{"id":83,"date":"2015-08-30T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T09:31:28","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and Anne have been together for many years, both as performers and in real life, but the seeds of the group were sown when they started going to the song session at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbeyales.co.uk\/www.star-inn-bath.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star Inn<\/a> in Bath (still very much going on Sundays). There they met Rob and after a while it felt natural for the three of us to start singing together since we&#8217;d done so much of it at the Star.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some short biographies of the group.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 20%;\">\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><strong>Anne Gregson<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.concertina.info\/wordpress_ea_support\/photos\/anne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><strong>Chris Timson<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.concertina.info\/wordpress_ea_support\/photos\/chris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><strong>Rob Winder<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.concertina.info\/wordpress_ea_support\/photos\/rob.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 80%;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 10px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anne has two careers as folk singer and composer. In 2014 she gained a 1<sup>st<\/sup> class degree in music from Bath Spa University and earlier this year (2017) she graduated with a Masters in composition, also from Bath Spa. . Her works include an opera, \u2018Make Room for Mummers\u2019 which has been performed at three festivals to date by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fierydragon.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fiery Dragon Folk Opera Company<\/a>. You can read more about her work as a composer at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annegregson.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a folk singer back in the 1990s she performed at clubs and festivals throughout the UK both solo and as one member of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concertina.info\/cnahome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">close harmony duo<\/a> with her husband Chris, including several tours of the USA. Other interests took her away from performing professionally but she is now coming back to it with Eagle Alley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As well as singing close harmony with Anne in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concertina.info\/cnahome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">duo<\/a>, Chris is respected for his knowledge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concertina.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concertina<\/a>. As a singer he has sung in folk clubs all his adult life and as a musician he leads local <a href=\"http:\/\/englishmusicplayedhere.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English music sessions<\/a>. He also is the engineer at <a href=\"http:\/\/mrpunch.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr Punch&#8217;s Studio<\/a>, a recording studio specialising in recording folk and acoustic music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rob first started singing in Brighton back in the nineteen eighties, and is a great fan of Bob Copper and of the Copper family canon of songs. Following a rest of a quarter century or so, he returned to singing (outside the shower) around 2008. He now co-hosts the regular Sunday night singing session at The Star in Bath along with Tim Graham, and is frequently to be found at other local sessions and gigs. He has an extensive repertoire of mainly traditional English and Scottish songs but also writes and performs a number of his own chorus songs and ballads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and Anne have been together for many years, both as performers and in real life, but the seeds of the group were sown when they started going to the song session at the Star Inn in Bath (still very&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/about-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress5_ea\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}