Original compositions by Mike Martin, with Sam Martin (bass, guitar and backing vocals), Pete Wild (piano & backing vocals), Lindsay Martin (fiddle), Ross Smithard (fiddle & banjo),Kate Burke (guitar, concertina & backing vocals), Robyn Martin (backing vocals), Helen Gill (trumpet) and Dave Harris (saxophone).

The songs that make up The Strelley Project ramble their way through all stops along the genres of pop, Celtic, jazz, folk, skiffle and a few places in between. They tumble at you from all directions, from anywhere and everywhere.

Without dwelling at length on their setting in the rising, majestic weavings of two master fiddlers and artful, sometimes cheeky jazz-laced piano, with sprinklings of classic cornet, driving sax, and vocal harmonies to die for, there are some basic elements that give a stand-alone quality to the songs of the Strelley collaboration. Through them (in echoes of William Blake) run the strands of innocence and experience that have informed and directed a man’s life and art. Innoc