Chris Wood & Andy Cutting

Chris Wood & Andy Cutting

Chris Wood & Andy Cutting are an English folk partnership centred on the musicians and composers Chris Wood and Andy Cutting. The pair begin working together in 1989, after meeting two years earlier at Sidmouth Folk Festival, and they tour extensively. They make five albums together.

Chris Wood

Chris Wood is an English folk musician and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and also sings. His work draws on traditional English dance music, including Morris and other rituals and ceremonies, and his background includes English church music. His repertoire also includes French folk music and traditional Québecois material.

Andy Cutting

Andy Cutting is an English folk musician and composer. Through his collaboration with Chris Wood, he is introduced to Québecois music and shares an interest in English and French dance music.

Other work

Wood & Cutting also appear with Karen Tweed and Ian Carr in The Two Duos Quartet. That group releases one album, Half as happy as we.