Frank Underwood / Austentation / The Hex Collective - Sat 4th Sep 2021
Date: Saturday 4th September 2021
Boat: Progress
BIO
Frank Underwood / Austentaion
Joining us on the first leg of our journey, from Elizabeth Jennings Way bridge in Jericho, heading into Oxford and back to the Elizabeth Jennings Way bridge are Frank Underwood and Austentation.
Frank Underwood learned classical piano as a boy, and classical guitar in his teens, delving also into harpsichord and organ. In more recent times he has studied lute with Lynda Sayce and Edward FitzGibbon, and viol with Susanne Heinrich.
Over the last thirty years he played with various Folk Rock and Blues bands, sharing the stage on occasion with Fairport Convention. In the late '70s he formed WINDSONG with a young Annie Lennox as vocalist, and had a long musical partnership with fiddler Dave Mortlock as MORTLOCK & UNDERWOOD, recording with Dave Pegg (of Fairport and Jethro Tull) on bass.
Austentation
Austentation present musical performances from the Regency period, including material from Jane Austen's own collections at Chawton in Hampshire.
'A tremendously convincing, authentic and skilful representation of the performance of the time'
'Not only is the music expertly handled, but they are friendly and engaging too'
The Hex Collective
Joining us for the second part of our trip, from Elizabeth Jennings bridge heading north to Wolvercote, turning at Dukes Cut and heading back to Elizabeth Jennings bridge are The Hex Collective.
The Hex collective are a group who are Resurrecting lost folk songs from the Upper Thames, playing tunes that they’ve written to words collected 100 years ago by Alfred Williams, find out more here.
