shindy::arts - the kitchen girls, line-up of musicians

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Here is a little background on members of The Kitchen Girls to whet your appetite for their music...

Fiona Larcombe

Tanera Dawkins
Tanera is a classically trained cellist who has performed on Blue Peter with The Drones, toured Malaysia with The Chainsaw Sisters, rocked Glastonbury with Lamb and performs on the latest album by The Levellers. She has also composed scores for contemporary dance including Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet and now concentrates on writing film scores. Her latest work has been shown on Channel 4 and she is currently working on a score to be released as part of the Short Film Bureau's programme of trailers shown in mainstream cinemas.

Carol Levi
Carol is a fantastically versatile guitarist who cites her earliest influences as the Carter family, The Stanley Brothers, Earl Scruggs and, of course, Elvis himself. From there it was on to guitar blues, ragtime fingerstyle guitar, Django Reinhardt & Hot Club Jazz, and Celtic music of all types.

She has played with many bands including jazz outfits The Moat House Quartet and Polka dot and the Moonbeams, and during her 7 years in Finland she performed as a member of Visans Vanner, accompanied Nilla Hansen, and recorded an album with Olle Soderholm. Back in the UK she is also known for playing with all-women bands Check it with Charlie and The Isabella Conection, as well as playing for dance groups Broken Ankles and DanceAV.

Most recently she has been experimenting with "techno celt" stuff using loop samplers and other wonderful gadgets!

Judi Wright

Linda Game
Linda is a teacher who works with people aged 6 to 60 and beyond! Her musical escapades cover traditional music, working with dancers and performing in a rock band. She has been playing for the Brighton based American Appalachian dance team Broken Ankles for the last 12 years, and also plays fiddle and keyboard for DanceAV. She is the fiddle player with the rock group The Fold who compose their own material, who were recently filmed for tv when they played at the Lorient International Celtic Festival.

Jackie Allen
Jackie is one of the four fiddle players (please don't ask who plays second fiddle!) in The Kitchen Girls and also formed and plays in a number of other popular bands such as Asha and Token Women. A keen dancer herself she also regularly accompanies Ross Allen in workshop and performance as well as playing for dance groups DanceAV and Broken Ankles.