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Bailey Sisters

About Me

We're not sisters, and we don't drink Bailey's!The Bailey Sisters are three friends who enjoy making music together. Karen and Shelley are old friends who sing in the same choir (Duodecimo - also on MySpace) and Aly and Shelley are sisters-in-law-in-law (think about it!) Aly and her husband Phil are members of Eve and the Garden. They first came together musically at one of Maddy Prior's "Singing from the Soul" weekends in Cumbria (highly recommended - go to www.maddyprior.co.uk for more details). The Bailey Sisters came into being in November 2007 during a weekend at Karen's house. We are working on building up a repertoire of mainly traditional and early music, using close harmonies, guitar, fiddle, recorders and a variety of bangy, shaky, scrapy things, including a pig called Tock.Obviously, Manchester and High Wycombe aren't exactly next door to each other, so Karen and Shelley mainly perform as a duo in local folk clubs, under the name "A Sip of Bailey's" - thanks to Karen's Mum for suggesting the name!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/06/2008
Band Website: www.baileysisters.co.uk
Band Members: Aly - vocals, fiddle, percussion, recorder; Karen - vocals, guitar, percussion, recorder; Shelley - vocals, percussion, recorder
Influences: Maddy Prior, Abbie Lathe, Rose Kemp - it's all their fault! (We are, of course, eternally grateful) Eliza Carthy, Emma Kirkby, Eve and the Garden, Bellowhead et al, Karine Polwart, Les Barker, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars, English Heritage, The National Trust, Cecil Sharp, Vaughan Williams
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Navigating our way around the folk world

.................... Bailey Sisters are busier than ever, hurray!  Alys session with Gigspanner went brilliantly.  She had to play a Telemann piece from memory and was a bit nervous about it...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:08:00 GMT

New track, new arrangements

Oh dear, it's ages since we blogged! Sorry about that everyone.We've just spent a very busy day working on a few new songs, and tweaking some old favourites (you will not believe what we have done wit...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:44:00 GMT

More music!

As Shelley said in her last post, life continues to be very busy.  I have started a new job, but don't really have time to go to work when I'm so busy being musical and social.  Take this weekend as a...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:25:00 GMT

New Stuff

Hello!As usual, we are incredibly busy with life in general, but managed to get together three weeks ago to work on some new material and fine tune a few other things.  After a comment made to Karen a...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:42:00 GMT

Wandering with William

Dear me, I haven't told you about our Wandering William weekend yet have I?Well, as expected, it was fabulous.  We met up with some old friends from previous workshops we've done with Abbie and Maddy ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:50:00 GMT

Wandering William

Our friend and mentor the lovely (and ever so slightly bonkers) Abbie Lathe is hosting one of her wonderful singing weekends in Shropshire later this month and all three of us are going!  We've d...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Photos!

Thanks to Aly for uploading the photos of us at Shrewsbury.  Very flash little slide show there!  Also, there is a Facebook album of photos taken by a member of the audience (yes, we did have an audie...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:31:00 GMT

Singing on the Train

Saturday 4th October saw Karen and Shelley taking a "folk train" from Manchester Piccadilly to New Mills.  It was the scheduled service, so I don't know what the normal passengers made of it all!...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Singing in the Rain

Saturday 6th September saw Karen and Shelley (aka A Sip of Bailey's) performing at a fundraising garden party in the grounds of Wycombe Museum.  The event was in aid of Wycombe Winter Night Shelt...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:28:00 GMT

Shrewsbury Folk Festival

Well, we're back from Shrewsbury, and what a lot of fun we had.  It really is an excellent festival with plenty (almost too much) going on.  Over the weekend the three of us (separately and ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:39:00 GMT