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Their
love of singing brought them together as a harmony group, with a mainly
traditional repertoire, both accompanied and unaccompanied, and their
sheer enjoyment of the music is really communicated to an audience. One
comment was "you lot make an audience feel good because you look as
if you're really enjoying yourselves".
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Will and Chris Lingard
Will and Chris have been singing in and
around folk clubs and festivals from the early revival days. Mainly
traditional in taste, they enjoy singing a wide variety of English /
Irish material. Both are talented instrumentalists (guitar, fiddle,
accordion, recorder) and are founder members of “Quadrille” – a
busy ceilidh band working in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Stephanie Emmett
First sang folk in the late sixties at
the Selby Folk Club. She moved to Hong Kong and, during her 25 years
there, founded the Hong Kong folk society. She sang in several folk
groups and was the first musician for the Hong Kong Morris dancers! In
1998 she returned to her native Yorkshire, where she also sings with the
Silsden Singers and other friends.
Paul Reade
Started singing during his student days
in Leeds in the mid-sixties, moving on to be a well-known figure on the
Manchester folk scene as a solo singer and in a duo with Al Lawrence. He
organised a number of folk clubs, and was for many years one of the
residents at the legendary Manchester Sports Guild (MSG). He moved to
East Lancashire, where he also ran a number of clubs, and is currently
one of the residents at Skipton Folk Club.
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