TANSEY'S FANCY

Tansey's Fancy formed in Australia in 1982 playing Celtic and early music, and performing countless arts centres, festival and campus gigs, with more than 200 concerts in 1983 alone. Band members included Mara Keik, Doug Kelly, James Llewelyn Kiek, Adrian Coleridge, Davoud Tabrizi, Linsey Pollack, Andrew De Teliga and Kim Sanders, and many migrant musician guests. In 1982 they cut a single on the EMI label, ''Aque Serven'' which was sung in medieval Spanish. This was followed by a self-titled album in 1983 which had tracks sung in English, Macedonian, Spanish, Latin, Bulgarian and French. Tansey's Fancy evolved into one of the seminal multicultural music groups in Australia, and in 1983-4 were support act for major tours around Australia by Donovan, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Max Boyce and the Furies. Tansey's Fancy first toured Europe in 1984 with Mara Keik, Jim Denley and Mike Haughton. With guests Paul Miller (and occasionally Paul James) on bagpipes and Danny Thompson (from Pentangle and Donovan) on bass. At the end of that tour, on the advice of Paul James who was their European agent, the group changed its name to Mara!

Members

Adrian Coleridge (violin, mandolin), Davood Tabrizi (darabukha),  

Doug Kelly (gittern, mandora, oud, bouzouki, tamboura,guitars, saz) James Llewelyn Kiek (guitars, bouzouki, bass, tamboura), Kim Sanders (flute, sax), 
Linsey Pollak (gaida, wooden flutes, sax, ocarina), Mara Kiek (vocals, tapan, bouzouki, percussion), Andrew De Teliga, Jim Denley, Mike Haughton