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The following summary applies to mayhew, the alternative acoustic band from Edinburgh. Their tracks are available from the radio on the right, and are unrelated to the religious songs of the American folk band Mayhew which are also listed below: "Two acoustic guitars (folk and classical), a cello and a female vocalist, their sound is beautiful...complex folk..." - Out of the Bedroom mayhew formed through a series of chance encounters. The two guitarists happened to meet on the day they both arrived in Edinburgh after leaving their home countries, and discovered a musical chemistry strong enough to start a band....

Virginia Mayhew started on clarinet when she was ten and six years later switched to alto to join her high school jazz band. When she was 20, she moved to San Francisco, where she gained experience studying and playing locally (including with Earl Hines and Frank Zappa). In 1987, she won the New School's first annual Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship and relocated to New York. Since then, Mayhew has worked with trumpeter Rebecca Franks (they co-led a quintet that played at the 1990 Monterey Jazz Festival and recorded a 1988 date for the Italian Philology label), the Toshiko Akiyoshi Orchestra,...