Vin Garbutt
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Vin's autobiography is now available in hardback and eBook from www.vingarbutt.com WINNER of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Best Live Act" Award 2001.
Vin Garbutt was an award winning folk singer-songwriter from Teesside, England. His career spanned over 47 years of constant world wide touring (1969-2017), producing 15 studio albums, a songbook and a documentary film (Teesside Troubadour). His songs were inspired by the folk tradition at the beginning of his career, evolving over his career into gritty social comment and life observations. He is
27/03/2026
Vin's son Louis' band JUICE POPS have put their new LP for sale online along with a few new t-shirts too! You can grab one on Bandcamp:
Juice Pops Juice Pops. Manchester, UK.
Mike McGrother and the Wilson Family were the special guests of Pete Davies who put on a brilliant night at Toft House, The Home Of Unpopular Music last night. Thanks Mike for singing Vin’s Valley Of Tees. Vin was mentioned by every person that took to the stage and got a big cheer every time. It’s so nice that he is still included in our collective musical memories. Thanks Pete for putting the night together and for your great set of self penned songs.
01/01/2026
JUICE POPS have just released their first album and Vin’s son, Louis, is the drummer. Go give it a listen!
Happy new album! Living Books is now available on all streamers.
We can’t quite believe it! This collection of songs has taken a long time to finally be in a position to share with the world. Some of them started a decade ago. Recording them was an amazing experience. We spent hours in our little practice room mixing these tracks together as a band. We’ll forever be in awe of Greg’s infinite patience while we spent days agonising over the smallest of details that definitely nobody will notice. It was a great learning experience if not a bit tortuous for us at times, but we can definitely say that each song was given a lot of TLC. We are proud of it and each other. We love making music together. We hope you like it.
Living Books
Written, performed and mixed by Juice Pops
Recorded at Pinhole Sound Studio
Mastered by Peter Beckmann
Artwork by Fernando Cari and Juice Pops
I was in Saltburn today. Thanks to Mike McGrother and the Infant Hercules choir for a fabulous afternoon of songs from Vin Garbutt’s repertoire. Laughter and tears as usual!
16/06/2025
Vin's mandriola featured on The Repair Shop (BBC) One of Vin's instruments has been featured and fully restored on the BBC show, The Repair Shop
15/06/2025
We've just found a bunch of CD stock we never knew we had! Thought they had all been sold for good. So we have made the following items available again on www.vingarbutt.com/shop.
- The Vin Garbutt Songbook CD
- The Vin Garbutt Sognbook CD & Book Bundle
- Bandalised
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