In 2007 Frances Taylor celebrates 25 years of promoting the mandolin.
Here are a selection of photos from that time, and an early surprise.
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1990
The Daily Telegraph Saturday 21 April, 1990. The caption reads: Frances Taylor, from
Woodford, Essex, one of the countrys few professional mandolin-players, who will be giving the
first mandolin recital for 20 years at Londons South Bank Centre in the Purcell Room next Friday.
1983
An early press photo
1986
Three photos from a performance of the
Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto, Joensuu, Finland
And from early childhood, Frances one Christmas morning, having just been given her first plucked instrument...