Sean Taylor

Biography

Hailing from Northumberland, Sean began playing Bass in his early teens on a small scale Kay catalogue Gibson SG copy handed down from his musically inept older brother!

His father Keith, founded Cramlington Folk Club, one of England’s longest running clubs, where a young Sean listened to and learned to appreciate many different styles of folk music. ;-)

He learned his trade with, among others, the vocal harmony group Legend (Barrie and Ingrid Temple) the Robert Whitehead Scottish Country Dance Band, and various dreadful punk, rock, reggae and indie bands on the local scene.

After studying music and music technology at Newcastle, Sean went on to become MD for The Drifters and to play with bands as diverse as Cuig and Bucks Fizz! He engineered and performed on two of Vin Garbutt\'s albums and is currently working on a third.

His understanding of the fretless bass with Irish music has been universally admired, "Such tasteful bass guitar" (Irish Music Mag); "...that ingenious mix of African and Celtic" (Steve Dietrich Celtic Airs Radio, USA); "slap bass Township style with a capitol T" (fRoots).

Sean’s most recent projects include the North Country Dance Band (an offshoot from Cuig performing traditional music from all over Europe); Los Twangeros (with singer songwriter Terry Fletcher); and as bassist with Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies. He is also producing an album for banjo player extraordinaire Martin Matthews.