Sian Phillips (musician)
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Siân Phillips is a Welsh fiddle player specialising in Welsh folk and fiddle music.[1]
Born in South Wales and raised primarily in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, she gained her knowledge of Welsh folk music from playing with several folk dance groups.[2][3] She has been a member of the following folk and Celtic bands: Bysedd Main, Constitution Hillbillies, Cromlech, Ysbryd, Wild Welsh Women, Celtish, and the Rowdies[4] and guested with many more. She organized an annual music festival, the Fiddle Festival of Wales.[5][6][7] Siân currently lives and has her own business ‘Fiddler’s Elbow Grease‘ making balms from hemp, in North Oxfordshire and retired as a performing musician in 2017 due to fibromyalgia.