Welcome to Lesley Marsden's web page.
Here you will find information about Lesley, details of her new CD and of where you can hear her play.
If you'd like to hear a couple of sessions of Lesley's music, she will be playing at Turton Tower near Bolton on Saturday 22nd September at 3:55pm, and on Sunday 23rd September at 12:30pm
Lesley plays a model 0003, 6-string acoustic guitar made by Jimmy Moon (Moon Guitars, Glasgow, Scotland) which is fitted with a Fishman Ellipse Blend pickup. She also plays a 12-string Norman B18(12) acoustic guitar fitted with a Fishman pickup, a selection of low whistles, and a keyless Ormiston wooden flute in D.
Lesley's new CD Coming Home features a mixture of traditional and contemporary folk songs, including some of her own compositions:
- Coming Home
- Seal Maiden
- Crazy Man Michael
- The Far Off Place
- Clohinne Winds
- Briar And The Rose
- Fields Of Gold
- Scarborough Fair/Canticle
- The Locket
- Banks Of The Nile
- Wild Mountain Thyme
Lesley is accompanied on track 11 by 'The Whistleman' – John Courtman, and on tracks 5 and 11 by Matt Haigh on electric fiddle. John is a good friend and an accomplished whistle player, based in Oldham, who has recorded a number of his own CDs, available through his website. Matt is a superb Bolton-based fiddle player, who Lesley met a couple of years ago.
You can buy Lesley's CD in person at any of the venues listed on the left, whenever she is playing. Alternatively, it is available by mail-order.
Coming Home costs just £10.00 and for mail-order customers postage and packing is £1.50 (to UK addresses). Overseas customers, please ask about payment methods and shipping costs.
