The Winter Mountain Band

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Currently taking the UK gig circuit by storm, The Winter Mountain Band are a folk harmony duo featuring Joe Francis on vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica and Martin Smyth on vocals, piano and organs. Hailing from the shores of Cornwall and Donegal, the band blend melodic folk songs, heartfelt lyrics and two voices in a sound reminiscent of a time before digital recording when the emphasis fell on the importance of live performance, the power of harmony and the essence of the song...

October 2008, an Englishman and an Irishman, both songwriters, traveling by rail across the united States, step onto the same train in Chicago IL. Whether a chance meeting or an act of fate, the conversation that followed revealed their mutual love for vocal harmony and the sounds of the sixties and was to highlight a general feeling that both were searching for something not of this era. By the time they hit Memphis TN the foundations for a new musical force were set..

The Winter Mountain Band are currently on tour in the UK and their debut EP is shortly to be made available on iTunes...