Tom Kitching
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Fiddle
Tom Kitching picked up the fiddle as a young boy, but hated the Classical music people wanted to teach him. The fiddle was duly put aside. When he was old enough to get into pubs without being thrown out, Tom found folk sessions, and the fiddle was resurrected! Learning from wonderful local musicians such as Shetland Bill, Chris Perry and Sean Heeley, the phantom fiddler, Tom’s style grew to take on its own distinctive characteristics. He is essentially an English style fiddle player, but playing a wide slice of traditional fiddle music from all over the world.
He joined Steal the Recipe and The Fox Hat within a couple of months of each other in 2003, and was a finalist in the BBC Young Folk Award 2003, also winning a musical scholarship to Loughborough University.
Tom is now heavily in demand for his unique style of playing, and can be found deputising for a number of bands around the country, as well as playing regularly with Paul Sullivan and The Fox Hat! Now having completed a degree in politics at Loughborough University, Tom is playing full time around the country.
Tom has his own web pages.