Jeff has composed music for many theatrical productions, both professional and amateur, including the "ballad opera" GOING FOR A SOLDIER, which was performed in folk clubs and on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1970s.

Dave Boulton

vocals, guitar, acoustic bass guitar, bodhran, shakey egg, rubber glove (don't ask!)

Dave comes from Stoke-on-Trent, and has been performing on the folk scene in the area for around thirty years. He was a member of the five-man harmony group MUGGINS FANCY in the late '70s, and provided some of the comic highlights of their performances with his original monologues. He later helped form the ceilidh band CORNFIELD PERAMBULATION, playing bass guitar and leading much of the singing.

Jeff Parton

vocals, guitar, mandolin, octave mandola, 4 & 5-string banjos, concertina, Indian harmonium, timple, tzouras, whistle

Jeff has been a well-known figure on the North Staffs folk scene since it started, having been a founder member of the first folk club in the area in 1962. (He also founded the Sheffield University Folk Club at the same time, and commuted between the two during term-time.)

Jeff was also a founder member of both MUGGINS FANCY and CORNFIELD PERAMBULATION, and was Cornfield's resident caller and banjo player until the band split up in 1999.

In 1964 Jeff took part in the pioneering musical documentary "The Jolly Potters" at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. He went on to become the theatre's Musical Adviser, and composed and performed incidental music for over 50 productions. In recognition of his services to the theatre, a rehearsal room was named after him when the new theatre was opened in 1986.