A tiny audience greeted the Jill Fielding Band as they came on to perform what was billed as "a great set, covering folk, folk-rock, Americana, Irish, 50s and 60s and classic rock".

In the event the "diversity of music and wonderful three part harmonies" did not quite live up to their promise.

Jill Fielding has a very pleasant singing voice and plays a variety of musical instruments, though only the English concertina, whistle, and some interesting percussive accompaniments, including the bodran, were heard on this occasion.

Shaun McGowan is a fine singer in his own right and a very talented guitarist and banjo player whose vocal and instrumental expertise impressed throughout.

They were badly let down by Nigel Fielding who harmonised well vocally but whose keyboard playing and incessant foot-tapping seemed to have been influenced by the 20 years he had spent "working in clubs in the 1980s as a drummer".

Stabbing away unimaginatively at his keyboard he had in addition activated a synthetic tonal setting on his machine which had the unfortunate effect of robbing almost everything that was played of stylistic subtlety, positively undermining the sterling contributions of his two colleagues. And the pointless banter he tended to initiate in no way made up for this.

However, Jill's sweet expressive voice illuminated everything she sang, particularly the Celtic songs. Shaun's stylistic virtuosity shone in the second half, featuring well-known pop covers.