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John Fuller (guitar and flute) is a Newcastle expatriate now living in Darton, near Barnsley. John's
an accomplished flute player as well as a versatile and experienced guitarist. John joined
the band after a tip off from Ron Day about a flute player/guitarist who was looking for a musical project.
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Peter Rophone like many bass players, started out on guitar Though he took up the bass as a
second insrument he soon got the bug and now owns five, plus a recently acquired Romanian
double bass. Always a believer in a bit of showmanship, he has fitted one of his instruments with
a flashing red light that he can activate at key moments, and much to the amusement (or is
that horror) of the rest of the band, has a long standing ambition to play a gig on stilts.
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'Captain' Trevor Lea (caller) started calling for dancing back in 1989 at the University Folk
Society and still calls regularly for them as well as his work with Roger the badger. His
enthusiastic, participatory style is a little unusual, amusing and sometimes frightening as he can
pop up anywhere in the room armed with his headset radio mike. Trevor also does a bit of
ballroom, salsa and merengue as and when he gets the chance. In real life he's a dietician and sport
scientist.
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Cath James (fiddle) has played fiddle since the age of six with groups in and around her native
Hampshire. After becoming a student in Sheffield she joined the University Folk Society and
has played with Roger the Badger from their very first appearance in 1990. Cath was a
finalist in the Radio 2's Young Tradition Award in 1995 and has played in Britain, Germany,
France, Greece and Romania. She teaches folk fiddle playing in Sheffield, Rotherham and North
Derbyshire and in her spare time - what's left of it - makes violins. It is her own custom made
electric that she uses for Ceilidhs though for recording she uses a turn of the century German
fiddle.
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Trevor Thomas (mandolin) has a propulsive and energetic rhythm style that's quite unique and has a background
that takes in alternative rock styles as well as traditional playing. He's a veteran of
legendary Sheffield folk/punk/ska band Blind Mole Rat and has toured various European
countries with them. Like Cath and Peter he's a regular at sessions in Sheffield, where he'll
often take down his double bass and a pocket of harmonicas as well as his archtop mandolin. He
is also the only man in existence to own an electric flying V mandolin - which he made himself.
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