Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison: April 15th 2005
From Annie and Steve’s Publicity
Traditional Song in an English Style
Annie Dearman (voice) and Steve Harrison (melodeon, mouth-organ, anglo-concertina, bagpipes) perform traditional songs in a robust and firmly rooted English style, taking their repertory from traditional singers, the folk song collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, manuscripts of past performers of traditional music, printed ballad sheets, and songs and tunes they happen to hear and like.
Biographical Details
Annie sang with several acappella groups with whom she appeared at numerous folk clubs and festivals in the 1970s and 1980s.
After moving to Yorkshire in 1990 she was a founder member of the voice workshop Making Waves
, before teaming up in a duo with Vic
Gammon in 1993. She wrote directed and sang in the show The Festival. Away from music she is a freelance designer and maker of theatre
costumes, back drops and banners, and has recently completed several season's work for the Mikron Theatre Company.
Steve Harrison has lived in Yorkshire all his life. Along with Nick Barber, he founded the dance band Official Brawl in 1986 with whom he continues to play mouth organ, pipe and tabor, bagpipes, whistle and saxaphone. He has played for many Ceilidh bands, morris ans sword dance teams and for a great many community events. He a member of the Long Company Mummers and currently leads English Traditional dance band.
Annie and Steve are residents at the Ryburn 3-step Folk Club in Rippenden, and with Vic Gammon have produced a CD, Black
Crow/White Crow,
which has recently been released by the English Folk Dance and Song Society.