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DB text~Born in London and brought up in London, Cornwall, Scotland and the South of France, Hermione has studied music with various teachers since attending East 15 Acting School in the late 80's. Her interest in folksong has grown with performance, especially that of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Recently, she has spent some time interpreting Yiddish folksong in a joint venture with her mother, the artist Dora Holzhandler, a Jewish emigre from who came from France before the Second World War.

Hermione Swinford's approach to folk song from the British Isles is traditional, often unaccompanied or with a simple celtic harp accompaniment, drawing inspiration from the original context of the songs and the history of their collection. Although her grandmother Ruchla was a folk singer and her cousin Lionel Rocheman is a Yiddish singer in Paris, Hermione's interpretation is heavily influenced by the English traditional style, producing absorbing reflective versions of the songs that draw out their elemental emotional qualities.~~~786~789~~

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