TWO leading interpreters of traditional English music and song – guitarist Martin Carthy and squeezebox player John Kirkpatrick – perform together in Reeth next weekend.

For more than 40 years, Martin Carthy, a BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award winner, has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures.

His skill, stage presence and charm have won him many admirers.

John Kirkpatrick is one of the most prolific figures on the English folk scene, performing solo, in duos, acoustic groups and electric bands, and has established a reputation as an instrumental virtuoso on melodeon, Anglo concertina and button accordion.

He has been a member of the Albion Country Band, Magic Lantern, The Richard Thompson Band, Umps and Dumps, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, Trans-Europe Diatonique, and Band of Hope, as well as many ceilidh bands, and is known to many for his appearances on BBC’s Victorian Farm.

The concert is in Reeth Memorial Hall at 8pm next Friday, February 24. Tickets are £16 in advance, £18 at the door, under-16s half-price.

Tickets are on sale at Reeth post office, from John Little on 01748-884759 or visit www.reethmemorialhall.co.uk.