After graduation she[2] joined the City Waites, a four-piece group specialising in the broadside ballads and popular songs and dance music of 17th-century England.

As a member of the Michael Nyman Band, she appeared in Peter Greenaway's 1980 mock documentary The Falls, as subject #74, Pollie Fallory, and in Gavin Bryars' Irma.

After several years performing with the proto-feminist band the Sadista Sisters, she returned to early music working with the City Waites, the Consort of Musicke, the Martin Best Ensemble and the English Consort of Viols before forming her own band the Burning Bush in order to explore her own Jewish roots.

Skeaping is a specialist exponent of the English broadside ballad repertoire and the popular dance tunes to which they were sung, also playing baroque violin, fiddle and rebec.

[3] As a solo artist and with her groups she has toured extensively and made recordings for Saydisc, Hyperion, ARC Music International, Regis, EMI and Decca (details at www.lucieskeaping.co.uk/cds.htm).