Gibbon & Goldfinch – aka performing duo Marcus Decker and Holly Cullen-Davies, who met running protest song workshops – are singers, multi-instrumentalists, activists, curators and entertainers. They started the concert series Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth together in 2021 and have performed all over the UK and also in Germany and France raising Climate Awareness through the power of music. Their repertoire ranges from traditional folk through to Cole Porter, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and original songs they have composed themselves. Their most recent performance was a show at The Cockpit Theatre, London with actor Juliet Stevenson called Facing The Music.

Marcus Decker studied at Leipzig University and then trained as a jazz singer at a conservatory in Budapest in Hungary. He has busked and hitchhiked through over 40 different countries and sailed across the Atlantic to Dominica in 2017. As an activist in climate emergency mode he hung a banner over the QE2 bridge in 2022 and spent the following 16 months in prison for it, where he also set up and ran a choir for other prisoners called Singing Makes It Better. He is fighting deportation by the Home Office.

Holly Cullen-Davies was awarded a choral scholarship to Cambridge but trained on the joint course between The Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University as a pianist finishing with a Masters at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama winning the Bach Prize and an Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2013. She is also a qualified Suzuki piano teacher, runs Thula Mama choirs for parents with babies and sings in her family vocal trio Davies & Daughters whose debut album you can listen to here. Over the last few years she has been active in the climate movement and working against Marcus’s deportation order by giving interviews for newspapers, radio and television. She has two children Laurie 12 and Rosa 10.
Born at 350ppm. Still at risk of being deported.
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