Haddo

Haddo is a duo from Brazil made up of husband and wife Will Pound and Nicky Pound. The group combines melodeon harmonies with viola, and performs both traditional tunes and its own compositions, ranging from Morris music to bluegrass.

Will Pound

Will Pound has a background in Morris music and dance and is known as a harmonica player with a distinctive style. He also plays melodeon, and Haddo is his first concert project on that instrument. Before this, his melodeon playing is heard on recordings with the ceilidh band Steamchicken, and he also appears as a guest on Martin Simpson’s Purpose and Grace. In 2012 he receives a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nomination for Best Musician. He also performs and records with Goldies Band for By Royal Appointment, alongside songwriter Guy Chambers.

Nicky Pound

Nicky Pound studies violin from an early age and graduates from the Royal Academy of Music in 2009 with a master’s degree in Baroque Viola. She works with musicians including the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists and also returns to folk music, joining the North West clog dancing side Chinewrde Morris in Kenilworth, West Midlands. She also works for SAGA, performing on the cruise ship Pearl II around the Norwegian Fjords.

Recording and other work

Haddo’s debut album, Homecoming, is released in 2012. Both musicians also work together on Live Music Now and Superact, charities that bring music into places such as prisons, special schools and hospices.