14 Apr 2018

Tony Backhouse - A cappella

From Saturday Morning, 11:05 am on 14 April 2018

Tony Backhouse was a founding member of The Crocodiles, and after the band's demise in 1981, moved to Australia and continued playing, performing and arranging with a range of Trans-Tasman artists including Dave Dobbyn, Tim Finn, Renee Geyer and Joe Walsh. He moved into a cappella and gospel music in the mid-1980s, and has gone on to compose and arrange for a cappella choirs, as well as teaching and touring those interested to areas of the world in which gospel choirs are popular including the southern states of the US. He also performs and records with pianist/composer Peter Dasent under the Blessed Relief umbrella, with Fane Flaws in No Engine and with both Peter Dasent and Fane Flaws as The Bend.

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