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A brand new CD of songs relating to Midwinter and Christmas, half featuring JK solo, and half enhanced with massive harmonies from The Bishop’s Castle Carollers. Glorious seasonal fare, with just one toe-tapping instrumental track.

Reprint of an article by JK in the South West Shropshire Historical and Archaeological Society's Journal, Volume 25, 2014. 16 page A 5 booklet telling the history of discovering Folk Songs in the county, with several photos and illustrations. No words or music, but it tells you where to find them.

Over 70 tunes that John plays, transcribed by Gary Coover onto the 30 button Anglo in C and G. Musical notation supported by fingering charts, tablature, discography, biography, and a load of other information, with John’s articles on How To Play The Anglo from the 1970’s and a few other words of wisdom from the man himself.

Hand crafted pewter badge with a pin, made by Chameleon Arts to a design by Dave Armitage from the 1970s, based on an original idea by JK. Approximate diameter 1 1/5th inches, or 3 centimetres, comes in a jewellery box 2 inches by 2 inches by 1 inch.

The book of the suite of new dances and tunes devised for the village of Llandinam, Powys, by John Kirkpatrick and Karen Tweed. Commissioned and published by TASC in 2007. Fourteen Tunes, ten dances, with instructions and a rehearsal CD of the music, played by John and Karen, at the correct dance length.

The CD of songs written by John Kirkpatrick for the folk opera by Neil Gore and toured by Townsend Productions, telling the story of Mary MacArthur and the strike by the women chain-makers of the Black Country in 1910. Performed by the original cast from the 2019 show - Rowan Godel, Bryony Purdue, and Neil Gore. (JK is not on it!)

Seventeen tracks by seventeen solo singers, including Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Jon Boden, Lisa Knapp, Sam Lee, and JK, as well as one each from Stick In The Wheels’s Nicola Kearey and Fran Foote.

A new CD with JK in buoyant mood - loads of songs and just two instrumental tracks. All noises made by Mr K, including some big choral backing vocals and wild outbursts of frenzied percussion.

JK joins a newly-regrouped Home Service band, taking over the lead vocal role and adding his inimitably masterful accordion.

The CD of John’s new show of Songs from the First and Second World Wars. Popular Songs from the time, and some parodies sung by the troops. JK’s four sons join him on some massive unison choruses.

A double dose of live recordings - CD + DVD - capturing the revitalised six-piece band on tour in April 2012. The two trumpets lead a glorious trawl through Brass Monkey's past catalogue, climaxing with the stunning new showstopper "The King's Hunt".

A whole CD devoted to the traditional folk music of Shropshire, where John has lived since 1973. Four instrumental tracks and eleven songs featuring voice and squeezebox, with some big harmonies on a few choruses provided by JK and Sally Kirkpatrick, and a beautiful sleeve design by David Suff.

The CD of John's new one-man village hall show - "The Victorian Farmer's Year in Song" - a selection of traditional songs celebrating the work on the farm and those who did it. Solo voice and squeezebox with some big chorus harmonies by JK and Sally Kirkpatrick, and two instrumental items.

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Over 130 original compositions (plus a handful of tantalising “Additives”) suitable for all melody instruments, grouped according to tune type, and with chords throughout, plus a Discography and Index. 80 pages in A4 size, with a staple binding and heavy coated paper to fold flat for easy use.

A solo instrumental CD consisting entirely of tunes composed by the artist, and performed on the full range of push-pull squeezeboxes. A shameless advert for the JK Tunebook due to be published soon.

A new selection of traditional English songs and tunes, with JK, Martin Carthy, Martin Brinsford, Roger Williams, and introducing new trumpeter Paul Archibald.

A new selection of traditional and self-penned songs and carols connected with Christmas and mid-winter, with a few choruses in full harmony supplied by the artiste and Sally Kirkpatrick. Otherwise solo voice and squeezebox on fifteen joyfully seasonal tracks, including two instrumental items.

A second helping of Shropshire Morris Dance Tunes from the repertoire of The Shropshire Bedlams and Martha Rhoden's Tuppenny Dish. Solo performances on one-row and two-row melodeons and anglo concertina, with a little bit of studio trickery sneaked in. The follow-up to "Sheepskins".

An equal number of songs and instrumentals, traditional and self-composed, many of them duets with other musicians, featuring contributions from James Fagan & Nancy Kerr, Alistair Anderson, Bob Johnson, Kevin Dempsey, Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Ray Fisher, and Hijaz Mustapha.

A new recording of mainly traditional material, with JK, Martin Carthy, Martin Brinsford, Howard Evans, and BOTH trombonists – Richard Cheetham and Roger Williams. Some massive brass arrangements.

For the first time, a selection of songs and tunes, all solo, exactly as if live. Twenty tracks, mostly traditional with multi-tracking on just two.

First released as a Squeezer cassette (SQZC 125) in 1988. Morris Dance music from Shropshire, the repertoire of the Shropshire Bedlams and Martha Rhoden's Tuppenny Dish. Solo performances on bass, baritone and treble anglo concertinas plus one-row and two-row melodeons.

The John Kirkpatrick Songbook

48 original songs plus one monologue - words, melodies, chords, notes on the songs, a biography, and a discography. 118 pages in A4 size with a spiral binding.

Double DVD box
PAL format only

Originally published as a series of three tutorial videos, this has now been repackaged into a single box with two DVDs. The programme gives you a complete one-to-one lesson, starting from absolute scratch and ending up out beyond Mars! No musical notation, no complicated tablatures, and no impossible diagrams – this is teaching by ear and by sight, using, for the first time on a tuition video, traditional English tunes and songs.

Keeping the running order of the three videos - with over forty sections in all, split into equal parts over the two discs and directly accessible from the main menus - the DVD format allows for further precisely timed sub-sections and clearly labelled titles as each new tune is introduced.

NB: Available only in PAL format. The disc will play on PAL format DVD players/TVs in the UK and Europe, but not normally on NTSC format systems in the USA, Canada or Japan. It should, however, play on any computer system wherever you live.

The original descriptions were as follows:

VOLUME 1, MCRV 9991, 1999
What a melodeon is, where the notes are, getting the two sides playing together, all the basic dance rhythms, a long look at dynamics and ornamentation, and a thorough exploration of the possibilities of sticking to one row. 82 minutes.

VOLUME 2, MCRV 9992, 1999
Secrets Revealed – discovering the wider musical potential of the two-row melodeon – playing three or more chords, looking at minor scales and modes, changing key, crossing the rows, and making full use of the basses. 60 minutes.

VOLUME 3, MCRV 1004, 2001
The Masterclass – How to achieve clarity at speed, and a long look at chords on the right hand, both as accompaniment and as rhythmic stabs under a tune, with advice on how to get the fullest effects in minor keys, and hint at chords that aren’t there. 56 minutes.