{{Short description|English band}} {{EngvarB|date=May 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Steamchicken | image = Lbw300.jpg | caption = | image_size = | alias = | origin = Warwickshire, England, UK | genre = cèilidh-swing and jazz roots | years_active = 1993–present | label = Chicken Records | website = {{official|http://www.steamchicken.co.uk/|Steamchicken}} | current_members = | past_members = Katy Oliver – trumpet (until 2018); Ted Crum (died 2020) }} '''Steamchicken''' are a cèilidh-swing and jazz roots band, based in Warwickshire, England, and formed in 1993 by Bill Pound, Andrew Sharpe and Ted Crum.<ref name="Rawcliffe">{{Cite web |url=http://brightyoungfolk.com/records/20-years-steamchicken-1 |title=Steamchicken – 20 Years |last=Rawcliffe |first=Paul |year=2013 |publisher=Bright Young Folk |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref> They have been described as "a band with attitude"<ref name="Buckley"/> and as musically mixing together "folk and Cabaret era swing jazz with panache and style".<ref name="Higgins">{{Cite magazine |last=Higgins |first=Marc |date=2017 |access-date= 30 May 2017|title=Steamchicken – Look Both Ways (Chicken Records) |url=http://www.northernskymag.com/reviews/cd-reviews/steamchicken-look-both-ways-chicken-records |magazine=Northern Sky}}</ref> Their 2017 CD release ''Look Both Ways'', in which they use a full brass section and a driving rhythm section,<ref name="Beeby"/> has been acknowledged as demonstrating their "knowledge of both folk and jazz, polishing traditional gems into sparkling arrangements, and adding successful original compositions to create an eminently hummable album".<ref name="Buckley">{{Cite web |url=http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2017/04/steamchicken-look-both-ways/ |title=Steamchicken – Look Both Ways |last=Buckley |first=Martha |date=18 April 2017 |publisher=Folk Radio UK |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref>
==Band members== {{Infobox musical artist | name = Amy Kakoura | image = Amykakoura.jpg | caption = | image_size = 150px | alias = | birth_place = | instrument = vocal | origin = | genre = | years_active = | label = | website = {{official|https://www.amykakoura.com/|Amy Kakoura}} | current_members = | past_members = }}
* Amy Kakoura – vocals<ref name="Anson">{{Cite news |url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure/features_lancashiretelegraph/15144454.Amy_Kakoura___s_happy_to_have_truly_found_her_voice_with_Steamchicken/ |title=Amy Kakoura's happy to have truly found her voice with Steamchicken |last=Anson |first=John |date=9 March 2017 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref> * Andrew Sharpe – piano * Becky Eden-Green – alto saxophone, clarinet, bass<ref name="Downs">{{Cite news |url=http://www.downsmail.co.uk/news_sport/News/Dream_come_true_as_local_girl_takes_to_Maidstone_stage |title=Dream come true as local girl takes to Maidstone stage |date=8 February 2018 |work=Downs Mail |access-date=12 February 2018}}</ref> * Joe Crum – percussion * Tim Yates – bass * Mandy Sutton – tenor saxophone * Matt Crum – soprano saxophone, melodeon, synthesiser
Amy Kakoura also performs as a solo artist and as a duo with Andrew Sharpe. They have also written a musical together. ''Songs From a Ledge'', in which Amy Kakoura played and sang one of the roles and Andrew Sharpe and Becky Eden-Green provided musical accompaniment, was performed in a production directed by Lana McIver at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham in 2014.<ref name="Whys">{{Cite web |url=http://musicaltheatrereview.com/songs-ledge-old-joint-stock-theatre-birmingham/ |last=Whys |first=Glen |date=19 November 2014 |title=Songs From a Ledge – Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham|website=Musical Theatre Review |access-date=30 May 2017}}</ref>
Founding band member Ted Crum, who performed on harmonica, bass and melodeon, died in April 2020.
==Discography== ===Steamchicken=== '''Albums''' * ''Look Both Ways'' (10 February 2017), Chicken Records, STEAM16/3<ref name="Beeby">{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/webrevs/steam163.htm |title=Steamchicken – Look Both Ways |last=Beeby |first=Dave|magazine=The Living Tradition |issue=118 |publication-date=2017 |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="Zierke">{{Cite web |url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/steamchicken.html |publisher= Mainly Norfolk – English Folk and Other Good Music|title=Steamchicken – Look Both Ways|last=Zierke |first=Reinhard |publication-date=8 March 2017 |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref> * ''20 Years'' (27 July 2013)<ref name="Rawcliffe"/> * ''Calling All Chickens'' (2009) * ''Wingin''' (2006),<ref name= Never/><ref name="Harragan">{{Cite magazine |last=Harragan |first=Bob |url=http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/webrevs/sccd01.htm |title= Wingin'|magazine=The Living Tradition |issue=68 |publication-date=2006 |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref> SCCD01 * ''Never Mind the Dots'' (1999)<ref name= Never>{{Cite web |url=https://www.webfeet.org/eceilidh/bands/steamchicken.html |title= Steamchicken |website=www.webfeet.org |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref>
'''Singles''' *"Gypsy" (9 December 2016) *"When I Get Low I Get High" (5 November 2016) *"Violet Lane" (13 July 2018)
===Amy Kakoura=== '''Albums''' * As guest vocalist on Richard Durrant's album ''A Quiet Word from the 13th Century'' (November 2015), The Burning Deck (TheBurningDeck001) * As guest vocalist on Richard Durrant's album ''Christmas Guitars'' (21 October 2013), Longman Records Ltd (LONGMAN062CD)
'''EPs''' * ''Half an Inch of Snow'' (December 2016)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.steamchicken.co.uk/ Official website] * [https://www.amykakoura.com/ Amy Kakoura's website]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Steamchicken}} Category:1993 establishments in England Category:Musical groups established in 1993 Category:Music in Warwickshire