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Andrew and Margaret have over 20
years experience of performing together and have a reputation for
playing with great sensitivity, enhancing the tunes with their own
arrangements. From the mid 1970’s they were fortunate to learn many
tunes from playing alongside older Northumbrian musicians,
especially Joe Hutton.
Their repertoire is extensive and includes tunes from
Northumberland, Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America.
Individually, Andrew and Margaret have both won competitions at
traditional music festivals for solo playing and compositions.
Together, they have won numerous duet competitions.
In addition to smallpipes and fiddle, they also play Swedish
bagpipes, hummelchen, guitar and whistle.
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Andrew
first became interested in traditional music over 25 years ago. It
was after hearing recordings of Joe Hutton, George Atkinson and
Billy Pigg, and also Anthony Robb playing at Newcastleton Festival
in the mid 1970’s that he decided to learn the smallpipes.
He plays a 14 keyed set of pipes in F by Colin Ross, a 17 keyed G
set by Andy May, Swedish pipes by Alban Faust and guitar by Nigel
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Margaret
grew up
in Northumberland among its heritage of tunes, songs and stories.
She learned to play the smallpipes with Joe Hutton, and took a
degree in music at the University of York, where she studied piano
and singing.
She plays fiddles by Jamieson of Edinburgh (1851) and David Mann
(Hexham Violin Shop), hummelchen (Renaissance bagpipes) and whistle by Alban Faust.
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