Since their early teens, the exceptional musicianship and shimmering harmonies of The Fraser Sisters - Fi Fraser and Jo Freya - have graced albums by the likes of The Old Swan Band and Blowzabella which have since become classics.

While still at school, Fi's abilities as a musician took her into the seminal English traditional group Old Swan Band and initiatives such as John Kirkpatrick's Plain Capers - recordings recreating the original style of music accompanying Cotswold morris. Since then, as well as innovative work with dance bands like Token Women, she has appeared in Ken Russell's television adaptation of The Rainbow and The Widow's Uniform, a musical drama based on Kipling's poetry as well as performing on the original soundtrack of the Bob Hoskin and George Harrison film production Raggedy Rawney.

Her sister, Jo Freya, as well as playing In The Old Swan Band and Token women found her outstanding writing and musicianship led to major festival appearances across Europe with her European women’s band, Freyja and new work with Tanteeka. As a writer, Jo has worked on commissions from a wide range of Arts Councils, including a suite about Lord Byron from a womens persepective, which had its premier at Byron’s estate in Nottinghamshire. As a singer she was chosen to perform traditional English songs for the Saydisc records whichh let to tour of "Songs of Three Nations" Britain, North America. When The Fraser Sisters released a debut CD, it immediately became Mojo’s Folk Record of the Month and was acclaimed by Folk Roots as one of the finest folk albums of 1998. "I can’t remember," wrote one reviewer, "the last time I heard an album where so many of the songs lodged in my brain and just wouldn’t go away", their singing was, another proclaimed "...just so melodically perfect as to wring tears of ecstasy from the world weary." The second CD "Going Around" was heralded as "Fine rich voices and spot on musicianship are the hallmarks of this, the second album from the Fraser Sisters".

Whether working together in Old Swan and Token Women or separately in Blowzabella or Graft, the Fraser Sisters' music and singing is equally inspired by a love of tradition and a feeling for creative innovation.   They are working towards Cd number 3.

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