Clare Lindley

Clare Lindley started playing violin at the age of six. She moved on to the viola as soon as her hands were big enough and played until the age of seventeen, performing in various youth orchestras and a string quartet.

She began playing in a professional duo at nineteen, performing a mixture of styles on violin and viola and also singing for the first time. Together with singer-songwriter John Mitchell, the duo Green achieved success on the folk festival scene in Scotland, Ireland, Europe and even Russia, as well as touring with Steeleye Span (-of "All Around My Hat" fame) and playing support to various band such as Capercaille, The Blues Band and Sharon Shannon. In 1998, Green launched their CD Found on the Wave at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.

Clare also joined an all-girl band called The Lemon Tarts and played fiddle and called dances with a ceilidh band for six years. Since moving to London in 1999, Clare has poured pints of beer; (particularly Guinness) busked with a six piece street band and joined two Irish bands. Currently she is getting ready for a tour in Germany with singer-songwriter Jan Allain. She and Brian also play regularly in Six Mile Walk - a Celtic folk band - in London pubs.

Clare has also started the strange phenomenon of running round and round city parks almost every day, breathing deeply the carbon monoxide, in a strange bid to finally get fit. She also climbs walls in her spare time.