by Oshi Yuval www.oshistyle.com
Friendship, plus a mutual love of unaccompanied singing have brought together these three fine voices. Mike Nicholson, Lesley Massey and Tony Petty have combined together as Alchemy to produce a unique blend of harmony with a full rich sound.
As accomplished performers, Mike has enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a singer and musician while Tony and Lesley have performed together since 1996 as the very popular duo Capella keeping them all very much in demand on the Folk Club and Festival circuit. A chance meeting at the Chippenham Folk Festival has led to a long-standing friendship and the opportunity to meld the three voices into one sound, which has recently been described as.... '‘…Like being wrapped in a warm musical blanket’'
Interpretation and musicality are central to the performance of a wonderfully varied repertoire which is drawn from the tradition, both old and new, and which is increasingly earning Alchemy a reputation as having one of the most distinctive vocal sounds to emerge in recent years.
Current Gig info
2010
1st March Nellies Folk Club, Tonbridge
4th June
5th June } Kentish Horse Folk Ale, Markbeech
6th June
11th June Orpington Friday Folk
1st Oct
2nd Oct } Tenterden Folk Festival
3rd Oct
15th Oct Deal Folk Club
20th Nov The Star, St Mary in the Marsh
2011
17th }
18th } June Alcester Folk Festival
19th }
28th June Bracknell Folk Club
3rd July The Tarn, Eltham, SE9 (Mottingham Festival)
17th July The Flower Show, West Chiltington
20th July Dorking Folk Club
5th - 18th August Broadstairs Folk Week
14th October The Goose is Out, East Dulwich, SE22
(Upstairs _ the Mag)
email: ptcapella_aol.com
Phone: 01795 841008
or
email: mike_nick2545.freeserve.co.uk
Phone: 01798815366
Jan 12th The Drum, Hythe Kent
March 19th Woolston & Bursleton FC, Southampton
April 13th - 15th Crediton Folk Festival, Devon
