While & Matthews
Chris While & Julie Matthews are breathtaking singers, songwriters, musicians and performers whose dedication to their craft and audience knows no bounds. Internationally acclaimed, they remain a leading force on the UK's acoustic/roots arts circuit. Their songs cover life as they see it, from the industrial waste lands of the north, to injustice and freedom, matters of the heart and everything in between. Covered by many revered singers the world over, it is While & Matthews' musical partnership and obvious joy of performing together that really brings their songs to life. As performers they are unrivalled and their audiences leave their concerts having been through every emotion possible.
Julie plays; guitar, piano, bouzouki, mandolin & harmonica. Chris plays; guitar, bodhran, banjo, dulcimer & percussion.
While and Matthews founded Blue Tapestry to celebrate the music of Carole King and Joni Mitchell, working with Maartin Allcock, Pete Zorn and Neil Marshall, an extraordinarily talented band of musicians. They also team up with Chris Leslie and David Hughes each December to become St Agnes Fountain, giving Christmas Carols a breath of fresh air and a new groove.
Chris and Julie have five Duo albums and a songbook to their credit as well as several solo albums, Blue Tapestry and two St Agnes Fountain CDs. They also appear as the leading songwriters and singers on several Albion Band albums and on the much acclaimed Daphne's Flight, a project which also included Christine Collister, Helen Watson and Melanie Harrold.
