Annie Power is a traditional singer, born in London of Irish parents. Her father was from Tipperary, and her mother from Buttevant, Cork. Her maternal grandmother came from Eyeries, West Cork, and she has always felt a strong connection to this region and her mother’s people. Annie was a regular singer in sessions around London including the Elgin in Ladbroke Grove, the Sugawn, and the Favourite pub in Holloway on a Sunday morning, with Jimmy Power calling her up to sing each week with the fond refrain “she’s no relative of mine!” Jimmy and wife Kathleen encouraged her to enter the local Fleadh Cheoil, which she did, going on to win the All-England Fleadh Cheoil in Liverpool in 1976.

Annie sang with the Irish group Shegui for three years in Irish pubs and venues around North London and beyond, and in 1983 performed two songs written by Sandra Kerr for a Channel 4 film series People to People, ‘The Irish In England’, about the women and men who came to England in the ’50s and ’60s.

Lily Power is a London-born, Dublin-based traditional singer. She has sung with mostly-unaccompanied, sad-girl close-harmony band Landless since 2013, making two acclaimed albums, Bleaching Bones (2017) and Lúireach (2024). Lily learned to sing from her mother, Annie Power. A founding member of The Night Before Larry Got Stretched at the Cobblestone, Lily was greatly influenced by the singing session scene in Dublin and around Ireland, particularly An Goilin and Inishowen. Sacred Harp singing, old-time music and English folk have also been important influences.