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The band Eel Pie is based in Sutton, Cambridgeshire, the home village of Ann Steward, Terry Stoodley and Graham Steward, with John Crowe from Wilburton. More details on the individual band members can be found further down this page.

We play English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and American Dance Tunes and sing songs from the Folk Tradition as well as performing our own self-penned material.

We play for barn dances, ceilidhs, concerts, weddings, charity events and special occasions such as Burns Night. We also provide music and song at local Farmers' Markets in Ely, Wisbech, Whittlesey, St Ives and March - at Ely's Apple Festival and Energy Conservation Sessions. Please see the Gigs & Events section for more information on forthcoming gigs and related events.

The band goes out as all four members or as a trio, duo and single entertainers - as the occasion demands.

Ann and Graham Steward organise local folk sessions, John Crowe is a professional musician with the Tollhouse Company and Fen Blow, Ann Steward runs weekend folk music and song workshops in East Anglia and Terry Stoodley has helped start, organise and run several local folk clubs and helped behind the scenes of the Cambridge Folk Festival for 25 years.

Members of the band also play and sing at Old Folk's Clubs and Homes, the Sue Ryder Home at Ely and for people with learning difficulties throughout the area.

The Eel Pie debut CD has just been released. More details in the Music & Downloads section.

To book Eel Pie for your barn dance, Ceilidh or concert please call 01353 778655.
If calling from abroad please dial +44 1353 778655

And... a recipe for Eel Pie can be found here!

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Band Member Biographies

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Ann Steward

Ann started playing folk music over 15 years ago, with a band called Amarillis. For many years she has helped to run folk music workshops for the Folk Camps Holiday organisation and at Belstead House, a residential centre in Ipswich. As well as playing now with Eel Pie, she also leads the musicians at folk dance clubs in Haslingfield and Harston.

Terry Stoodley

Born in Dorchester, Dorset, in 1941, Terry is married to Sue and has four children - no pets. Throughout his adult life Terry has maintained an interest in music. In the late fifties he could be found singing Gilbert & Sullivan with the NOMADS then as a member various skiffle groups (weren't we all).

He founded the Newmarket Folk and Blues Club in 1964 which continued until 1973. During his tenure at NF&BC he played with Anvil and Nicklestoodley two folk rock bands.

Terry had links with the Cambridge Folk Club that went back to 1965, so he began to go there and helped run this club from 1974 to 1983 when he retired.

Between 1976 and 1992 Terry taught guitar privately, at Bottisham Village College as part of the Adult Education Programme and recently at Sutton County Primary School.

Terry was a member of The Radio Cowboys, one of this country's most popular bluegrass bands, from 1975-96. The Radio Cowboys appeared at Cambridge Folk Festival on four occasions, the Brighton Country Music Festival and were the Grand ol' Opry, Newmarket's resident band.

Terry had been a patron of the early Cambridge Folk Festivals, but became a member of the organisational staff in 1973 until 1998 having been a steward for two years, a club tent host for five years, the programme author for eleven years, a compere and stage manager for twelve years and assisted in the programming of the event from 1982 - 1997. Meanwhile, Terry played with The Mannish Boys, a Cambridge based blues band, his song writing partner, Roger Rigby, appearing at the last Suffolk 'n' Good Folk Music Festival.

Terry has released several albums of his recorded works since 1964 and his greatest musical moment to date was to appear on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the Ken Woollard Memorial Concert in 1994, with Ralph McTell, Christie Moore, Loudon Wainwright III, Tanita Tikaram and The Bronte Brothers.

Graham Steward

Graham started the ‘Red Rose Folk Singing Sessions’ 10 years ago at the ‘Chequers’ pub in Sutton (Cambs) and later , at the ‘Three Pickerels’ in nearby Mepal. He plays and sings with patients at the Sue Ryder House in Ely, with adults with learning difficulties in Soham and for Suffolk Social Services Community Relations Unit in Mildenhall.

John Crowe