Wendy Humphreys Tebbutt (British Columbia)

Wendy Humphreys Tebbutt has the extraordinarily gifted ability to entertain and captivate, bringing audiences to their feet. Accompanying her voice on the Celtic harp, Wendy is well known for her performing and teaching of a variety of music, ranging from the well-loved folk songs of the British Isles and Canada to bright and witty songs written for her. Praising her talent, the Toronto Sun noted: "Wendy Humphreys' sensitive performance of the (Hebridean) folk songs to her own harp accompaniment completely captured her audience." Wendy trained musically at the Royal Manchester College of Music (England), the Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria), the Banff Centre (Academy of Singing and Festival Opera), as well as the University of BC and University of Alberta Opera departments.
Before winning the Metropolitan Opera Auditions (Western Canada) and moving to Toronto, Wendy played harp for the Vancouver and Edmonton Symphony and Opera Orchestras for a total of six seasons. She has performed in recitals, chamber concerts, opera, oratorio and musical theatre across Canada. Wendy has also performed with such groups as the Toronto Operetta Theatre, TO Opera-In-Concert, Music From Sharon, the National Ballet, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and the Allegre and Orford String Quartets. With regard to voice, her operatic roles have included Gretel, Norina, The Fairy Godmother (Cendrillon), Lakme, Susanna, Zerbinetta, and Princess of the Stars.

Wendy's students have won national and international competitions; won scholarships to Banff Centre, Aspen and Aldeburgh Festivals; have sung in opera, chamber music, and oratorio, as well as in musical theatre shows such as CATS, Phantom of the Opera, Show Boat, and at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals. 

As an extension of her recording, performing and teaching careers, Wendy became a specialised kinesiology practitioner and instructor. She continues to teach young and professional musicians; but presently her main focus is teaching courses in Performers' Kinesiology Techniques to performing arts organisations and at educational institutions throughout Canada. She has created a stress release and performance enhancement program for performers and athletes, called "Performing on the Right Side of the Brain", which she teaches at the University of Toronto. She has presented this material for the N.A.T.S. teachers' workshop, the ORMTA Conference 2000, and has been invited to present this in singing masterclasses in Brazil. Wendy is also teaching in the Performance Enhancement Program

Ruth Sutherland

Ruth Sutherland is both a great harper AND a beautiful singer. Born and raised in Woodstock Ontario of Scottish parentage, she spent her childhood summers travelling the highland games circuit as a competitive dancer, while her parents ran their “Little Tartan Shoppe”. She holds a B.A. in Voice at Wilfrid Laurier University, and paid off her student loans by moving to Hamilton, singing jingles and doing studio work at Daniel Lanois' Grant Avenue Studio as a vocalist and harper. Ruth has travelled to Canada, Europe, and the United States. She has twice been invited to perform as a solo artist at the Festval Interceltique de Lorient, in France. Ruth sings not only traditional music, but also her own original compositions. She has released three solo recordings, ("Journeys", "rantin' and rovin'", and in November 2006,"bones & runes" ). Conductor Boris Brott of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra has four times featured Ruth in the Brott Music Festival, both as a solo performer and in front of the National Academy Orchestra. The College of Piping in PEI has featured Ruth on their Christmas CD entitled "Ancestral Voices" along with Michael Burgess. Ruth has performed in high profile concerts with the likes of Leahy, John Allan Cameron, John Renbourne, and a tribute to Stan Rogers. Ruth contributes her singing, songwriting, harp, and percussion talents to Scantily Plaid. She also assisted in the mixing of their first CD.