I’m Catherine on the left, the more assertive and the oldest. And I’m Lizzy on the right, two minutes younger and the more dramatic. We are both open and loud and we are…Ward Thomas.

We were born in 1994 in London after much effort and a long wait on our parent’s part. Together with our elder brother, we grew up on a livestock farm in Hampshire, England. There is a strong seam of creativity on both sides of our family. Our grandmother wrote over forty novels and our great-grandfather was an inventor. Our parents were in a band together and Mum has become a well-recognized painter. Today, our brother is an actor and a playwright. So friends aren’t surprised that singing is what we love to do most in life. The fact that we choose to sing Country music needs a little more explanation.

We were only three when we gave our first public performance – interrupting a wedding to launch into a duet of Happy Birthday – not exactly on the program. We have been singing together ever since, whether it be in our high school choir or at our local pub.

L&C flowergirls copy Our older Canadian close cousin, who lived with us for a bit, first introduced us to Country music (Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash and the Dixie Chicks) when we were sixteen, and right away we fell in love with it. We had always enjoyed music; I (Lizzy) started guitar at 15 and I (Catherine) at 17, but it was the sound of Country and the stories told by Country artists in their songs that completely changed the focus of our lives towards music. In 2010, we gave our first “official” public performance, singing Carrie Underwood’s “We’re Young and Beautiful” at school.

It was during our later years at school that our lives changed forever. Our school singing teacher was always supportive of our love of music and we began songwriting with her and our school’s music teacher. They introduced us to