"Winter Wilson have a touch of the prolific about them, but when prolific is this good, then we want more please" - Neil King, Fatea Magazine. "In thirty years of listening to folk music, I have never heard two voices blend so perfectly together" - David Aird, Chairman Glenfarg Folk Club and Festival. This is the story of a couple who turned the nightmare of redundancy into a dream of playing music for a living... We gave ourselves a year to see how things would turn out," says singer Kip Winter. "Five years later we’re still getting away with it! It’s not easy, but playing music professionally beats working for a living." Kip and partner Dave Wilson were popular part timers on the UK folk scene and released Winter Wilson albums at their own leisure. But, following the banking crash and global crisis of 2012, things changed for the couple and music became the priority. Since then, critical acclaim has followed their every move and they even made one of the Daily Telegraph's 'Top Ten Folk Albums' of Summer 2014 with the redundancy-inspired 'Cutting Free'. Now, to coincide with a tour opening for the legendary Fairport Convention, the pair release their eighth studio album, ‘Far Off on the Horizon’, another fine collection of self-penned songs on subjects as diverse as migration, old age, young love and Australian weather! The music they make is as sharp in sound as it is observational in message and is delivered with a keen ear for melody and instinctive harmonies. Dave Wilson’s songs pull no punches and are as comfortable in a contemporary box, as they are at home on the floor of a folk club. Indeed, his songs have found their way into the repertoire of many a seasoned floor singer, as well as several other recording artistes. "We never did the gap year thing as students, and we knew we had enough money from our redundancy pay-outs to buy a van and get by for a little while, so I'm glad we said 'sod the daily grind' and got out there," says Dave. 'Getting out there' has included releasing more albums, like 2016’s critically-acclaimed 'Ashes & Dust', and touring them around the world. "Tallullah, our camper van, covered over five thousand miles in six weeks on the first leg of the latest tour," reveals Kip. "We went all around the UK, over to Germany and then around Ireland." Everywhere they traveled, reactions were positive and word of mouth continues to build about the duo’s music. "Winter Wilson have a touch of the prolific about them," declared Fatea Magazine about ‘Ashes & Dust'. "But when prolific is this good, then we want more please." And then, of course there was Australia and New Zealand. “That went incredibly well,” adds Dave. So well, in fact, that a return trip is already in the pipeline for 2019. So what’s next for Winter Wilson? “Well, there’s twenty eight dates with Fairport Convention,” replied Dave, “then we kick off our own ‘Far Off on the Horizon’ tour of the UK, Ireland, Continental Europe and Canada. After that, who knows?” Judging by the determination of these two moving musicians, we won't have to wait long to see and hear more.