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My singing career really started in the second year of Junior school when I fell in love my teacher Ray Leah, who could play the guitar and sing.
I first took to the stage aged 8 when I was the singer with a song and dance troop who practiced in the school play ground.
Aged 10 I formed with Alister Cook and Robin Cook a « Peter Paul and Mary » style folk band The New Forest Rovers and actually got a gig in a pub. Well, we did our spot when the real band The Little People, took their break, the rest of the evening was spent in the pub garden playing on the swings and drinking coca-cola. The course of my life was set, except for the swings and coca-cola.
I left school at 17, and took my untunable 12 strin ECO guitar to London for a 3 month training period at Miko's Kentish Town School of Street Performance, then took to the road. A road that was to lead from Ireland, to Australia, Thailand, Greece, Spain, Yugoslavia and finally, 3 guitars, 2 mandolins, an accordion, a fiddle, a horse, a goat, 3 husbands and 5.5 kids later, to the scenic commune of Mauron En Brocéliande.
On the way I gained a wide range of musicale experience playing and singing with groups such as
Miko and the Mikettes (anything that would make money)
The Oroonies, (Influential early pan based trance outfit)
The Bold Marys (Runners up in the Buttervant Busking festival one year around 1990)
Doctor Quatermass and the Experiments (Romanian Rock band)
The Tree Chords (Ariege Irish Folk)
Lugnasa (Celic heavy metal)
The Soup Queens (a cappella glam)
Mary Hail and the Willing Sinners (London Irish folk)
The Joseph Schnider Set (Sick Elvis covers with close to harmony backing vocals)
Eskandalo (Festive latino Ska)
Cherry Tree Lane (Posh girl with a cello)
The Country Geeks (what it says on the label)
The EASY (jazz pop)
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