Are Emma Heath and Mark Davies. On occasion they perform with an extended line up. This has included Jonathan Draper, Brian Stone and Izzy MacLachlan

Extraordinary Folk

Powerful Tribal Roots music, drawn from the Marches - with world influences. Their songs are inspired by local folklore and written and performed with a contemporary edge.

"They let rip with a joyous tumult of noise!"

The Living Tradition Magazine.

Visit youtube - Emma and The Professor Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2007 and emma and the professor at Ludlow Assembly Rooms to see live performances. (Recorded by Pete Simmo - simmo7ts)

“…. Emma & the Professor and Jonathon Draper are a captivating mix of Celtic and oriental influences. Delivered with fine acoustic instrumentation and haunting vocals from Emma Heath, – main stage next year please."

By Phil Bull e festivals for Off The Tracks September 2007

" Emma and The Professor captivated the audience with their powerful and daring arrangements of traditional songs, with transitions from subtle and sublime to driving and bluesy within one song! Coupled with friendly and engaging banter, Emma and The Professor are a fantastically engaging duo. "

Nick Duxbury - Chipping Norton Folk Festival

"Mark Davies is an absolutely brilliant bodhran player, from the midlands, who has to be heard to be believed...listen out for him!"

Diarmaid O'Kane

" Great vocal and bodhran duo with plenty of energy, and an infectious stage presence! "

Flook

" Original acoustic music played with refreshing energy and attitude"

Steve Knightley - Show of Hands

" Emma's passionate vocals accompanied by the hypnotic bodhran playing of Mark, transports the listener with some of the most exciting sounds on the music scene today "

Karen Butler & Alan Wittaker (Solfest)

" It is an organisers dream to happen upon relatively unknowns who blow you away. Mark is pushing the bodhran across all musical boundaries and Emma, well we're simply gobsmacked. The best new female voice we've heard this year "

Both Sides of The Tweed

"The perfect festival artists who joined in with the spirit of the event as performers and participants...an absolutely class act who stole the festival "

Glasson Festival

" The musical stew they cook up is uniquely theirs. The boundaries get pushed and the rules broken and all in the name of finding new life in old songs "

The Living Tradition Magazine

"One of our best ever gig nights, all round! "

Kelso Folk & Live Music Club

Thank you so much to all the people who have helped...Sarah Lockitt, with lovely photos/design, Steve Klick for recording some of the songs...more to come, Jon Crowe for revamping the myspace, Pete Simmo for filming us at our gigs and everyone else who has helped in whatever way, big or small!!!