A house gig with American country and bluegrass trio Locust Honey. Featuring Chloe Edmonstone on fiddle (and occasional guitar), Meredith Watson on guitars (and occasional fiddle) and John Miller on upright bass. They provide a mix of both traditional and self-penned songs and tunes, a tasty slice of Americana.
Both singers have strong voices, Chloe's the more resonant, Meredith's the more expressive, and they combine to good effect on the harmonies. There are no flashy instrumental fireworks, just solid professional musicianship tightly performed. The arrangements are straightforward and effective, the tunes rousing and delivered with an obvious love for the genre.
For the first few numbers they appeared to be one of those bands that give little of themselves to the audience, just the odd brief intro to songs, but that changed as they got further into the evening. Forgivable when they haven't had a night off in over three weeks of touring, but the enthusiastic responses of the packed audience seemed to feed them energy. Well before half time they were engaging much more and providing a few laughs along the way.
Foot-tapping music, a bit of fun, what more can you ask for? When the cries of 'More' came at the end they were entirely genuine and reflected the enjoyment of the moment. Locust Honey are a live act well worth seeing.
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