Annie Dearman sang with several Essex-based a capella groups, with whom she appeared at numerous folk clubs and festivals in the 1970s and 1980s. After  moving to Yorkshire in 1990, she was a founder member of the voice workshop Making Waves before teaming up with in a duo with Vic Gammon in 1993, performing mainly political songs. She wrote, directed and sang in the show The Weavers' March (starring Pete Coe, Chris Coe and Vic Gammon) commissioned by the 1998 Ilkley Literature Festival. Since 1999, she has performed in a trio as Dearman, Gammon and Harrison, who have appeared at numerous folk clubs and festivals across England, and in a duo with Steve Harrison, with whom she has been a resident at the Ryburn 3-Step folk club since its foundation in 1992. In 2007 she discovered the potential of the jew's harp as the means of adding texture to a vocal and instrumental ensemble. Annie also performs locally with Chris Coe. Until her recent retirement, Annie's 'day job' has been as a freelance designer and maker of theatre costumes, backdrops and banners, in which role she has been particularly noted for for her 15 year spell with the Mikron Theatre Company. She is a veteran of costume making for the Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival and designed and made the stunning costumes for the Long Company mummers, going strong since 1996 and featured on the cover of Pete Coe's CD of the same name. Away from music, Annie is an active member of the Edgar Wood Study Group, whose aim is to disseminate knowledge about this important Arts & Crafts and subsequently Modernist architect, and is studying painting with Janet Kerr.

Steve Harrison has played and called in ceilidh bands for over 25 years. With Nick Barber, he founded the Euro roots band The Official Brawl in which he played saxophones, bagpipes, pipe-and-tabor and whistles. With Mary Barber and Vic Gammon he founded Rough Music in which he played bagpipes and recorders, and played in the 8-piece renaissance bagpipe band Pipework. He has appeared as a guest dance caller and musician with numerous other bands, including Hooke's Law, Sweet Liberty, English Rebellion, Tight Squeeze and The Red Parrots. He was for many years a dancer and musician for the White Rose Morris Men. Steve is a member of the ceilidh band The Black Box Band with Chris Coe, Chris Partington, Alice Jones & Sue Coe, and of Phoenix, with Rod Stradling, Fran Wade, Mike Pinder & Kevin Bown.Away from the dance scene, he accompanies the singing of Annie Dearman and Vic Gammon in Dearman, Gammon & Harrison on melodeon, mouth organ and banjo, and the singing of Annie Dearman, with whom he is a resident at the Ryburn 3-Step Folk Club, on melodeon, banjo and bagpipes. Steve has recently written the shows Crime, Sex & Retribution in English Folk Song and (with Vic Gammon) The Noisy Frame: the Lives of Cloth Makers in Song & Testimony c1780-1840 (see Current Projects page). Until his recent retirement, Steve's 'day job' was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Manchester, where he led the Health Policy, Politics & Organisation (HiPPO) research group between 2005 and 2011; he continues to undertake some academic work with the group.