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Elizabeth

Fiddle

Photo of Elizabeth's fiddle

Elizabeth grew up in Gloucester in a musical family. She studied music at university and trained as a teacher before deciding that forcing learning into teenagers was not the career for her and she would rather keep music for fun. She joined Abella Barn Dance Band (formerly Coproliters) in Bedfordshire in 2008 and became hooked on playing music for dance. Elizabeth moved to Leicestershire in 2012 where she is a morris dancer and plays violin in two Leicestershire amateur orchestras. She joined Moggy in the Wood in 2025.

Bob

Guitar and Mandolin

Photo of Bob

After a mix up at the hospital Bob was taken from his aristocratic parents and made to live in Glasgow by Episcopalian fundamentalists where he was brought up as an altar boy. In spite of being subjected to Roger Whitaker and Val Doonican at an early age, Bob developed a great affection for the guitar and has played for about forty years. He has lived in Leicestershire since leaving Scotland 1988 (to avoid the poll tax). He plays mandolin banjo and fiddle for several morris dancing sides. His debut performance with Moggy in the Wood was in 2013.

Humphrey

Accordion

Humphrey playing the accordion

Humphrey learned musical and circus skills at a young age, but he discovered that simultaneous accordion-unicycling is not required at Moggy in the Wood gigs, so he contents himself with just one. He has played for Morris dancing and ceilidhs since 2011 and is currently a musician with Boggart's Breakfast. His IT prowess and sound engineering background landed him the illustrious and exciting (and surprisingly without too many other volunteers) job of managing the website and other technical shenanigans. He joined Moggy in the Wood in 2021.

David

Caller, Guitar, Tin Whistle and Bodhran

David playing the Bodhran

David started going to folk dances around 1970 when he discovered that they meant you could actually get your arm around lots of young women as well as drinking beer and listening to (occasionally) good music. He has actually danced nearly all the dances he calls and, with other bands, accompanied them as well playing guitar mainly but also bodhran (celtic drum), mandolin and whistle. Since he took up calling he has discovered that the whistle gets in the way a bit and he can't play guitar and think about the dancers at the same time (single tasking male). This is why, when calling, you will usually see him beating a bodhran which also acts a bit like an accelerator should it be required.