Raunds Festival, Northants 
What an incredibly exhausting weekend it’s been 
The whole place rocked and reeled to the music and energy that is 
The Duncan McFarlane Band.  If you haven’t heard this band, get to 
a gig soon! They were fantastic - great musicians, vocals and such 
style!  I want to know... how can Duncan McFarlane still have enough
energy to leap all over the place after 11 at night, following a curry 
and having played for over an hour? The band’s temporary drummer 
was not only very pleasing to the eye, but simply superb!  
Some of their die-hard fans came along with them all the way from up t’ north, 
and yet another CD was added to my collection. Another 2am crawl 
into bed with thoughts of Sunday in my head and the strains of 
Woodshed Boys still whirling in my ears. Jenny Clarke (co-organiser)
 
Otley Festival
The Folk Festival Sunday night concert opening act was the electric 
and electrifying version of the Duncan McFarlane Band. 
The hall was as crammed as regulations allow and the audience as 
intense as the music, which is potent without being overwhelming. 
The band is a 6-piece with Geoff Taylors lead guitar and 
Anne Brivonese’s violin rolling out a carpet of sound over which 
the action ceaselessly capers. Its a finely balanced outfit which could 
clearly hold its own in a venue ten times the size of this 300-seater, 
but was in no way too much for its surroundings.
John Hepworth, Wharfedale Gazette