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Welsh-based International Conductor Trades Baton for Stratocaster
Read the original at The Herald, Wales Welsh-based International Conductor Trades Baton for Stratocaster One of the UK’s most celebrated conductors will be turning his attention from Beethoven and Brahms to Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin on the 29th of November, as Ken Woods and the Old Blue Gang […]
Electric Liederland – When Hendrix Meets Mahler
“Freak-out, psychedelic and so on, that’s all pretty limited. I don’t want anybody to stick a psychedelic label around my neck. Sooner Bach and Beethoven. Don’t misunderstand me, I love Bach and Beethoven. I have many records by them, also by Gustav Mahler.” Jimi Hendrix Perhaps the most controversial […]
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Ken Woods is a guitarist with a fiery temperament and a blazing technique whose playing embraces the lessons of the masters from the great traditions of blues, rock, jazz, country, cowboy and folk music. He’s a songwriter whose language spans the full breadth of American music and whose technique is […]
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Watch this space for more 2025 tour dates Album Release Concert Featuring a complete performance of the music from the new concept album Silent Spike Porters Cardiff 4 July 2025 Details and booking links coming soon!
Funky, Fierce and Urban
Way, way back in the 1980’s a couple of friends and I had a vision for a new band. We were all passionate about Hendrix, about the rougher side of 70s funk like Funkadelic and Sly Stone, about Zeppelin and about modern jazz, particularly the great 1960’s combos John Coltrane […]
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Guitarist, singer and songwriter Ken Woods is probably more widely known via his alter-ego: as the American conductor, cellist and composer Kenneth Woods. With over 50 recordings to his credit, including many ‘best of the year’ awards from publications like The Times, Gramophone and Forbes, Kenneth is the Artistic Director of […]
Hired Gun
Classical Guitar, banjo, mandolin and company…. They don’t appear often in classical scores, but when they do, chaos often ensues. Let’s face it, most fret-chasers have spent minimal time in their lives following conductors or reading extended notation. And let’s face it, I’m a conductor – if I can’t […]