Rebecca Waite is the elder (and quieter!) of the two sisters.  Growing up in a musical family had its disadvantages as well as benefits.  Folk music was a way of life and, especially as Mum got asked to sing at more festivals, summer meant weekends (or longer) being dragged off to Warwick or Redditch; Shrewsbury or Whitby.  Luckily a love of social dance meant that festival ceilidhs saved her from getting too bored and gradually a few songs to sing in singarounds also emerged and helped to pass the time.

However, Rebecca was never as happy singing on her own as with her mum and sister in family singing sessions – usually in the kitchen while washing up, with Dad, Graham, adding an occasional bass.  She and Mal developed a few duo songs to sing in public too but this fell into decline when Rebecca went off to university to read history.  It wasn’t until post-uni in 2000, when Mal and Katrina were putting together a few songs for a special ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ concert at Chester Folk Festival, that she was tempted back to sing some shoop shoops and then stayed to sing folk family harmony.