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ISLA HUGHES:
Vocals, Flute and Whistle
Isla was born and raised in Hong Kong, where she grew up listening to her father's folk radio show, and started singing with her family and friends at Hong Kong Folk Society events. In the year 2000 she was awarded the Carneiges Young Folk Entertainer of the year award with friend and fiddler Eleanor Taylor, and performed on the main stage at the Hong Kong Folk Festival. Isla has been playing guitar since she was 7, but since age 16 Isla has focused on playing the silver flute, the Irish flute and whistles. Now, age 22, Isla has played and sung in various parts of Hong Kong and the world, and is currently in her third year of the Newcastle Folk and Traditional Music Degree.
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JENNIE PAGE:
Fiddle and Oboe
Growing up in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Jennie started learning the violin aged 7, then oboe aged 15, later joining regional orchestras playing oboe and cor anglais. She was classically trained on both instruments but after experiencing Towersey Festival in 2004 she turned her attention towards folk. Her musical tastes are eclectic. She's interested in the traditions of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe as well as the British Isles but also has a passion for early music, musicals and romantic to name but a few.
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SETH TINSLEY:
Guitar and vocals
Seth Tinsley is a guitarist from Corbridge in Northumberland and in 2009 was a finalist in the BBC Young Folk Awards with trio Tyde. Seth joined Spinndrift this year as he met the rest of the band when he came up to start the Newcastle University Folk and Traditional Music Degree. Seth likes all sorts of different music, particularly jazz and blues music as well as more traditional folk and occaisionally some Eastern European stuff.
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FYNN TITFORD-MOCK:
Cello and Vocals
Fynn was born in Stourbridge in the West Midlands. He has been singing since he was little, and began playing the cello at the age of ten. He has also been singing with the youth choir Stream of Sound since 2000, and has discovered several unsung local Black Country songs for them to sing. Fynn is also passionate about baroque chamber music as well as English, Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian, Croatian, German and Georgian folk music.
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NICK WISEMAN-ELLIS:
Melodeon and Fiddle
Nick comes from a small village called Spixworth in Norwich, Norfolk. Since coming to University in Newcastle, Nick has come to enjoy Irish music as well as Scottish, French and other European folk music.
As well as playing box and fiddle, Nick also takes part in traditional dance, mostly Cotswold Morris and East Anglian Molly Dance. Nick also set up and teaches a morris side at Newcastle University. |
| Influences | Isla's: First and Foremost, the family, then Joni Mitchell, Bobby Ferrin, Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee's Pentangle, Bernard Carney, Cath Mundy, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Nancy Kerr, Sandra Kerr, Chris Coe.
Jennie's: Catriona MacDonald, Stewart Hardy, Alasdair Fraser, John Dipper, Aly Bain, Sturla Eide, Liv Merete Kroken, Sigrid Moldestad, Annbjørg Lien, Paul Sartin, Joey Oliver, Gillian Miles, Georgina Reid, David Page, Chris Pyne, Barry Philips, Chris Norman.
Seth's: Eric Roche, Ian Stephenson, Andrew Charlton, Kris Dreaver, Kevin Dempsey and Ali Hutton.
Fynn's: Natalie Haas, Christine Hanson, Wendy Weatherby, Stewart Hardy, Methera, Crooked Still, Boldwood, Blowzabella, and so on and on.
Nick's: Karen Tweed, Julian Sutton, Andy Cutting, Shona Kipling, Nick Carpenter, Kate Ross. BANDS: The Poozies, Blowzabella, The Shee, Swap, Xim, Mooncoin. |
May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide you all the way on x 
