WITH a recent resurgence in the UK folk scene it can sometimes prove difficult to produce something which is a little bit ahead of the curve.

For a music genre which has been around for centuries, a lot of what is produced today is just a variation of what has gone before it.

However, when you put seven of the UK’s top instrumentalists together you are bound to get something a little bit special.

The distinctive music of Leveret and Spiro will be flying the flag for new English instrumental music as part of the The Eccentric Orbits Tour which comes to the Haymarket on Friday, 9 March.

But how did this collaboration of musical minds come about in the first place?

"We were invited to do a festival in Lancashire called Homegrown where the organisers wanted to do an all instrumental headline," Rob Harbron concertina player in Leveret explains to The Gazette.

"It was such a great night so we thought lets take it on the road. The funny thing is when we start this tour it will only be the second time we are all on the same stage together."

What makes this unique endeavour even more intriguing is the different stylings of the two groups involved.

Harbon adds: "For us (Leveret) it is all instinct and bouncing things off of each other. Where as Spiro are a lot more structured.

"The shows should be a real mash up of the two ways of working but we aren't quite sure how it is going to go."

For Leveret it is this element of improvisation which has brought them to the attention of many a music fan, added with their modern twist on English folk the trio, completed by Andy Cutting (melodeon), Sam Sweeney (fiddle), use the element of surprise to their advantage in their live shows.

"We know what our repertoire is so we know what we have to work with, but as to how it goes each night it just depends on the responses between us and those cues could send things off in a different direction and it makes things really fresh.

"It also means that a certain tune in our repertoire will never sound the same."

For more information or tickets visit anvilarts.org.uk.