Jones hopes to captivate with folk

Rockingham musician Phil Jones will take audiences on a journey next month, as part of the first Peel Estate Winery musical event of the summer season.Jones said he received his first guitar as a seven-year-old in his home city of Liverpool and, inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel, learned to play at 15.

He said he spent years gigging at folk clubs in England before making the move to Perth about 20 years ago.

"When you're young, I think you do it for your own personal satisfaction, but you do mature and begin to find the enjoyment in capturing the audience," Jones said.

"It's thrilling when people get engrossed in the music."

Jones said he had historically played in rock and blues bands but these days enjoyed jamming with fellow bluegrass musicians The Foggy Memory Boys.

He said the band, which plays the last Saturday of each month at The Wine Tree in Dwellingup, paid tribute to Scottish and Irish-inspired North American folk music, with help from instruments, including the mandolin, violin, fiddle, guitar, flat-pick guitar and dobra.

"Even though I've been playing the guitar for more than 50 years, I'm still learning new things," Jones said.

"I've been playing with The Foggy Memory Boys for about three years and it's a different genre than I have played before.

"But I'm predominantly a solo acoustic guitarist."

Jones said he would incorporate slide guitar, finger-picking and some singing into his opening set on Sunday, November 8.

The Peel Estate Winery event also includes Perth pub-rock band Resonator and former The Bayou Brother guitarist Andrew "Walter" Morgan.

Head down from 2pm.