Lissie has loved singing since she was a little girl, when her mum used to recall that she would spend hours sitting on the garden swing and singing to the world at the top of her voice! She went on to study music and singing with Jane Gregson & Amanda Buckland at Kingston Polytechnic and more recently has been hugely inspired by the teaching of Maddy Prior in Cumbria. Lissie has sung as a chorister and soloist with many different groups at venues ranging from village halls & pubs to the Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room on London’s South Bank and has a love of the harmonies and textures created by layering voices whatever the genre of music. She featured as a regular soloist with Felicitas Chamber Choir with whom she has recorded 3 CDs. Here Lissie particularly enjoyed further experience of singing early choral music, with which she first fell in love at university. She continues to sing early music as an occasional guest performer with the Faversham Waytes. Lissie derives a particular pleasure from her partnership with Christine Adams, who together form the duo 'Fiddle and Faff' as they work together on finding the secret of a song; whether arranging a traditional song, interpreting someone else’s song, or creating their own song, and then sharing that secret with an audience. Their debut CD 'Two Wooden Chairs' was released in June 2015. Lissie also runs Cantiana Music where she enjoys enabling people of all ages and experience to discover their own singing voice and the joy of creating music together as she directs Cantiana Choir and the West Faversham Community Choir, as well as leading the popular Singing for the Soul sessions. Together with Christine Adams, she leads regular singing workshops in Kent.
