Lucie Skeaping
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Biography
Lucie Skeaping, born Lucie Finch in London, is a British singer, instrumentalist, and broadcaster. Following training at the Royal College of Music, Skeaping co-founded the ensemble The City Waites, which performs 17th-century English broadside ballads and dance music. During the 1980s, Skeaping worked as a children's television presenter for programs including Play School, The Music Arcade, and Make Music Fun. Skeaping appeared as a member of the Michael Nyman Band in the film The Falls (1980) and performed with the ensemble The Sadista Sisters. To explore her Jewish heritage, she founded the klezmer group The Burning Bush. Skeaping toured and recorded for labels including Saydisc, Hyperion, and Decca. Skeaping became the presenter of the Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3. Her publications include Broadside Ballads (2006) and Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs (2014).
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City Waites/Lucie Skeaping
Lusty Broadside Ballads & Playford Dances from 17th Century England
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- Blue Cap
- Work(s)~The Chirping of the Lark / Parsons Farewell
- The Crossed Couple
- Bird List Song featuring Lucie Skeaping
- The Farmer's Cursed Wife (Lillibulero)
- The Broom of the Cowdenowes
- Will You Come featuring Lucie Skeaping
- Turtle Dove featuring Lucie Skeaping
- Shall I be an Angel, Daddy? featuring Lucie Skeaping
- Bobbing Jo
- The Traders Medley
- Lumps of Pudding by The City Waites
- Diddle diddle (Lavenders Green)
- We be Soldiers Three
- Work(s)~Nine Pins / Jenny Pluck Pears / Half Hanekin
- Branles
- The Three Ravens
- My dog and I
- The Merry, merry Milkmaids
- The Northern Lasse's Lamentation
- Newcastle
- The Jovial Broom Man
- The Baffled Knight
- Paul's Wharf
