Tom has been involved in traditional music and dance since the age of ten, when his primary school performed at the Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival. He took up the melodeon aged 12 and has played for several Morris sides – currently he is the lead musician for Chiltern Hundreds North West Clog Morris and is a founder member of Rockingham Rapper.

He was a New Roots finalist in 2005 and has driven the Whittlesea Straw Bear several times.

A founding member of Frog on a Bike, Tom composes many original tunes, most of which we play on a regular basis. One of Tom's tunes, "The Well-Hung Turkey", has been in the repertoire of celebrated ceilidh band Random for many years.

Sarah has been writing tunes and songs ever since she learned to talk. She sung in four different continents with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain in the 1990s, and also played in the now-defunct folk duo Full Tilt before joining Frog on a Bike.

She is also the lead musician for Rockingham Rapper, and can play Speed the Plough in 17.5 seconds – with an award from Whitby Folk Week to prove it!

One of Sarah's more recent compositions "Three Miles to Gamlingay" is in our current live repertoire and features on our newest studio album "Tankards & Lanterns".

Our multi string player and band boss, Tim, has been an integral part of Frog on a Bike since joining us in 2014, fresh from several years with the Cambridge University Ceilidh Band.

With an initial background in classical training, Tim soon developed a passion for folk music and has exclusively performed in this genre for many years. His focus specifically lies in the English tradition, and he is not only a skilled fiddle player but also a violin repairer.  

When he's not performing with Frog on a Bike or his other musical projects (such as Fluidic Folk and Passerida), Tim is an active Morris musician & occasional dancer with Cambridge based Granta Blue Morris, having also performed in the past with Cambridge Morris Men, Old Speckled Hen Morris and Ely & Littleport Riot Border Morris respectively. 

Paul played his first gig aged just 13, with a band who rehearsed at the appropriately named Rock House Hotel, Bolton. In 1970, he co-founded Iron Maiden, who supported many top bands (including a fledgling Supertramp and Judas Priest) and recorded two albums. However, the band played it's last gig in 1975 and officially disbanded in 1976 with the death of guitarist Ian Boulton-Smith.

In late 1975, permission to the use the name "Iron Maiden" was given to a new band in London run by Steve Harris and Rod Smallwood. This band went on to be quite successful, you may just have heard of them!

Since then, Paul has played with many bands and as a solo artist. The original recordings from Paul's Iron Maiden have been re-released under the name The Bolton Iron Maiden, which, along with Paul’s solo recordings, raise money for Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Care. Paul’s latest album, Puppet Master: The Rise and Rise of Slick Dandy, was released in 2021.

After being Frog on a Bike's go to dep drummer for many years, Paul became our incumbent drummer after the retirement of band founder, Den Smith, in 2021.

Paul really is the fire in our engine room, we love just how rock & roll we get with him!

Frog on a Bike has been Garry’s first foray into Ceilidh, and “what a baptism!”

Garry has worked with Paul over the years, so when asked if he was interested in taking over from previous bassist Phil, he thought "why not"?

After auditioning at a couple of live show, with no prior rehearsals we might add, the band was glad to welcome Garry on board. Garry is looking forward to some musical mayhem – or, as both NASA and Buzz Lightyear put it, ‘To the Stars, and Beyond!‘ (well, maybe…)

Garry has been playing both bass and guitar for many years ‘around’ the Cambridge/ Bedford/Peterborough clubs and pubs, working with various pop and rock bands, and also has a small recording facility where he has recorded, mixed and mastered a number of different projects over the years.

As well as now working with Frog, he currently plays guitar with Covers Band ‘Vertigo Band Cambridge’  and runs his own ongoing music project, ‘Ghost Repeaters’, working with various musicians as and when requested, or solo, where, for example, he performed at Cambridge’s Mill Road Fair in 2023.

Garry also has his own Youtube and SoundCloud  channels, where all sorts of tunes and songs can be found!

P.T. Frog – after whom the band takes it's name – is a well traveled elderly amphibian from West Yorkshire.

He is the last of seven 'frogs' from a 1927 Leeds theatre production of Toad of Toad Hall. Made of rag and wood, each frog originally held a flame on a stick which ‘lime lit' the stage.

He was rescued from the abandoned theatre in Leeds and lovingly renovated many years later by band founder Den Smith.

At 97 years old he still refuses to retire from the stage and traveling the country. He is as much a member of the band as the rest of us.

As for the bike part of the band's name? Well, apart from a name you’re not likely to forget, it’s a subtle nod to the pioneering Edwardian folk song and tune collector Cecil Sharp, who travelled the country on his bicycle, recording the English tradition from which the band draws so much of it's repotior.

Edwin is a musician with a varied and possibly dubious background, having been brought up in a Morris Dancing family. Steeped in the traditions of England, he sought further influences, finding inspiration in the continental and trans-Atlantic traditions, as well as through Motown and soul.

A compulsive multi-instrumentalist, Edwin plays many, indeed most things, including some that haven't been invented yet, but is best known as a talented and inventive melodeon player with The Ironmasters, for his stint as the drummer with Jabadaw and as a founder member of Pilgrim’s Way.

A hugely empathetic accompanist, his greatest strength is in instinctively bringing out the best in other people's music with exactly the right textures and rhythms.

Edwin is currently the melodeon player for Trentside Holmes Morris in Newark, Nottinghamshire and has also been known to play contrabass bugle for Chiltern Hundreds Morris and Earlsdon Morris respectively .

Bryan cut his bass playing teeth on the Suffolk pub live music scene, with years of weekly gigs of driving rock and crowd pleasers.

He has more recently turned his hand to ceilidh bass playing and just loves to reinforce the rhythm of the tunes.

Bryan entered the traditional folk world over a decade ago, and nowadays dances and plays melodeon for two Cotswold Morris sides, Cambridgeshire's Coton Morris and further afield for Harlequin Morris.