The Music Hall was full of children, parents and teachers and the Demon Barbers put on their full roadshow performance but with elements of dance and song from pupils of Oxon.

Performers

Damien Barber - vocals, English concertina, button accordion, rapper and guitar
Bryony Griffith - vocals and fiddle
Will Hampson - melodeon, harmonica, rapper, morris
Lee Sykes - electric bass, rapper
Ben Griffith - drums
Tiny Taylor - clogs
Fiona Bradshaw - clogs
Andy Stephenson - rapper
David Hall - rapper, morris

Year 2

Georgia Berey, Jake Witcombe, Sophie Mulloy, Abigail Jones, Harry Normandin, Megan Emberton, Joshua Stubbs, Jamie Williams, Christopher Aitken, Keya Patwardhan.

Year 3

Shannon Yarwood, Jemma Horrell, James Lapslie, Jonathon Smith, Maddy White.

Year 4

Ibby Williams, Isabelle Clark, Caragh Knott, Joe James, Jessica Smith.

Year 5

Matthew Young, Cameron Wilson, Conor Nevin, Estelle Pack, Sara Edwards.

Year 6

Bradney Williams, Emma Jennings, Charlotte McCormac, Kirsty Wilson, Hannah Hughes.

The concert was a huge success, a unique experience for the children involved and a fantastic spectacle for all those in the audience.

The Demon Barber Roadshow will be performing at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival in August 2008, and will work with the 30 pupils from Oxon over the festival weekend, and there will be a special performance on Monday afternoon where the Roadshow will again include the children in their show

A review from the Shropshire Star on the following day read

“If anybody in the audience at the Music Hall last night (FRI) came to see the Demon Barber Roadshow with a preconceived stereotype of what folk music was, just minutes in the company of this dynamic and high energy band must have dispelled those myths forever.

The Demon Barbers is no ordinary group - if there was ever a folk rulebook, they threw it away years ago. They combine a bass guitar and drums with a violin, melodeon, accordion and an English concertina with their own unique take on traditional English folk songs.

Add to the mix two talented clog dancers (Tiny Taylor and Fiona Bradshaw) and rapper and morris dancers and you've got a show that held the audience spellbound.

But last night Roadshow leader Damien Barber - who along with Lee Sykes, Andy Stephenson, David Hall and Will Hampson turned rapper dancing into a sight to behold with florescent swords - and singer and violinist Bryony Griffiths were only too delighted to be upstaged by the 30 children from Oxon School that they have been working with all week as part of Shrewsbury Folk Festival's schools project.

The children, varying from year two to six, took starring roles showing off the traditional folk music and dance skills they have learnt in just several days. As head teacher Mark Rogers said it will be an experience the children will never forget.

The Demon Barbers and their young Oxon protégés will be wowing the audiences again at Shrewsbury Folk Festival from August 22 to 25".

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