The Unthank sisters, who have been around for several years, come from (and sound it) the North-East corner of England and anything less like the prettyfied South Yorkshire of the kRusby is hard to imagine.

They formed the Winterset about three years ago with Belinda O'Hooley (who certainly lives in Yorkshire but sounds Estuary-ish) on keyboards and Jackie Oates with a voice from Cheshire/Staffordshire heading South-West (who has since left) on 5-string viola. After auditioning every other viola player from the known universe, they finally decided on London-Irish Niopha Keegan who had to come North anyway to manage the Toon Army (for the elucidation of transatlantic people I made that last bit up).