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Chris Walshaw :: Music
 ... on the soprano |
Chris Walshaw plays English & French bagpipes, saxophone, flute and whistles in a number of bands and projects.
He has performed at festivals & clubs in Europe and across Britain including at venues as diverse as St Chartier Festival, France; Rudolstadt Tanz & Folk Fest, Germany; Stallet, Stockholm; St Martin-in-the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London; the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London; and Liverpool Cathedral.
He also appears as a bagpiper in the 2017 feature film Tulip Fever, set in 17th century Amsterdam.
With his bands, he has made 15 albums and his music occasionally appears on BBC Radio 2, 3 & 4.
Chris is also responsible for abc music notation, now used all over the world, primarily to notate folk & traditional tunes, but also in academic research and as a text based resource for visually-impaired musicians. The abc website lists around 800,000 tunes from 160 websites and has around 300,000 visitors a year.
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Oscina at Festival des Panards, 2025 |
SaxBox - The Duchess |
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Happy 10th birthday Folk Dance Remixed! (a wonderful lockdown video with a small bagpipe contribution from Chris) |
MoltenAmba at Towersey Festival, 2017 |
Current projects
 On stage at Towersey photo: Daisy Mercedes Jones |
- Oscina: weaving tantalising tunes and spellbinding songs for concerts, balfolk & Euro-dances.
- Turquoise, Oscina's debut album, is available for download and CD pre-order
- Climax Ceilidh Band: orgasmic music for ceilidhs and dances
- Unlocked, Climax's latest recording, is available for download
- Five Play, Climax's second CD, is still available
- Come Dancing, Climax's debut CD, is still available
- SaxBox: Ibiza-sax for late night ceilidh raves.
- MoltenAmba: instrumental pyrotechnics ... folk, blues, and all that jazz
- Slide to the Side, MoltenAmba's latest CD, is still available
- Extended Play, MoltenAmba's debut CD, is still available
- Meridian: ... raw folk energy, laced with finesse ...
- Second, Meridian's latest CD, is still available
- Prime, Meridian's debut CD, is now SOLD OUT
- Angles: European couple dance music with a twist
- Tangents, Angles' latest CD, is still available
- Angles, Angles' debut CD, is still available
- The Duellists: with hurdy-gurdy players Nigel Eaton and Cliff Stapleton.
- The Duellists' CD, English Hurdy-Gurdy Music, is now SOLD OUT
- Zephyrus: - The English Bagpipe Orchestra - Jon Swayne's ensemble performing exquisite drone-based harmony
- English Suite, the second of Zephyrus' paired CD release, is still available
- Halfe Hannikin, the first of Zephyrus' paired CD release, is still available
- Stocai: eclectic English ceilidh music ... direct to your feet
- Stocai's latest CD, After the Brawl, is now SOLD OUT
- Stocai's debut CD, Champagne Brawl, is still available
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Oscina - Turquoise
Oscina Music, 2025 (available for download and CD pre-order) -
Climax Ceilidh Band - Unlocked
unlabelled, 2022 (available for download) -
MoltenAmba - Slide to the Side
MoltenAmba (AMB 180), 2016 (still available for sale) -
Angles - Tangents
Angles CDs (ANG 002), 2013 (still available for sale) -
MoltenAmba - Extended Play
MoltenAmba (AMB 360), 2012 (still available for sale) -
Angles - Angles
Angles CDs (ACD 001), 2010 (still available for sale) -
Climax Ceilidh Band - Five Play
Beautiful Jo Records (BEJOCD 53), 2008 (still available for sale) -
Zephyrus - English Suite
Rocke Records (ROCCD4), 2007 (still available for sale) -
Zephyrus - Halfe Hannikin
Rocke Records (ROCCD3), 2007 (still available for sale) -
Climax Ceilidh Band - Come Dancing
Beautiful Jo Records (BEJOCD 49), 2006 (still available for sale) -
Meridian - Second
Reiver Records (RVRCD 05), 2005 (still available for sale) -
Meridian - Prime
(HARCD 043), 2003 (now SOLD OUT) -
Stocai - After the Brawl
(HARCD 042), 2002 (now SOLD OUT) -
Stocai - Champagne Brawl
(HARCD 033), 1998 (still available for sale) -
The Duellists - English Hurdy-Gurdy Music
Panic ATC Records (PATCCD 20397 DU), 1997 (now SOLD OUT) - Cliff Stapleton & Friends - The Tumbling of Creatures, Woodbird (Wb001), 2016.
- Julian Goodacre - Some of Me Pipes, White House Musics (WHCD04), 2009.
- Hardcore English, EFDSS, 2007.
- Jenny Newman - Toms Fiddle, Glasshouse Records (GHCD 001), 2000.
- Julian Goodacre - Pipemaker Calls Yer Tunes, White House Musics (WHCD03), 2000.
- Michèle Welborn - Tongue and Groove (MWCD 01), 1998.
A list of forthcoming gigs for these bands can be found on the Gig list
To book one of these bands contact Chris by email.
Past projects
 ... on the tenor |
Some projects are no longer active:
Cornemusiques: Jean-Pierre Rasle's one man bagpipe extravaganza expanded for occasional special performances.
The Chase: a sensual swirl of new music and dance spun from the tangled threads of European traditions.
Stepback: an extravaganza of English and American Traditional Dance interpreted for theatre performances.
Stepback at Chequermead Arts Centre, East Grinstead, 2002
Buy my CDs
I haven't set up an online shop, but I'm happy to ship out any or all of the CDs mentioned here as still available.
All you need to do is make a PayPal donation at the abcnotation.com website of £5 or more per CD (£7 for outside the UK) and let me know by email where to send the CDs. Note that you don't need a PayPal account to do this.
Discography
In the recording studio
photo: Chris Mitchell
Guest appearances: