Monday 5th March 2012
Warminster’s very-own acoustic performer Chico Holton has been in touch with dannyhowell.net. With over 40 years of music making to his credit, going way back to the 1960s and his time in the Warminster group the Kingpins (remember them?), Chico is still very much part of the local scene, both performing and recording.
He says: “I really don’t do my covers act anymore. Too old I think, but I still continue to play folk and acoustic clubs where I perform the music I have written and hopefully, music I’ve yet to write.”
And Chico adds: “Since the beginning of this year I have been running, along with ace Bristol singer/songwriter/guitarist Hilary Pavey, the Bath Acoustic Club held monthly at the St. James Wine Vaults, St. James Square, Bath. BA1 2TW, on the first Wednesday of every month at 8.00 p.m.”
He is also organising a concert at the Athenaeum, Warminster on Saturday 6th October, as part of the Warminster Festival 2012.
And Chico shares his musical likes and influences by presenting his long-running show on WCR every Monday night 8 – 11 p.m. It’s called The Roots & Roll Show. He says “Check it out sometime.”
And if all that is not enough and you really want to go into Chico overdrive, see his other work as a much-admired artist (pen and ink prints), as well as the chance to listen to his music, on his websites:
www.chicoholton.com (you can hear snippets of most of the songs that he has written on the Discography page) and
www.myspace.com/chicoholton (where you can check out eight songs in their entirety). Chico informs us that his My Space home-page lists five songs, and below that, if you click on the line that says “See All Featured” a total of eight songs will show. Chico says: “There are a couple of videos of me playing songs while I’m sat on my fireplace at home, on there as well.”