Our Story
The North Shields Folk Group brings together a mixture of instrumental players to perform as an orchestra. If you play flute, whistle, violin, clarinet, guitar, ukulele, bass, cello and can sight-read a simple line of music then you are most welcome to join.
Perhaps you learned to play in school and haven’t played for a few years? Lets dust off that instrument and use those skills you spent so long learning!
Repertoire will be varied in style and parts will be developed for players of different standards.
Lucy Marsh – Leader
North Shields Folk Group is lead by Lucy Marsh who is a multi-instrumentalist, teacher and performer from Whitley Bay. She started playing music from the age of 8 and went onto complete ABRSM exams in violin, flute, recorder and music theory. She has explored different genres, playing in symphony orchestras, jazz bands, pit bands for musicals and discovered a passion for folk music. She studied folk and traditional music at Newcastle University and is an alumnus of The National Youth Folk Ensemble.
Lucy is an experienced gigging musician and performs and records with a plethora of different bands. She plays with local contemporary artists such as Josh Webb, Ben Harwood and Luke Porter. Lucy is also a founder member of folk fusion trio, The Hop. She has performed in across the country as well as in local venues such as, Newcastle City Hall, The Cluny, The Grove and various folk festivals.
