The Music Plays On In Ealing

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No audience but Ealing Eclectic is providing gigs in lockdown

Sam Willoughby - Ealing Eclectic

With musicians being one of the many performing groups hard hit by the closure of venues and cancellation of bookings throughout the ongoing pandemic, many have had to turn to online platforms.

Ealing Club Eclectic has been known in the past for putting on local festivals and gigs at the legendary Ealing Club and has now created "The Brentham Lockdown Sessions"; gigs recorded under semi-lockdown conditions at the same Pitshanger venue where Chris Jagger, Louise Marshall and Ray Gelato played. 

In 2021, The Ealing Club is hoping to kickstart live music - as soon it becomes safe to do so - but in the meantime they're like many, online. 

Sam Willoughby is an accomplished singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who will be familiar to followers of Ealing Eclectic, The Blues Festival and The Hanwell Hootie. He's toured Canada with the No strings Attached Theatre Company, East Timor with John Schumann and throughout Europe as a solo act. Sam was the bassist of the award winning alt/country band, Huckleberry Swedes and regular bassist with John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew. He has also played with the legendary country artist, Bill Chamber, father of Kasey Chambers. 

He has made four albums with “ The Record” recorded in London, by former Abbey Road Engineer/Producer Tony Clark and available on CD BABY and most online download sites. 

View Sam performing "Give Me Some Thing Real" at the Brentham Club on The Ealing Club Eclectic Lock Down Sessions

Sam's website is here

Visit the Ealing Club Community Interest Company at: www.ealingclub.com 

Club Eclectic" is the live music programme run by the Ealing Club CIC & funded by the Arts Council that reaches out to venues with multi-genre performances.

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