of Driver 8 Studios.

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In this episode, host Andrew Fisher throws open the doors of The Two Rivers Cafe to folk musician and all-round good egg Danny Pedler. Expert player of both the hurdy gurdy and accordion, Danny is a mainstay on the UK folk scene playing as 50% of Pedler Russell and as one third of Tarren. Go and see them live if you can!

https://pedlerrussell.com/home

https://tarrenmusic.com/home

Here's a video of Danny playing with Tarren bandmate Sid Goldsmith for Matthew Bannister's "Folk on Foot" charity walk in Summer 2023: https://youtu.be/uRiprsGy-M4?si=7DAIFLy1abiEOC9W

Please explore Andrew Fisher and his creative work as a composer here:

https://andrewfishermusic.com/

The Two Rivers Café podcast began in September 2021 featuring a starscape of dizzyingly talented guests. You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

And you can follow us on instagram @two_rivers_cafe_pod

The Two Rivers Café is produced by Jim and Rupert of Driver 8 Studios.

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New for 2022! It’s (another) special Christmas edition of the Two Rivers Café.

Following last year’s debacle, this year producers Jim and Rupert successfully managed to deliver a Christmas lyric each to host and composer Andrew Fisher. And he worked some musical magic with them both.

The Two Rivers Café will return for a brand-new series of collaborations in 2023!

Read more about Andrew’s work as a composer at www.andrewfishermusic.com

Make a Christmas donation to a worthy cause here: https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/

Happy Christmas

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Happy Christmas from The Two Rivers Café Podcast!

We had a plan for an exciting festive collaboration but it didn't quite work out as we hoped.

Thanks to host Andrew Fisher for saving the day.

Find out more about Andrew's Christmas musical Gabriel here: https://andrewfishermusic.com/musical-theatre-writer/gabriel/

And more about Andrew's work as a composer here: https://andrewfishermusic.com/

Make a Christmas donation to a worthy cause here: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/donate/a/donate/#step1

Or here: https://donation.macmillan.org.uk/

THE TWO RIVERS CAFE PODCAST WILL RETURN IN 2022

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Do you remember those sit com episodes that were essentially just clips of previous episodes stuck together and then passed off as new content? Well, welcome to this special edition of The Two Rivers Café which tries to pull a fast one in exactly the same way.

But this isn't some massive fraud we're committing on your ears, this is the chance to hear all of the wonderful music from Series One of the podcast in one easily-digestible episode. PLUS! Host and co-creator of each piece of music, Andrew Fisher, gives you his thoughts on each one and provides a few insights as to their creation. No spoilers but let's just say he's pretty happy. Which makes a nice change. (This is a joke. Andrew is one the jolliest men you could meet).

It's all very lovely and certainly worth thirty minutes of anyone's time but especially yours.

And with your appetite whetted, please do help yourself to the original episodes from Series One which are available from exactly the same place that you found this one.

Find out more about Andrew Fisher and his creative work as a composer here:

https://andrewfishermusic.com/ 

Season One of The Two Rivers Café podcast began in September 2021, with a new episode most Wednesdays, featuring an eclectic range of uniquely talented guests from every musical walk of life. You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

Season Two of The Two Rivers Café podcast will begin in early 2022.

And you can follow us and the conversation on Twitter @2RiversCafePod and Instagram @two_rivers_cafe_pod

The Two Rivers Café is produced by Jim and Rupert of Driver 8 Studios

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Salut!

For this final episode in the first series of The Two Rivers Café Podcast we are in Brittany where guest Helen Gentile is playing the bombard. Or bombarde. (With an “e” in French, without an “e” in English). Or “talabard” in Breton.

Anyway, whatever you call it, Helen is very good at playing it and is even polite enough to laugh when host Andrew Fisher says that “it sounds a bit like a duck”.

Following an interesting conversation about how Helen ended up with the bombarde in her life, she and Andy collaborate on what can only be described as a formidable piece of music. Seriously, if this isn’t picked up by Netflix for the soundtrack to some sort of medieval frolic of a miniseries then something’s gone very wrong.

Helen’s current musical projects include 8-piece ceilidh band Threepenny Bit, 4-piece folk band Monkey See Monkey Do and a duo with fiddle player Lewis Wood.

Over the past 10 years, Threepenny Bit have released multiple albums, played at major festivals such as Sidmouth and Cambridge and have also been played on BBC Radio 2.

Monkey See Monkey Do have enjoyed reviews from established voices of the folk scene such as Mike Harding and Songlines and were booked for some reputable festivals last summer, including supporting Steve Harley at the South Downs Folk Festival. Meanwhile,

Helen’s duo with Lewis Wood is an exciting delve into balfolk repertoire which is manifested in their lockdown release ‘Alors, on danse!’

Links to Helen’s musical projects below:

Threepenny Bit: www.threepennybit.com

Monkey See Monkey Do: www.thatmonkeyband.co.uk

Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood: www.gentileandwood.wordpress.com

Helen also teaches woodwind (clarinet, flute, saxophone) although she doesn’t have any students for the bombarde… yet!!

Link to Helen’s teaching website below: Southampton Woodwind Academy: www.woodwindacademy.co.uk

Find out more about Andrew Fisher and his creative work as a composer here:

https://andrewfishermusic.com/ 

Season One of The Two Rivers Café podcast began in September 2021, with a new episode most Wednesdays, featuring an eclectic range of uniquely talented guests from every musical walk of life. You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

And you can follow us and the conversation on Twitter @2RiversCafePod and Instagram @two_rivers_cafe_pod

The Two Rivers Café is produced by Jim and Rupert of Driver 8 Studios

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Normally, people who wear sunglasses indoors are either Bono or just plain wrong (and you really don’t want to be any of these things) but for one week only composer, lyrist and handsome patron of The Two Rivers Café Dr. Andrew Fisher is giving you permission.

Why? Is he mad?

No, he’s jazz.

This week we’re delighted to welcome pianist, composer and all-round jazz supremo J Fashole-Luke to the Two Rivers Café and sunglasses are obligatory.

J has performed all over Europe at Festivals (including Montreaux, Vienne, North Sea and Vienna Jazz Festivals and in UK at Glastonbury, Bestival, Boomtown, Shambala and Isle Of Wight Festivals), He has accompanied members of Jurassic 5, Sugar Hill Gang, Tomorrow’s Warriors and All Saints. He played at The Millenium Dome in its opening year, and has also appeared at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and performed live on BBC2s Later With Jools Holland. Most recently he has been working with Chart topping UK vocalist Alexandra Burke and TV sensation Tallia Storm

There’s conversation and there’s music as Andrew and J collaborate a brand-spanking-new piece of work that they share towards the end of the episode.

Here are some links to all manner of J-F-L content:

YouTube - https://youtube.com/channel/UCzSHlOZKtNqqEXZA1s72y0w

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jayefel/?hl=en

Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/jfasholeluke/

Website - http://goldengroove.co.uk/jonathanfasholeluke

Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/artist/jayefel/999714

You can read more about all things Andrew Fisher via: https://andrewfishermusic.com/

Season One of The Two Rivers Café podcast began in September 2021, with a new episode each Wednesday, featuring an eclectic range of uniquely talented guests from every musical walk of life. You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

And you can follow us and the conversation on Twitter @2RiversCafePod and Instagram @two_rivers_cafe_pod where you find a photo of the chord-sequence-napkin discussed in the episode.

The Two Rivers Café is produced by Jim and Rupert of Driver 8 Studios

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Knock knock! Who’s there?

It’s the podcast postman come to deliver the latest episode of The Two Rivers Café Podcast hosted by composer and lyricist Andrew Fisher, known to his friends as Andy. And to his enemies as Andy Grrrrr Andy.

In this episode Andy talks to Elizabeth Kenny, one of Europe’s most renowned lute players.

But first he needs to find out what we actually mean by a lute.

Answer: there’s no such thing as a lute. There are lutes.

Liz and Andy then discuss improvisation, learning and playing before collaborating on a brand-new musical piece that incorporates bits of Purcell mixed with music from video games and jazz. If that sounds a bit strange then you’re right, it is a bit strange but it’s also epic. And brilliant.

You can hear the piece towards the end of the episode.

In her illustrious career so far, Elizabeth has played with Les Arts Florissants and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, made critically acclaimed recordings of Lawes, Purcell and Dowland, and regularly collaborates with singers such as Robin Blaze, Ian Bostridge and Nicholas Mulroy. 

You can find out more by following the links below:

Elizabeth’s website: https://elizabethkenny.co.uk/

Via her agents: https://www.rayfieldallied.com/artists/elizabeth-kenny

Linn records https://www.linnrecords.com/artist-elizabeth-kenny

Hyperion records https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/find.asp?f=Elizabeth+Kenny

Royal Academy of Music https://www.ram.ac.uk/people/elizabeth-kenny

Elizabeth is on Twitter @liz67kenny

And Facebook as Elizabeth Kenny

You can read more about all things Andrew Fisher via: https://andrewfishermusic.com/

Season One of The Two Rivers Café podcast began in September 2021, with a new episode each Wednesday, featuring an eclectic range of uniquely talented guests from every musical walk of life. You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

And you can follow us and the conversation on Twitter @2RiversCafePod and Instagram @two_rivers_cafe_pod

The Two Rivers Café is produced by Jim and Rupert of Driver 8 Studios

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-two-rivers-cafe-podcast.

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