Martha Spencer Trio
Martha Spencer Trio at The Cluny, Newcastle upon Tyne
About the show
Martha Spencer is a singer-songwriter, mountain musician and dancer from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She grew up in the musical Spencer family and learned to play several instruments (guitar, fiddle, banjo, bass, dulcimer, mandolin) and flatfoot/clog at a young age. She performs and has recorded with various groups and has been involved with several roots music projects.
Lucas Pasley is an oldtime fiddler / banjoist and singer-songwriter from Sparta, NC in the heart of the southern Appalachian mountains. Lucas’s great uncle was the fiddler for the early country band The Red Fox Chasers, and Lucas has been devoted to the honoring and preserving the traditional music of his region. He is also a songwriter and pulls lyrics from his family's writing in addition to his own. Lucas has released several albums of both his songs and traditional music with his local band Gap Civil.
In addition to playing percussion in the Wonderland Band, Jake Dwyer is a songwriter and guitarist for the Jake Dwyer band and also performs solo. Jake sings heartfelt and soulful songs rooted in vintage blues rock tunes.
