My friend and colleague Andy Whitfield, who has died aged 70 from bowel cancer, was a composer and performer possessed of boundless energy. Sometimes a creative artist needs to find the right place to apply their talent and, in Lancaster, Andy found that community.
A trained actor, Andy was a circus ringmaster in the West Country, with Del Oro’s Circus and Zoo (1973-74), before taking to the folk-club circuit as one half of the celebrated Valance Brothers. In Mold, Clwyd, in the late 1970s, he helped establish Theatre Camel, with whom he acted and composed.
