ED HICKS PERFORMER
					Ed Hicks is a banjo player, songster, irreverent folk-activist and performer. He has toured the country as Sleepy Ed Hicks, a self-styled itinerant troubadour, bringing the joys of Appalachian dance music and his surreal parodies to audiences young and old. He has also played in a Klezmer brass band in a Belgian Circus, sung "I can't give you anything but love" in every bar between Paris and Athens for a Dixieland swing trio, worked with folk song collector Peter Kennedy, taught banjo to a Daily Mail journalist, a City broker, an anarchist and a former rag and bone man, studied clown with Fraser Hooper and recently taught himself the fiddle mostly whilst sitting next to rivers. As well as his solo projects, Ed is currently a member of the Honk project (musical clown troop), Ramshacklicious, Eel and Toe (cockney music hall band) and has ambitions to dress up as a rabbi. Ed has never slept in an Italian building site!