Accompaniment by Simon Mayor in a specially commissioned arrangement for the
mandolin family of instruments (mandolin, mandola, mandocello) 

After spending thirty years and almost one thousand miles apart in England and the South of France two sisters from Staffordshire, Hilary James and Janet Giraudo, discovered a talent for singing together. This track, recorded in England in August 2008 is a taste of a first album scheduled for release in 2009. The sisters sing in a wide range of styles from classical to folk and swing, including some French and English traditional songs.

Click on You Tube to hear 'Laudamus te' and also see additional images of Hilary James & her sister Janet Giraudo 

Spiritually rooted in folk song she may be, but her superb voice easily crosses the great musical divides and is equally impressive singing blues, torch songs and classical pieces by Fauré and Handel.  
 
Hilary James is an accomplished double bassist, guitarist and mando-bassist. Her giant bass mandolin is now her trademark. She appears in concert regularly with long-time partner, mandolin virtuoso and multi- instrumentalist, Simon Mayor. You’ll usually find them as a duo, but they’re also half of Britain’s first modern mandolin quartet with Richard Collins and Gerald Garcia collectively known as The Mandolinquents. 

Visit Hilary's website www.folksong.co.uk

As a teenager Janet headed for the South of France where she met and married Robert Giraudo, a local man from a village twenty miles inland from St Tropez.  She only discovered her singing voice last year and at the same time discovered she shared the family talent for painting. She has two sons, teaches English and runs gym classes in what must be the fittest village in the Var!

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