Thumb-nail sketch:Jo Freya plays in frantically boisterous Ceilidh bands but I didn't know that when I purchased the beautifully tranquil TRADITIONAL SONGS album. Really, the adjective multi-talented needs to be sprinkled liberally on this web page 2 Jo has been saxaphone-playing member of Blowzabella and currently the Old Swan Band. Her Singing with sister Fi (The Fraser Sisters) is enchanting, and often they appear together at folk festivals.
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T I T L E | DATE | LABEL | REFERENCE | TYPE |
| TRADITIONAL SONGS OF ENGLAND | 1993 | Saydisc | CDSDL402 |  | |
 
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Seventy minutes of music and sixteen pages of lyrics and notes.
A really beautiful-sounding album, now re-issued ? I think the cover photo
has changed. Jo Freya voice, whistle, Fi Fraser harmony vocals, Paul Burgess violin, recorders, Flos Headford violin, Dave Townsend concertina, accordian, violin, Nigel Eaton hurdy-gurdy, Nick Hooper guitar, Kathryn Locke cello, Alison Crum, John Byrant, Elizabeth Liddle, Susanna Pell – treble, tenor, bass and great bass viols. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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T I T L E | DATE | LABEL | REFERENCE | TYPE |
| LUSH | - | NOMASTERS | NMCD5 | | |
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T I T L E | DATE | LABEL | REFERENCE | TYPE |
| THE FRASER SISTERS | 1998 | NOMASTERS | NMCD12 | | |
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Other Appearances
with Keith Kendrick on Home Ground 199? Fellside
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Jo Freya's saxophones add a hot jazzy tone to Blowzabella's work, which is basically bagpipe music keeping alive the old traditions of Flemish, Breton and Celtic music. Jo Freya's vocals on "La Belle C'est Endormir" are bittersweet, and the folk tunes are lively and never dated. They also extend the ancient into the future on cuts like "Bean field/Monster Cafe," eight minutes of electro- Breton rhythms played out on acoustic instruments.See : http://www.danceav.freeserve.co.uk/artists/artmain.htm
See Blowzabella – from Music Boulevard online music store.
ANNE BRIGGS | BERT LLOYD | CARA DILLON | CYRIL TAWNEY | DAVE & TONI ARTHUR | ELIZA CARTHY | FRANK PURSLOW | HILARY JAMES | JANE THRELFALL & CARL HOGSDEN | JO FREYA | JOHN GOODLUCK | JOHN PEARCE | JON SCAIFE & BOB BRAY | KATE RUSBY | KATHRYN ROBERTS | MARIANNE FAITHFULL | NANCY & SANDRA KERR | NIC JONES | PETER BELLAMY | SHIRLEY COLLINS | TONY ROSE | TREES | VIKKI CLAYTON | HOME | BALLADS | TIMELINE | LINKS | MAILFORM