In my local theater!
The great guitarist Martin Simpson with Nancy Kerr and Andy Cutting
 
Together playing 7 Years

This was very good. I had a front row seat (it was a small venue too) so watching as well as listening to such masterful musicians was a real treat.
 
I got to talk to Martin Simpson when buying a CD in the interval. What do you talk about to a musician you have admired for many years. Small change aparently , he was running out and I had a pocket full.

Glyn Barnes
I had a front row seat (it was a small venue too) so watching as well as listening to such masterful musicians was a real treat.

Excellent
 
I love it when you can get up close like that. We're generally told that the best place to stand/sit is by the sound desk, but sod that!

I have a Martin Simpson album, The Bramble Briar, truly amazing stuff. I have to say I prefer his folky stuff to his bluesy stuff, but there's no doubt he's a very versatile guitarist. I think he plays on June Tabor's "While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping," a brilliant guitar part for an excellent song which really demonstrates how weird and non-linear folk meters can be.

I first heard him on the album "A Cut Above" he recorded with June Tabor around 1980. I just found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVFpMLE6WIo A great cover of a Richard Thompson song.
 
I also found he made an Album with Chinese pipa player Wu Man. Seems like an intresting fusion of traditions and styles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPXOdOGyYbI
 
 

Great stuff!
 
Incidentally I was wrong about Martin Simpson playing on While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping, at least on the album version. It was actually Nic Jones, another great. And come to think of it the guitar part has him stamped all over it. Perhaps Martin Simpson performed it live with her or something? I think the two played together at one point. 

Hi,
 
I wish there was some of that appreciation for a few of the older folks here in the West Coast ... they are all basically ignored unless they were stars ... and some folks that were very good, will continue to be ignored. One can thank California for the Hollywood concept to ruin the history of music in any shape it can in favor of a star ... and of course, I am almost sure that no one can name many shining stars in the history of folk music in California ... and Crosby, Still and Nash need not apply!