Becca Roberts is a songwriter, singer and guitarist from Dorset. She studied music in school but has spent the last couple of years teaching Year Five at a primary school. The May Dolls is her first professional musical endeavour, and Just For One Night is her first proper recording (by the way, it will soon be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, et al).

Tyler Massey is an inveterate guitarist, songwriter, teacher and singer from America who now lives and works in Malvern, where he's been since 2005. He studied music at University and has played in dozens of projects over the years (currently with Vo Fletcher and The Pull). Although The May Dolls are just starting out, they have high hopes for the future. Having finished their first recording, they are working hard on writing some more material.

Background on our name: in the past, in some parts of Britain, May 1st was called Garland Day. Greenery was collected by primary school children to make garlands. In many English villages children would parade with garlands of flowers, sometimes fastened to sticks or in the shape of a cross, or fixed to hoops, hoping to collect money. The garland was usually decorated with a small doll, which usually resembled the Virgin Mary, so the tradition was known as "May Dolling". The tradition is very old: in Roman times, the dolls depicted goddess Flora, who was supplanted by Mary when Rome turned to Christianity.

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