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Miranda Sykes Born In Spalding Lincolnshire In 1978 Is An English Folk Singer Double-Bassist And Guitarist. As Well As Her Solo Work She Has Recorded With Show Of Hands Including As Show Of Hands With Miranda Sykes And As The Duo Miranda Sykes And Rex Preston With Mandolin Player Rex Preston. Sykes Was Born Into A Musical Family And Started Playing Double Bass At The Age Of Eight. Later She Studied For A BTEC In Pop Music And Completed It Remotely While Touring With A Band. In 1999 Aged 21 She Joined The Folk-Rock Band Pressgang As A Bass Guitarist And Toured With Them Internationally. She Performed With Robb Johnson On His 1999 Album The Big Wheel And Toured With Him And With Fiddle And Viola Player Saskia Tomkins As A Trio Releasing Three Albums Together Including As Robb Johnson With Miranda Sykes & Saskia Tomkins . Subsequently She Joined The Band Firebrand Releasing The Album "Lost Lady Found" In 2001. She Toured With English Folk Singer Bill Jones' Band In 2001 And Performed On The Band's Live Album. She Then Toured With Jones In A Trio With Sarah Wright Flute And Bodhrán And Subsequently In A Duo Featuring On Jones' 2003 CD "Two Year Winter". Sykes Toured With The Phil Beer Band From 2003 To 2013 And Joined Show Of Hands For Their Performances At Summer Festivals In 2004. The Live Album "As You Were" Was Recorded During The Tour And Released In 2005. Encouraged By Melodeon Player Gareth Turner She Formed Her Own Miranda Sykes Band That Included Imogen O'Rourke Martin Fitzgibbon And Maartin Allcock Releasing An Album In 2005. In Demand Both As A Double Bassist And Singer She Has Worked With Steafan Hannigan Leon Rosselson Roger Wilson Alan Burke Kirsty McGee Jenny Crook And Little Johnny England And Has Toured Throughout The United Kingdom North America Canada And Europe. Sykes Worked With John "Rabbit" Bundrick Sarah Allen And Roy Dodds Whilst Recording Reg Meuross’s Album Short Stories In 2004. After Touring With Meuross A Second Album Still Was Released In 2006. Sykes Toured With Martyn Joseph As A Duo In 2007. Joseph's 2007 Album Vegas Featured Songs From The Tour On Which She Played Bass. After Performing With Bath Band The Scoville Units In 2009 Sykes Met Mandolin Player Rex Preston. They Toured As The Duo Miranda Sykes And Rex Preston For Eight Years And Released Three Albums Together. She Toured Solo Shows To Promote Her Solo Albums "Borrowed Places" 2017 And "Behind The Wall" 2018 . read less