Jo Tagney, born in Bristol, learned to read music playing recorders in primary school, and sang a lot of Gregorian Chant in grammar school, and many Beatles songs with her 7 younger siblings, on long holiday journeys. Learned Irish tunes on whistle and Bach on flute while performing with Footsbarn Theatre around Cornwall in the 1970s; sang and played whistle, as a fire-eating gypsy, around Renaissance Faires in the USA in the early ’80s; and played traditional music on various instruments while touring with the Cornish bands Gwaryoryon; then Jack and Jenny Band; then Caracana, around festivals in the celtic countries of the British Isles and Brittany. Singing with Kescana since 1991; playing harp with Telynores since 2014, and solo for four summers in central Japan, in Barakura English Garden.
“I am very delighted to be part of the Maid in Bedlam event!”