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For those of you who know me and for those of you who are beginning to get to know me, you will know that i am the female singer/songwriter for the band Northern Quarter.http://www.myspace.com/northernquarteracousticI have always had a very special interest in music for as long as i can remember, and i was lucky enough to be gifted with the ability to sing. My parents, esecially my dad, was into the Beatles, the Kinks, etc and he used to listen to Radio Luxemburg and the Sunday Top 40 Charts. So music was always around me from a young age...(luckily my dad had good tatse!!)I started singing from an early age, in choirs, school plays, in front of the mirror with a hair brush!!!It was only when i moved to Loughborough in 1990, and started working behind the bar at The Three Nuns Pub, that i thrown into the world of cover and tribute bands. And i thought to myself...’this is fantastic,!’, the idea of performing in a localised music circuit.....i can do that.....and i’m glad i did.Through the years i have sang with some fantastic people, talented bands and made a great many friends along the way.But it was only by chance or fate (as i like to call it), that i met Gerry Farrow and joined up with him to become Northern Quarter, and it wasn’t long before we both realised that we sang fantastically together and that we had a gift for writing our own songs.We perform mostly as an acoustic act, that focuses on our ability to harmonize. And we gig around the local area on the Folk & Acoustic circuits, and i love doing Open Mikes.I am not musically trained, i can’t read music, but i can hear the melodies and words in my head, and Gerry works it out on guitar and vice versa if he has a tune but is struggling with the lyrics then i find the words to fit the tune.My writng style is poetic i guess, i like to write about what i’ve experienced and seen, love, relationships, heartbreak, empowerment, freedom and the state of the world today.My songs are stories and as long as i continue to write songs the more stories i’ll have to tell and sing about.So watch this space and i’ll keep you up to date through my Blogs on what i’m up to perfomance wise and any new material i’m working on.