Background
Rebekah Findlay was born and raised in Teesside.
Rebekah Findlay was born and raised in Teesside.
She studied violin in Hartlepool from the age of 3 and a half.
Regularly playing with Ceilidh band Burning Bridges in her teens and on occasion alongside Ron Angel, of the Teesside Fettlers, as stand in fiddler with the Cleveland Bays. Findlay stopped playing music for 10 years while she entered the world of work as a graphic designer, she returned to music around 2007 quite by accident, learning the guitar and singing in local folk clubs. Findlay also plays with session band FiddLyn Manitoba Doris.
Together they play a range of music from contemporary songwriters, traditional sources and self penned work.
FiddLyn Manitoba Doris play at the Hebridean Celtic Festival every year.