Dr. John Cornwall + Band in Westgate-on-Sea, EN

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ABOUT

John Cornwall. Composer, singer/songwriter, soundscape artist and drumming at Dr John's Musical Emporium (DJME). DJME includes Dr J's Head Band, World Tree Music (WTM), Music4Wellbeing C.I.C., Accordia (Mediaeval Fantasy and Meditative music), Professor Prog & The Faculty of Rock and Elephant's Eye with guitar, percussion and mad songs; busking and doing gigs of acoustic and electronic alternative rock.modern electronic. DJME is developing a web presence but in the meantime see/hear on Soundcoud.
"Your music is beautiful" - Mike S. (The Waterboys)

Screen name:

drjohnsmusicalemporium

Member since:

Sep 03 2007

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years together:

25

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Age:

73 years

Influences

Ok - where do I start? Eclectic folk, rock, classical, poetry, story telling and world music? Bob Dylan makeovers, Caravan, Gong, Kevin Ayers, The Zutons, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Terry Riley, Moody Blues, Tchaikovski, Cole Porter, The Eagles, our good friend Adrian Wagner (Yes, and his great great Grandad!), Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Afro-Celts, Mannheim Steamroller, Black, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel, Aimee Mann, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Loreena McKennitt, Byron, e.e. cummings, Clannad and Sarah McLachlan.

Members Of Band

John Cornwall (Composition, Lyrics, Harmony Vocals, Guitars, Drumming, Arranging, Recording & Production)
Gretchen Cornwall (Vocals, Lyrics) in World Tree Music. CDs but not live gigs any more.
Lawrence Giltnane (Drums and percussion) in Elephant's Eye busking and performance duo.
With the vocals, we use guitars, bouzouki and percussion and soundscapes for live performance until such a time as someone will sponsor us with a full choir, small orchestra and specialist band, but we have our own percussion and ethnic drum section!
Accordia is mainly recording meditative but also medieval and renaissance fantasy and wedding music, songs and atmospheric music for special occasions. Professor Prog is prog rock relived for this age with astounding studio compositions.

EQUIPMENT

PA Systems. Roland Street Cubes and Roland Acoustic singer amps. Skytec or Roland BA 550s for small venues and Busking. Roland 60W and sub-woofer for guitar. Amplifiers for acoustic and electric guitars, Roland battery powered Busking Amps, Roland e-drums and acoustic percussion.
...instruments as above and usual band stuff!! :-)

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