Chris Woolley
Catching the music bug around 1970, Chris regularly played guitar and sang at Wigan Folk Club, at a time when the folk scene was thriving and bands were still called groups.
Many of the country’s most influential artists visited the club and he watched them keenly to try and improve his playing technique, although he had more success copying their drinking habits.
Meeting touring bands such as Na Filí and the Battlefield Band and hearing the ground breaking recordings of the Bothy Band and Planxty, gave Chris a taste for Celtic music and after sitting in at trad sessions at Liverpool Irish Centre and at pubs and clubs in his area, he decided that he would
much rather accompany traditional music than his own voice. Chris mainly uses DADGAD tuning for accompaniment. As well as playing at trad sessions around the North West of England and in Ireland, he plays in the Beer for Breakfast Irish Band and Coppanearful.
