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From a newpaper review:

"If he is perhaps still best known as the godfather of electric folk music, then with his latest project, Rainbow Chasers, Ashley Hutchings has now gone on to blend the traditional with the contemporary in an even more seductive manner.

“Damn The Day”, for instance, updates the melody of the highwayman’s lament “Adieu Adieu” to produce a portrait of today’s criminal underclass, while the metaphorical lyrics of the self-composed “When I Jumped Ship” are themselves in the style of the seafaring ballad.

This skilful telescoping of past and present was equally evident, moreover in “Under Surveillance” (which traces the development of photography from its age of innocence right through to the more sinister surveillance camera), Albion Band favourite “The Potter’s Dream” and the personal family history “Those Broad Shoulders”.

The dazzling literacy of the quartet’s material was given even greater resonance by the subtlety of their arrangements. This is one rainbow, in short, that yields gold aplenty.”

This was a memorial evening to John Smedley, a respected promoter of folk music concerts working for Folk South East, who sadly died some 6 months earlier that year. John Kirkpatrick was MC for the evening.

This was the 4th gig of Rainbow Chasers, although it was not obvious from their superb performance.

Ashley Hutchings Bass/vocals
Mark Hutchinson Guitar/vocals
Jo Hamilton Viola, guitar and vocals
Ruth Angell Fiddle, guitar and vocals