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Band Members
JENNIE PAGE
FIDDLE AND OBOEGrowing 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.
Isla Hughes
FLUTE, WHISTLES AND MAIN VOCALSIsla 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 Entertainer of the Year award. Now, age 23 Isla has played and sung in various parts of the world.
Nick Wiseman-Ellis
MELODEON, FIDDLE AND DANCENick 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.
Seth Tinsley
GUITAR AND VOCALSSeth 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 folk.
FYNN TITFORD-MOCK
CELLO AND VOCALSFynn 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 folk music.
