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LATEST AS ACTOR
I appear as co-narrator in "America Over The Water", "A Most Sunshiny Day","I'm A Romany Rai" and "You Never Heard So Sweet" - four shows devised and presented by Shirley Collins. "America Over The Water" had its most recent performance on Saturday March 12th 2011 at the Purcell Room on the South Bank.  "A Most Sunshiny Day" had its most recent performance at Cecil Sharp House on Saturday October 30th 2010 as part of an evening promoted by Miles of Smiles, that also included Alasdair Roberts and Trembling Bells on the bill. "I'm A Romany Rai" was last performed on April 17th 2010 at the Elephant & Castle in Lewes. "You Never Heard So Sweet" had its first performance on Friday October 7th 2011 at the Royal Oak, as part of the Lewes folk Festival. Shirley and I also appear as co-narrators in Martyn Wyndham Read's show about the Bush poet Henry Lawson - and the most recent performance was at the Sidmouth Folk Week, in the Manor Pavilion Theatre, on Monday August 1st 2011. With us on stage - No Man's Band - that is Iris Bishop, Gary Holder and John Wigg.

Shirley was awarded the MBE for Services to Music in the 2007 New Year's Honours List
 and a Good Tradition Award by BBC Folk on 2 in January 2008.
She is also President of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

LATEST AS I.T. FREELANCE/ADMINISTRATOR
I develop and maintain the official Shirley Collins website - www.shirleycollins.co.uk - and the website for CBT Consulting Ltd. - www.cbtconsulting.co.uk. For four months I worked as the Administrative Coordinator for the Business Community Partnership in Brighton, and have now taken up the post of Coordinator - Business Action on Homelessness in the Housing Need & Social Inclusion Department of Brighton & Hove City Council.