ABOUT
Storm in a Teacup is a folk music and ceilidh band with an international flavour. We play for barn dances, weddings and other special occasions in London, Essex and the Home Counties
We are a four piece band which has its origins in a Morris Dance Group of more than twenty years ago. The current band members have been playing together for around eight years and enjoy playing a range of folk music from around the world, for listening to or for dancing, when we draw on the expertise of our Caller. Our repertoire incorporates tunes from the UK, including some 17th century Playford tunes, France, South America, Russia, the Balkans and the US.
The current line-up is:
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Al Neville started playing guitar "a long time ago" to play his own songs. As well as in our band he can be spotted playing solo and in the bands The Spangles Gang, The Traveling Tilburys and Déjà Vu. He is also very much involved with local charity Redbridge Music Lounge.
Suzanne Eccleston
Suzanne's relationship with the accordion started with Morris dancing and moved on to more challenging rhythms with Storm in a Teacup. She has recently started learning the whistle as a "lighter" option to her accordion!
Frankie Cleeve first picked up a violin when her daughter started to learn and has been playing ever since, despite her family's desperate attempts to stop her. A folk musician who mainly plays English dance music (with anyone who will allow her to play with them) she particularly enjoys the wide variety of music the other band members bring to the feast. She writes a few tunes of her own as well. Frankie is a resident musician at the Cellar Upstairs folk club.
Wendy Kirk
Wendy has played accordion for a number of years for morris and barn dancing. Aside from gigs with Storm in a Teacup, she plays in a recorder ensemble, and also saxophone and accordion in the London Balkan Village Band. She is also known, on occasion, to strum along on an Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer.