Dowlen, Olly

Olly played the guitar in folk clubs in the 1960s and 1970s and played the bass guitar and double bass in folk, jazz and jazz/rock bands. After working as a visual artist and teacher in the 1980s, he returned to music with the Irish traditional band Waxies Dargle for much of the 1990s. He worked with singer/songwriters Don Mescal, Graham Robins and Daniel Spiller.
He currently teaches guitar, plays the double bass with the Russell Williams Trio, is a member of the English dance and early music trio Northern Frisk and is one half of the blues-based duo Kalamazoo Junction.