As you can see from the photograph we are a male/female duo. (Chris is the one with hair and Ian isn’t)!! We specialise in close-harmony arrangements and although we both play instruments in recent years we have leaned more towards using unaccompanied arrangements in order to emphasise our harmony style.
So where do we fit in the music genre? We consider ourselves deeply entrenched somewhere in the multi-faceted world of folk music and like many performers select material from both traditional and contemporary disciplines. A good song is a good song irrespective of the era or discipline in which it was created. Our main target is to find songs that have a good interesting content that will hopefully carry an audience along and encourage them to get involved. (How warming it is to hear a good chorus being sung back to you by a totally absorbed choir).
We do use self penned songs if they fit into a set. Ian has written quite a number of songs that we use on a regular basis. Proudly a number of them have been recorded by other artists.
One of our main interests is maritime themed music and it was this interest in maritime music that has led us into a most interesting and challenging period of our singing life. In 2002 after many years of friendship (and partially through the encouragement of that poor misguided soul Keith Kendrick who was very complimentary about the sound we made)!!, we teamed up with the established duo of Steve Dawes and Helen Pitt to form the four-part harmony group…….
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