STRAWBS will feature both their acoustic and electric identities for their 2016 Summer ‘Plugged and Unplugged’ UK tour.

For the electric element of the show STRAWBS will be joined by ADAM WAKEMAN, the UK’s hottest young keyboard player.

Adam Wakeman started playing classical piano at the age of eight.  Much of his early touring was with his father Rick Wakeman in the UK, Europe, Russia, South America, and the USA and Canada.

Rick Wakeman was the first Strawbs keyboard player before he left to join Yes.  Adam Wakeman has previously toured and recorded with Strawbs, as has his brother Oliver Wakeman, an unprecedented sequence of events!  No other band has had three Wakemen in the line-up!

At the age of 24 Adam Wakeman won the award as “Best New Talent” in America’s ‘Keyboard Magazine’.  He is currently touring with Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne, and has recently toured as part of Slash and Friends.

Strawbs will be joined on drums by Adam Falkner who has played for the past year with Dido. Another recent highlight of his career was acting as MD for multi-million selling singer Amy Macdonald.

In the 1970s Strawbs had seven consecutive albums on the Billboard Top 200 chart in the USA, and sold over three million albums including ‘Bursting At The Seams’, ‘Grave New World’, and ‘Hero and Heroine’.  The front line of Strawbs for the 2015 tour is as it was in 1974 with leader David Cousins on guitar & vocals, Dave Lambert lead guitar & vocals, and bass player Chas Cronk.