More than two decades on the road. 25 album releases. 2 Honorary Doctorates, 3 BBC Folk Awards, 4 Royal Albert Hall sell-outs. Tours in 14 countries from America to Australia.
Show of Hands have unequivocally become one of the leading forces in British folk. Steve Knightley and Phil Beer are respectively recognised as one of the UK’s best singer songwriters and one of its finest instrumentalists.
Without frills or fanfares they have carved a unique niche built on a carefully constructed cottage industry and become one of the most in-demand bands on the circuit.
An alchemist couldn’t have come up with a more potent, magical mix than that of Phil Beer, who can, as The Scotsman observed, “play nearly every stringed instrument known to man” and the inspired Steve Knightley, described by broadcaster Mike Harding as “one of England’s greatest singer songwriters”.
Two of the most popular ambassadors for acoustic music, their music loses nothing in translation and they have taken it all over the world, from Australia to India, Germany to Canada, the Netherlands to Hong Kong plus key festival appearances including Glastonbury, WOMAD, Cambridge and Celtic Connections.
Show of Hands are undeniably one of the strongest current forces in acoustic music – England’s finest and most popular roots duo and something of a “people’s band”. Formidable operators in the roots arena. A class act - The Independent
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Selected Events We've Visited
Burgess Hill Gets Active 2011 Local sports teams and fitness groups got together at St Johns Park in order to showcase themselves to the public. We have lots of pictures from the event
Christmas Fair 2007 With invites lost in the post, would enough people be involved to make the Christmas Fair a worthwhile event?
Bonfire Night 2005 Did the various musial groups
play anything other than the Flintstone's
theme tune? Find out in our review of
the 2005 Bonfire Night!
Skate Jam 2005 Skate
Fest returned for 2005 with a new name
and a slightly different format which
made for a much more lively and entertaining
event.
