The Lasses have been around for about fifteen years. Sophie and Margot met in an Irish music café in Amsterdam and there was an immediate connection. They recognized in each other their love for folk music from Ireland, Scotland and the US. But above all, their voices turned out to fit together very well.
That two-part harmony has now become second nature to them. “When Margot sings something, a second voice spontaneously arises for me. That usually happens automatically, we don’t have to figure that out technically or theoretically,” says Sophie.
Own Christmas album
The Lasses have now made several albums, toured at home and abroad and collaborated with, among others, the American singer and violinist Kathryn Claire and the Irish singer Luka Bloom. And now there is the collaboration with singer Leonie Janse, known for her collaboration with The African Mamas and her performance at the wedding party of Willem-Alexander and Máxima.
“Leonie had seen us at the Midwinter Christmas party in de Rijp and only years later did she ask us to make a Christmas album together.” That became the album A Celtic Winter, on which the three women perform the most beautiful winter and Christmas songs from the Celtic folk repertoire.
Think very carefully
They now often sing the songs in three parts, which is beautiful but quite difficult. “The two of us cycle around each other a bit, but now that we sing in three parts you have to think very carefully and stick to your voice.”
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