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FORCENRA!

About Me

Forcenra was formed in 2006 by Dora McKinley and Gem Quinn.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/03/2007
Band Members: Dora McKinley: Vocals, fiddle, Piano Accordion, Flute, Guitar, composer and lyricist. Gem Quinn: 6&12 string Guitar, Kick Drum, backing vocals. Dan Chalmers: Bodhran, Hand drums, Percussion. Sophie Harrison: Fiddle.after a spell playing with us, Neal has moved on to other pastures.. We now have the very cheeky and talented Dan, who is very keen to fill the drum spot, and take the band to new heights. We will update the site with new photos as soon as we have them....
Influences: Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy and Steeleye Span, The Bothy Band, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Nick Dow, Rory McLeod, Sheila Chandra, Blowzabella, Django Reinhardt, Christy Moore. Genres: Folk, World music, Blues, Jazz, classical and rock.
Sounds Like: Old human stories of love, betrayal, sport, hunger, death, travel, Earth and Wildness.
Record Label: Looking for a supportive label.

My Blog

Exposure Music Awards...

Helllllooooo,if you love us please go to http://www.tourdates.co.uk/Forcenra and vote for us in the Exposure music awards, it only takes a few minutes, you have to register first but i wat...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:22:00 GMT

Proudly presenting our new CD!!!

oh hooray , having spent years (Litrally) waiting to make a CD, the CD, its finally here, so if you want to buy it, it would be a pleasure to sell it to you.
Posted by on Sat, 24 May 2008 03:24:00 GMT

Recording in London

Hi. We have been in London (Portobello Rd), as a three piece (Dora,Sophie and Gem) Recording with a Marvellous Engineer/Producer called Tony, sharing time at his house, for five days. In this tim...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:07:00 GMT

Trees

Once upon a time, long, long agoThe mountains of the land were barren and coldThe mountains cried to Great Spirit, saying,"How shall we be clothed?" Great Spirit answered, saying,"Don't be sad, for th...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:26:00 GMT

The Golden Studded Priest

have been collaborating with Mr Paul Didge, check out his space which should be in my friends, zere you will find a wicked new tune of his wot i play fiddle on, and check out his photos too to see us ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:57:00 GMT

sleeping people

Why is everyone asleep, it may be the middle of the night, but some of us are awake, trying to study and seriously in need of distraction....
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:53:00 GMT

New Song

Helloo Me loverlies. Just put a new song up which was recorded at StJohns church, in Glastonbury, part of a folk thing there in July. it come out rather well we think. Thanks to Nathan Lewis Williams ...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:31:00 GMT

Input needed

Hello. Just wanted to let friends know that time has been playing trix on us and has been passing very quickly, and not allowing us to play together very much!! which is sad.. we didi have a small 4 t...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:55:00 GMT

Loading tunes

Technology has left me distrusting and partially annoyed at the fact that i can't get the tunes up here without so much hard work, I want to (almost) give up on it!! You probably wouldn't believe how ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:46:00 GMT