What do Wandsworth Prison, Cliff Richard and St George's Church have in common? The answer is to be found in an audience with the musician's musician Bryn Haworth and his wife Sally.
Bryn has been a professional musician since the age of 17. Born in Lancashire, he came to London in the late1960s and played with Fleur de Lys until 1969. After a period touring America, appearing on bills with Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane and the Moody Blues, he returned to England in 1973. Tours of the UK followed, supporting such artists as Traffic, Bad Company, Gallagher & Lyle and Fairport Convention, as well as numerous radio and TV appearances.
It is now more than thirty years since Bryn and Sally went for a drive and saw what they thought was a circus tent. Closer investigation revealed a gospel meeting and the rest, as they say, is history. The couple became Christians, which introduced a strong gospel influence into Bryn's music.
For three years in the early nineties Bryn and Sally were on the staff at the SW London Vineyard Church in Putney. Bryn was asked to start a prison ministry and, having offered help to prison chaplains throughout London, was invited to lead a meeting at Wandsworth Prison. This led to a continuing association with prisons nationwide where the Haworths make a tangible difference to the inmates' lives through their evangelistic concerts, music workshops and morning services.
When he is not away performing concerts either solo or with a band, Bryn holds guitar workshops and seminars. At home his guitar is not allowed to gather dust either, any spare time being used to write songs in his studio. Meanwhile, as Bryn's manager, Sally deals with the administration and, as she says, 'all the bits and pieces', including the www.brynhaworth.com website. This autumn Bryn and Sally are packing their bags for yet another UK tour that will bring new audiences to this remarkable musician who, true to the title of one of his many albums, is More than a Singer.
