{{Short description|English folk singer and musician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Use British English|date=June 2018}} [[File:Benji Kirkpatrick (cropped).jpg|thumb|Kirkpatrick performing with Bellowhead in 2012]] '''Benji Kirkpatrick''' (born 1976)<ref name="Navigator">{{Cite web |url=http://www.navigatorrecords.co.uk/artists/benji-kirkpatrick/ |title=Benji Kirkpatrick |date=22 February 2017 |publisher=Navigator Records |access-date=13 June 2018}}</ref> is an English folk singer and musician, who plays guitar, bouzouki, mandolin and tenor banjo. A son of folk musicians John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris, he was brought up in Shropshire.<ref name="Navigator"/> Previously a member of Bellowhead,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2007/winners.shtml |title=BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007 |date=2007 |website=BBC Radio 2 |accessdate=13 June 2018}}</ref> Faustus and Steeleye Span, he now performs as a solo artist and also as a member of the Seth Lakeman band. He lives in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mwe3.com/reviews/BenjiKirkpatrick2016/ |title=mwe3.com presents an interview with Benji Kirkpatrick |date=2016 |website=MWE3.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref>
Kirkpatrick's album of acoustic covers of Jimi Hendrix songs was released in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/17/benji-kirkpatrick-bendrix-songs-review |title=Benji Kirkpatrick: Bendrix Songs review – brave set of acoustic Hendrix covers |date=17 September 2015| work=The Guardian |accessdate=13 June 2018 |author=Denselow, Robin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://louderthanwar.com/benji-kirkpatrick-hendrix-songs-album-review/ |title=Benji Kirkpatrick: Hendrix Songs – album review |last=Ainscoe |first=Mike |date=26 September 2015 |work=Louder Than War |accessdate=13 June 2018}}</ref>
==Discography== ===EPs=== *''People'', EDJ Records – EDJ014, 2007
===Albums=== * ''Dance in the Shadow'', WildGoose Studios – WGS291CD, 1998 * ''Half a Fruit Pie'', Fellside Recordings – FECD181, 2004 * ''Boomerang'', Navigator Records – NAVIGATOR 2, 2007 * ''Hendrix Songs'', EDJ Records – EDJ020, 2015 * ''Gold Has Worn Away'', Westpark, 2019 * ''In Phase'', Hedgerow Recordings (UK), Westpark (EU), 2023
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==External links== *{{official|https://www.benjikirkpatrick.com/}}
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