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The Deirdres were a Derby, United Kingdom based band often likened to a happy clappy school choir, and described as playing 'rawkus musical nonsense'. Once located within the strange music scene of Derby, the Deirdres consisted of 7 members: Gemma Wood, Sophie Barker, Louise Croft, Robert Fairs, Russell Lomas, Keir Thomas and Amy Burchell. The band rose to fame in October 2006 when they appeared on the BBC Antiques Roadshow programme, where they performed the theme music, much to the delight of Michael Aspell and the crowd. An appearance of Challenge TV soon followed, and the band started playing gigs...

Deirdre Gribbin is a contemporary composer, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1967. She was an award winner in the 2003 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers with her work Empire States, and won a prestigious Arts Foundation Award for her first opera Hey Persephone! which had an acclaimed run at the Aldeburgh/Almeida Opera Festival. Her music has been performed worldwide including The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, UKwithNY Festival, The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and as featured composer at The Taipei Festival, Taiwan. She has written music for British Academy award-winning film My Kingdom starring Richard Harris, as...