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There are 6 artists with this name: 1) Chris Wood is an English folk musician and composer. 2) Chris Wood is a techno artist from Germany. 3) Chris Wood is an electronic (idm) artist from South African Republic. 4) Chris Wood is an indie and trip-hop artist based in USA. 5) Chris Wood is a bassist with the trio Medeski, Martin and Wood. 6) Chris Wood is a flautist and saxophonist of British rock band Traffic. 1) Chris Wood is an English folk musician and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and sings. He is an ardent enthusiast for traditional English dance music (with a background in English church music), including Morris and other rituals and ceremonies, but his repertoire also includes much French folk music and traditional Québecois material. He has worked for many years in a duo with button accordion/melodeon player Andy Cutting: Wood & Cutting are one of the most influential acts on the British folk music scene. Q Magazine gave their “Live at Sidmouth” album four stars and put the duo “at the forefront of the latest wave of British music acts”. One of his first recordings was playing bass and percussion on “Jack’s Alive” (1980) the first album by the Oysterband (at that time called the Oyster Ceilidh Band). Wood is also a member of the acclaimed Wood, Wilson & Carthy, with Roger Wilson and Martin Carthy. Wood & Cutting, together with piano accordionist Karen Tweed and guitarist Ian Carr, make up the Two Duos Quartet, who have made one album “Half as happy as we”. With John Dipper on fiddle and Robert Harbron on concertinas, he is part of the English Acoustic Collective.

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