Mr B. Churchard & Mr C. Wright (dates unknown, active in 1890s in Bury St Edmunds)
Throughout the 1890s, Mr B. Churchard and Mr C. Wright were busy playing playing at socials and fetes in aid of the Temperance movement n Bury St Edmunds and the surrounding villages.
Mr Wright played the piano, Mr Churchard sang, and they both played the dulcimer, with their dulcimer duets mentioned a number of times. They played in the ‘East End Minstrels’ together until about 1900 when all newspaper reports stop.
Then unexpectedly, in 1933, Mr Churchard puts in one final appearance in the newspapers, playing the dulcimer as part of the Bury St Edmunds Unemployed Workers Association Concert Party. His talents appeared undimmed after 30 years, the newspaper report commenting: ‘Mr B. Churchard can play a dulcimer in capital style, and his selections proved popular.’ (Bury Free Press 25th March 1933)
Genealogical investigations have not been able to positively identify these men further.
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