Leith Davis and husband Rob McGregor are one half of The Sybaritic String Band, a Vancouver-based quartet that hosts monthly contradances at St James Community Square, corner of 10th and Trutch in Vancouver, BC. https://thesybariticstringband.com (all are welcome and no experience necessary, although there are no dances right now during the current crisis).

Leith is also a professor in the English Department and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at SFU. Leith also researches traditional music and is the author of Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: Irish National Identity, 1724–1874.

Rob McGregor has been playing the mandolin for over 40 years. He was a founding member of the Pacific Bluegrass and Heritage Society, the heart of bluegrass music in Vancouver in the 1980’s, and performed with several bluegrass bands including the Little Mountain Band. Rob also plays music for contradancing and previously performed in Tempus Fugit while, today, he is a member of the Sybaritic Stringband. Rob has broad interests in folk and fiddle music styles including oldtime, Irish, Scottish and Quebecois. These days, he also performs with the Little Mountain Trio and hosts a bluegrass and oldtime radio show “In the Pines” on Vancouver Cooperative Radio. Rob also plays octave mandolin and loves to accompany the fiddle playing of his wife, Leith Davis.