Biography

Tom Kitching picked up the fiddle as a young boy, but hated the Classical music people wanted to teach him. The fiddle was duly put aside. When he was old enough to get into pubs without being thrown out, Tom discovered folk sessions, and the fiddle was resurrected! Learning from wonderful local musicians such as Shetland Bill, Chris Perry and 'Sean Heeley, the Phantom Phiddler', Tom’s style couldn't help but grow to take on some very distinctive characteristics. He is essentially an English style fiddle player, but incorporating a wide slice of traditional fiddle styles from all over the world.

He joined Steal the Recipe and The Fox Hat within a couple of months of each other in 2003, and was a finalist in the BBC Young Folk Award 2003, also winning a musical scholarship to Loughborough University. He joined Albireo in the summer of 2005. Tom is now heavily in demand for his unique style of playing, and can be found deputising for a number of bands around the country, as well as playing regularly with Paul Sullivan, Albireo and The Fox Hat! Now having completed a degree in politics at Loughborough University, Tom is playing full time around the country. Any one of his projects is just a click away from being booked!