“Pearl” and “Piano” have been playing, writing and recording music together for more than 20 years, brought together by a mutual love of country and folk music and winding a way between these two great influences.
Pearl and the Piano write and record from their base on the edge of the English Lake District.
“Pearl” – Carly Dacre
“Piano” – Graeme Park
Carly and Graeme both grew up on the English Northwest coast in Cumbria and both with musical lineage. Carly is from a family of Northern Irish musicians, little surprise then that Carly’s exposure to folk and country music started early. Family gatherings as a child meant everyone either played an instrument or provided a harmony. Carly regularly contributed harmonies on James Taylor classics, performed with her younger brother and cousins. Carly ’s love for country and Americana music developed rapidly in her early teens when her father brought back a wealth of 90’s female country from a visit to Nashville , inspiring her vocals and establishing her songwriting roots .
Graeme’s maternal Grandpa was a much-respected organ and piano accompanist to many vocalists visiting the local churches. Willing and able to turn his hand to any style, he joined his drummer son, Graeme’s uncle, in the latter’s competition winning jazz and swing dance band in the 1950’s. Graeme’s mother and father both visited the piano in their lives, his father earning his beer in the local village pub, providing piano backing as the regulars sang along to hits of the day.
Graeme has brought together several bands to perform his original music, inviting Carly to join his country band Sugarfoot in the early 2000s.
Further collaborations together saw the birth of Pearl and the Piano, founded upon their mutual love of folk and country music. “Pearl” and “Piano” wind their way between these two great influences – writing, recording and performing from their base on the edge of the English Lake District.
Pearl and the Piano joined Seahouse Records in 2022 – a not-for-profit label, established to grow and support its artists community.
Pearl and the Piano are currently writing and recording their album Tall Tales and Short Stories and are promoting their singles Cannonball, Mrs Jones and Standing on the Edge of the World.
Standing on the Edge of the World, released in December 2025, is a haunting anthem of sisterhood torn apart. The song paints Juliette and Emily as mirrors of a divided population. Their fractured relationship becomes a metaphor for a society at war with itself, through ideology and fear.
At its heart, the song is Juliette’s plea for reconciliation – urging Emily to see how hostility toward outsiders is tearing apart not only their family but the wider community. With pleading verses and a chorus of urgency, the track asks the piercing question: “In the cold light, what will we hand down?”
The lyric resonate far beyond personal conflict, speaking to generational responsibility and the need to heal divisions
before they become permanent. Standing on the Edge of the World is both a deeply human story and a rallying cry for unity in fragile times.
