Academy Award winning actress Emma Thompson joins the Coal Porters
onstage Nov 30, 2006. Realising he is next to Neil Bob and not Miss
Thompson our own Sid Griffin holds up a plastic fork in protest
L.A. Dodgers fan Steve Wynn, Sid Griffin, the legendary Willie
Nile and Dixie Bee Liner leader Buddy Woodward celebrate
Sid's 2003 campaign for the Mayor of New York City in Manhattan
in May of that year at the Rockefeller Centre
BBC DJ, percussionist, humorist and all around nice guy Mark Radcliffe
begs Sid Griffin to sing yet another song live on the air (January
2006)
a banjo player, British violin prodigy Esther Mae and Sid perform
in Madrid, April 2006
Mr. Handsome, mandolin virtuoso/music scholar
Mike Compton and EuroDisney musician/comedian Percy Copley yuk it
up at SoreFingers Bluegrass School, April 2006
John Porteous, Brian Wilson, Dennis Diken of the Smithereens
and Sid Griffin (1989)
West Coast super group Crosby, Griffin & Nash
reunite (Feb 2005)
Sid, drummer D.J. Fontana, legendary guitarist Scotty
Moore in Scotland smile at end of a wonderful UK tour (1993)
Sid, promoter Nigel Young's son and Lemonhead leader
Evan Dando backstage (the night Eric Cantona kicked that heckler in
the stands in 1995)
Sid with Billy Bragg at the new ultra-modern home
Billy purchased near Nairn, Scotland (1996) Photo:
Kate St John
Sid sitting in with Roger McGuinn at Birmingham at Ronnie Scott's
(1997)
Pat McGarvey, Sid, the multi-talented Bob Neuwirth
perform an encore in Berlin (1997)
Sid playing lead guitar for ex-Green On Red hero Chris Cacavas in
Germany (1998)
Nils Logren n' Sid after Sid opened for Nils in Lowestoft (1999)
Western Electric on a hilltop w/ Amy Rigby & Dr. Phil Dennison,
her physiotherapist (2000)
Western Electric perform with Amy Rigby for BBC Scotland at The Lemon
Tree in Aberdeen (2000)
Sid with Kate St John at a charity performance - Jazz Cafe (2001)
Sid backstage at Toronto's Bluesfest giving a free mandolin lesson
to a promising youngster called Chris Hillman (2004)
Sid at the 2005 Sore Fingers Bluegrass School
mandolin class taught by Tim O'Brien (2005)
Mandolin virtuoso Tim O'Brien on the left and
Mr. Handsome on the right. Tim is clearly a member of the Royal
Society of Nice Guys. Photo: Sue Pomeroy
Sid Griffin at Sore Fingers Week April 2004
learning bluegrass mandolin from the legendary Roland White, the
ex-Kentucky Colonel mandolinist and a terrific person as well. Photo: Sue Pomeroy