Camus (band)

Camus are a traditional folk band from Cambridge, England, named after a village in Co. Galway, Ireland. They perform as a fourpiece: Greg Smith on fiddle, Andrew Burn on melodeon, vocals and Northumbrian smallpipes, David Somerville on keyboards and Northumbrian smallpipes, and Brian Cleary on vocals, guitar and bouzouki. Their repertoire fuses influences from Northumbrian, Shetland and Irish music, as well as their own song and tune compositions drawing on Cleary and Burn’s backgrounds in Ireland and North East England respectively.

Not to be confused with Comus (band).

Camus
Camus performing in 2023
Background information
OriginCambridge, England
GenresFolk
Instrument(s)
  • Fiddle
  • viola
  • Northumbrian smallpipes
  • guitar
  • bouzouki
  • melodeon
  • keyboards
Years active1980–present
LabelsOld Windmill Records
Members
  • Andrew Burn
  • Brian Cleary
  • Greg Smith
  • David Somerville
Past members
  • Mike Nelson
  • Debbie Patterson Jones
  • Gaynor Griffiths
  • Jenny Tabecki
  • Chris McLeod
  • Eddie Keeling
Websitewww.camusmusic.net

Their recent and current work includes concerts at folk festivals such as the St Neots Folk Festival, the Ely Folk Festival and the Sidmouth Folk Festival. They have also run a Northumbrian piping workshop at the Cambridge Folk Festival since 2011. Achievements of band members include national solo, duet and composition championships in Northumbrian piping.

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