Who we are

• Mark Bazeley - Chairman
• Ed Rennie - Secretary
• Annie Rennie - Treasurer
• Colin Andrews - Committee Member
• Alan Quick - Press Officer

Mark Bazeley

Chairman

Mark Bazeley

Mark is the fifth generation of an Internationally renowned Dartmoor Music Making family. He grew up listening to the music of his grandfather, Bob Cann and The Dartmoor Pixie Band. At the age of six he started playing the anglo concertina and by ten he was playing the melodeon in the band. At seventeen Mark was a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award.That same year Mark took over leading The Dartmoor Pixie Band. He still plays his grandfathers Hohner Overture V Club melodeon in the band, both regularly around Devon and nationally at folk festivals and clubs

Mark is Artistic Director of the Dartmoor Folk Festival. In 2002 Mark and his wife Sarah were rewarded by the Devon Folk Association for their continual work to promote and encourage participation in the Folk Tradtions of Devon through the Folk Festival, The Dartmoor Pixie Band and schools workshops..

http://moormusic.co.uk

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Ed Rennie

Secretary

Ed settled in Devon in 2001. He was born in London and lived for many years on the Surrey/Hampshire borders. Ed has been a morris dancer since he was 18 and for 4 years up to his relocation to Crediton ran a successful Folk Club in Farncombe, near Godalming in Surrey with his wife Annie.

Ed is a professional singer and musician, playing melodeon, guitar, cittern, bass and banjo and works nationally performing at folk clubs and festivals as a solo artist, workshop leader and as a member of dance band The Bismarcks. He has worked as a community musician in Devon and the West Country, both independently and with Folk South West, with whom he has also worked in schools and at residential courses for young persons. His workshop leading skills stem from working as a tutor with Royal Mail.

Ed is especially proud to also play bass, both locally in Devon and nationally, as a member of The Dartmoor Pixie Band.

ed_rennie@hotmail.com
http://edrennie.com

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Annie Rennie

Treasurer
Annie was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire and has grown up around folk music, morris and social dancing. The Family relocated to Surrey and she started dancing in a North West style clog team when she was 13 and she’s still dancing to this day, now with Raddon Hill Clog Morris from Ide.  Annie is Finance Officer at Queen Elizabeth’s Community College, a job which she loves.  Since moving to Devon she almost instantly became a committee member of the Dartmoor Folk Festival Association and this year has taken on the role of dance team organiser.  As a member of the Pennymoor Singaround, Annie is a regular at their monthly club singarounds and is heavily involved with the organisation of the annual Bampton Fair and After the Fair in October.

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Colin Andrews

Committee Member 

Resident in Devon since 1973 but originally from Sussex, Colin has been  a folk singer, dancer and musician  for over forty years.  He plays melodeon, anglo & duet concertinas, guitar, banjo, pipe & tabor & whistle.  He has been a dancer & musician with Exeter Morris Men since 1973,  foreman, dancer & musician with Winkleigh Morris since their foundation in 1990, and  a caller & folk dance musician since 1980.  

For over twenty five years Colin has served almost continuously on the Devon Folk Committee (formerly Devon District Committee of the English Folk Dance & Song Society) and has during that time edited their thrice yearly magazine, What’s Afoot.  He served for two years on the National Executive of the EFDSS in the 1980s. 

Colin  is the author of 3 books of folk dances,  one book of morris dances, and one on the life & songs of  a Sussex shepherd,  now re-published in an extensively revised third edition, with accompanying CD.  

Since taking early retirement from teaching in 1995, Colin  has continued to be actively involved in running morris, dance, music and song workshops for all ages,  and give tuition on playing folk guitar and melodeon from time to time.

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Alan Quick

Press Officer

Devon born, Alan works as reporter and photographer for the Crediton Country Courier. However, his community involvement extends beyond passive reportage; Alan holds secretary posts both with The Crediton Traffic Action Group and The Exeter and District Duke of Edinburgh Awards Committee.

 Alan is also an active member of the Coldridge Parochial Church Council, a bell ringer and organiser of the Coldridge annual village Maypole Dancing. As a long term member of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, he has also been Press officer for the Dartmoor Folk Festival Association for the last 20 years and Grants Officer for the last 10. His involvement with the Festival extends beyond that, as Alan learned to dance at lessons given by Bob Cann, the Festival’s founder.

 And as if that wasn’t enough, Alan is also much in demand throughout Devon as a DJ. 

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