Monkey Puzzle.

2000-06-22

Monkey Puzzle are a recent group that are one of Kent's quality acts; they comprise :

Laura Targett : - fiddle, whistle.
Laura has just won the Wiltshire award for Young Folk Musician of the Year,
and can do most wonderous things with a fiddle -
Folk, Celtic, Cajun, Jazz, and her gypsy rhythms are always highly appreciated.
It is Laura's fiddle that she hand painted that I use as a logo for this web-site.
Lucy Randall : bodhraninfo@yahoo.co.uk - bouzouki, whistle, bodhran.
Lucy has just won the Wiltshire award for Young Folk Musician of the Year
and also for Young Instumentalist of the year.
At her tender age she is a master of the bodhran.
Pete Gazey : 01303 269 146 e-mail: PeterGazey_at_aol_dot_com - guitar.
Pete is a guitarist of great delicacy and subtlety .

Monkey Puzzle (and Chris Taylor) are in Jordan at the Jerash Folk Festival at the moment. I just wonder where they will be in a year or two - hear them now while they are still based in Kent, and you can see them for the price of a pint or two of beer.
- [So ever since, to hear Laura you have had to spend most of the year in Aus, but we have had a few great gigs from her on flying visits, she has brought some great music back with her; and Lucy has been making excellent progress as well, playing with some great names. Check out Fiddlers Various 2005- Beau 2007].

Monkey Puzzle Gig Recordings.

Monkey Puzzle had a most excellent gig at the Ship Centurian in Whitstable, on the 22nd of June (2000), and I came away with over two hours on tape. Sorry that it has taken me so long to put it up in the web, but just selecting only a few 30 second slices was hard - and Laura and Lucy want to polish some bits that were my first choice. I have moved sound files to a new host and am now able to put up a complete recording of the Moldovian Hora.

Thanks to Ray Sandwell for an excellent mix from his sound desk.

MP3 Music.

Short 30sec 0.5Mbyte MP3 excerpts from the gig are down-loadable below : - also full track :

	- Jenny's welcome to Charlie
	- Moldovian Hora -		- 3min 8sec, 2.9MByte
	- Full Rigged Ship Set - 1
	- Full Rigged Ship Set - 2 (Cajun)
	- Full Rigged Ship Set - 3

Recording © copyright: Dr. Beau Webber www.KentFolk.com, Laura Targett, Lucy Randall and Peter Gazey, 2000.
(p) performance: Laura Targett, Lucy Randall and Peter Gazey, 2000.

Monkey Puzzle Gig Photos.

I have realised that I do not have a single photo of a Monkey Puzzle gig - too busy listening, I guess.
Still I do have photos of Lucy, Laura and Pete at other gigs and sessions, so here are a couple.