Folk-rock duo Winter Wilson returns to road at Long Bennington Village Hall this month after two years away

After two years, a Scots-English folk duo is heading back on the road. Winter Wilson is a folk-rock duo made up of Dave Wilson and Kip Wilson.

They will be performing at Long Bennington Village Hall on Friday, January 27, after spending two years away from the road because of the covid-19 pandemic.

While living in Newark, they would regularly attend music events at the Cross Key pub in Upton. After joining a ‘scratch’ band at a New Year’s party, the couple were asked to play every Saturday and they say “the rest is history.”

Since then, they have taken their music around the world and have toured in Australia, New Zealand and Canada as well as Europe and the UK.

The couple were on tour in Germany when the pandemic struck. However, after moving back to Lincolnshire the couple consider themselves “luckier than most”.

Kip said: “We have a small income from other sources, so we knew we wouldn’t starve, and we’re used to spending long periods of time with just each other for company.

“The weird bit was staying in one place for so long — we’ve never done that before!”

To keep busy, they live-streamed their music on Facebook and also raised £5,500, which was equally divided between the MU’s Musicians’ Hardship Fund and their local food bank.

In summer 2021, they recorded their ninth studio album, The Passing Of The Storm’, released in September 2022 and are now back on the road.

Dave said: “We were actually really busy in 2022, which is great, and the audiences just seem to be starting to get back to more normal levels now, but it remains to be seen how normal, and for how long.

“For the moment, our fingers remain firmly crossed.”