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Emma Ashcroft joined mother Sharron Ashcroft as her assistant in 1997. She is also Ken Ashcroft’s daughter.


Ken Ashcroft [right], early 1960s


Ken worked with Brian Epstein during the early 60s, tour managing The Beatles, as well as managing Billy J Kramer and disc-jockeying at “the most famous club in the world”, Liverpool’s 'The Cavern Club'. “He was part of that significant time; flat-sharing with Priscilla White, touring with The Beatles in the very early days.” He then went on to work at Granada Television as a researcher before ultimately becoming a transmission controller. Emma's brother Simon Ashcroft worked briefly in television before a move into the music industry.


Simon Ashcroft, 2007


Currently based in Berlin, Simon runs Satellite of Love Records, and is Label Operations Manager for Gigolo Records and European Label Manager for Delicious Vinyl. Previous creative associations have included Tony Wilson (Factory Records), Trevor Jackson (Output Recordings) and Robert Miles (S:alt). Emma also has an extensive background in music, having played the piano from the age of 3. Competent in a good number of instruments (including violin, oboe and voice), but studying only several to a very high level (including piano, 'cello and percussion), she gained a degree in Contemporary Music from Leeds University (Bretton Hall) in 1997. Sharron's father, Stanley Hibbert, was a professional musician (a trumpeter - Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Tommy Sampson Band, Northern Dance Orchestra etc.), teaching Roy Castle along the way.
Stanley Hibbert, 1940s


He retired from touring to become Assistant General Secretary of the Musician’s Union for over a decade. A fascinating character, his career included polarities such as judging a beauty contest in Hawaii alongside Liberace and Cleo Lane, to being interviewed on The South Bank Show (as well as many other television/radio/press contributions throughout his union career). Following 'retirement', he worked very closely with Sir Malcolm Arnold, coming close to being honoured following a nomination campaign during those latter years.


Stanley Hibbert in the Tommy Sampson Band [pictured seated at right of second row from front], Hamburg 1948


Stanley's father, George Hibbert, was a fervent socialist who campaigned for manual workers’ rights in the workplace. And Sharron's brother, Andrew Hibbert, is a DOP, Lighting & Camera Operator with over twenty years television experience. “Artist management, the arts and media is obviously a family thing and it’s impossible not to be inspired by my mother and father. I had a great teacher in my mother who was a Granada-trained Casting Director with twenty years experience before becoming an Agent. And my brother continues to impress upon me that anything is possible.” Emma has worked in the industry for over thirteen years. She became a mother in 2006 and Company Director of Sharron Ashcroft Management in 2007. Sharron now lives in France, running a separate business in South Brittany.