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The Singing Kettle were a folk music group who were well known for performing traditional children's songs with a distinctly Scottish flair. ==Career== Husband and wife Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise started touring as a folk singing duo in the mid-1970s. The group name "The Singing Kettle" came about in 1982. Their first venture under this title was a children's album, featuring everything from traditional Scottish rhymes to songs learned on their folk tour of the USA. For certain tracks, real children were used, including their daughter Jane, creating the first set of "Kettle Kids". The idea came of turning "The Singing Kettle" album into a show, as they were unimpressed by other, few, children's theatre shows at the time. The show toured to primary schools, with the idea of clues for songs found inside kettles, and for this they recruited their friend, musician Gary Coupland. The touring show eventually developed into a more plot-led piece of musical theatre and they began performing in large scale theatres across the country. Over the years the Singing Kettle have presented their own specially written shows including The Boogie Woogie Zoo, The Time Machine, Pirates, Wild West Show, Medieval Madness, World Tour, Funny Farm, and Homemade Band. Additionally some of their shows have raised awareness of important topics, notably road safety (Busy Road Show), good dental hygiene (Tooth Happy Songs) and pollution (one of the Adventures in Kettleland episodes). They were joined for a time by Cilla and Artie's daughter, Jane, who left to be in the electro band Motormark, replaced by Kevin McLeod – the former company stage manager. In 2003 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released ''The Singing Kettle: Singalong Songs from Scotland'', the group's first recording to be widely distributed outside the United Kingdom. Alongside being performers, The Singing Kettle sang the theme song to a Scottish TV series for children, cartoon programme ''Meeow!'', which ran from 2000–2002. ''Meeow!'' was latterly shown on wknd@stv in 2009. Aside from their several albums of traditional children's music, The Singing Kettle has also released several DVDs and made five television series with BBC Scotland and two television series with Scottish Television. They also tour regularly throughout the United Kingdom, performing their highly successful stage show. They have performed command performances before both Prince Charles and Jordan's royal family. The three founding members of The Singing Kettle (Cilla, Artie, and Gary) have each been honored with the MBE. There is a Singing Kettle Shop in Kingskettle. The group announced in October 2012 that they are auditioning for a new permanent member. Later that month they announced that Cilla and Artie were retiring from performing and will continue to work on writing and behind the scenes. Gary and Kevin will be joined by Anya Scott-Rodgers. In September 2014, the group announced that they will be calling it a day in February 2015 after 32 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Singing Kettle music group announces farewell tour )〕 Kevin, Gary and Anya will continue to work together in a group called 'Funbox'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Singing Kettle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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