Country music on stage at Kemble festival (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Country music on stage at Kemble festival

AG and KATE from Holland bring a concert of Country and Gospel music, with guitars, banjo, autoharp and dulcimer, to the Kemble Spring Music Festival 2005 on Friday, May 6 from 7-9pm.

The concert takes place in the Yeats Room at Forge House, Kemble.

When Johnny Cash visited Holland in 1972 he inspired them to start their own musical career. They were very successful, touring with British and American Country musicians, and performing many times in Nashville, Tennessee.

During the 1980s they became acquainted with Wesley hymns while on a tour of the Shetland Islands and started to put them to Gospel music.

This was also very successful and they recorded ten albums of Wesley hymns. In the late 1980s they started performing in prisons in both Britain and America where they now do many concerts each year.

Today, Thursday, May 5, a group from Kemble is going to Gloucester Prison when AG and Kate perform there.

Admission to the Friday concert is free and everyone is welcome.