by Katie Whitehouse | Mar 27, 2023 | Latest News, Uncategorised
Listen HERE “The Wild Rover is a sailors’ song, known in most of the places where seafarers from these isles gathered. But I can guarantee you’ve never heard it done like this before! In today’s episode I’m with The Haar, shortly before...
by Katie Whitehouse | Mar 8, 2023 | Latest News, Uncategorised
Stolen From God will be released on 7 April ORDER HERESleeve Note’ by Mike Davies “In his 27 years as a solo artist, Somerset-based singer-songwriter Reg Meuross has tackled a wide array of historical based subjects in songs exposing injustice and...
by Katie Whitehouse | Jan 9, 2023 | Latest News
by Katie Whitehouse | Dec 28, 2022 | Latest News
“Listening to The Haar do “Wild Rover” for the first time, well, it gave me the chills. Chills. The careful whisper of singer Molly Donnery’s voice paired with a simple instrumentation as the song progresses…well…you have to hear it to experience the magic. The...
by Katie Whitehouse | Nov 26, 2022 | Latest News
In the first of a new series of “Cider with…” collaborations, masters of improvisation The Ciderhouse Rebellion (accordionist Murray Grainger and fiddle player Adam Summerhayes) are joined by stellar Irish singer Molly Donnery (from The Haar) as they cast their...
by Katie Whitehouse | Nov 26, 2022 | Latest News
Award-winning singer Reg Meuross releases the first single from his groundbreaking project focussed on the transatlantic slave trade – Good Morning Mr Colston on Friday 2nd December. For the last four years, uncovering the stories behind the transatlantic...
by Katie Whitehouse | Nov 17, 2022 | Latest News
Rachael Dadd + friends at St Mary’s Church, Totnes Andy Hill took to church for a concert presented by From The Whitehouse and The Blackbird Collective, with Rachael Dadd, Long For The Coast and Maja Lena and found voices united in togetherness.. Churches are great,...
by ftwadmin | Oct 26, 2022 | Latest News
On the 8th of November, Chris Cleverley starts his UK tour supporting the release of his fourth album ‘Broadcast The Secret Verse’ taking to the stage in venues across England and Scotland. And although he’ll be traveling as far as Glasgow, Hull,...
by Katie Whitehouse | Oct 6, 2022 | Latest News
Legendary troubadour Reg Meuross has announced three live shows as a duo with rising star of the folk world, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne. The duo will play songs from the Stolen From God album, which uncovers stories from the slave trade. The live dates are: 9th...
by Katie Whitehouse | Sep 12, 2022 | Latest News
From the huge Glassworks production line and cone-shaped furnaces of the past to the reflections on bespoke pieces created in more recent times, Dan Whitehouse’s work celebrates the largely untold stories of Stourbridge’s master craftsmen/craftswomen...
by Katie Whitehouse | Aug 25, 2022 | Latest News, Uncategorised
SUPPORT THE PROJECT HERE Reg Meuross, Jali Fily Cissokho, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and Jaz Gayle For the last four years, uncovering the stories of the Atlantic slave trade across the South West of England has been the mission of Somerset-based songwriter, Reg...
by Katie Whitehouse | Jul 19, 2022 | Latest News, Uncategorised
“Communication via glass (screens) allows creative connections to fuse and barriers to drop. You can connect with people from any discipline, any area of life, all across the globe. But there are days when it just doesn’t feel ‘enough’. “We are but...
by Katie Whitehouse | Jul 17, 2022 | Latest News
The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth A New folk ballet presented by Deborah Norris’s Ballet Folk and the music/spoken word trio Words of a Fiddlers Daughter will premiere this Summer. JULY 29 CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL INFO AND TICKETS AUGUST 10 SUMMER BY THE RIVER INFO AND...
by Katie Whitehouse | May 22, 2022 | Latest News
Award-winning singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse continues to renew, reinvent and reimagine – touching listeners with his observations and moving them with his sensitivity and impeccable songwriting. Dan is taking new release The Glass Age (out July 8th) on tour...
by Katie Whitehouse | Apr 27, 2022 | Latest News
Matching the fresh talent of traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music circuit: Cormac Byrne (Uiscedwr, Seth Lakeman), Adam Summerhayes and Murray Grainger (The Ciderhouse Rebellion,...
by Katie Whitehouse | Apr 27, 2022 | Latest News, Uncategorised
‘A Hundred Miles of Nothing’ is a small hymn to silence, space and slowing down, written by legendary singer songwriter Charlie Dore with Michele Stodart of The Magic Numbers. The song was hailed as being “celestial in its elegance” by the Independent, and as...
by Katie Whitehouse | Apr 27, 2022 | Latest News
THIS WEEK in the House (w/c 25.04.22) Firstly a big Happy Birthday to our wonderful Freya of Harbottle & Jonas today! Hopefully Dave and Freya have managed to celebrate after a busy run on the road with Reg Meuross (Songs of Love & Death) and then a packed...
by Katie Whitehouse | Apr 19, 2022 | Latest News, Uncategorised
A Fatea Magazine review of last week’s Songs of Love & Death at Green Note – their finale of April’s live tour of the album with Reg Meuross Music and Harbottle & Jonas. The next chance to see this trio perform together is at Beardy Folk...
by Katie Whitehouse | Apr 18, 2022 | Latest News
FULL REVIEW HERE ***** FIVE STAR CHOICE! ***** Of all the surfeit of amazing albums that folk innovators Adam Summerhayes and Murray Grainger have recorded, this incredible little gem just about tops the lot. Award-winning fiddler Adam and inspirational accordionist...
by Katie Whitehouse | Apr 11, 2022 | Latest News
The Haar, Where Old Ghosts Meet (Under The Eaves) OUT APRIL 29 2022 BUY HERE The second exquisitely crafted offering from innovative Anglo-Irish quartet – The Haar serves up their admirably spontaneous renditions of eight of the most memorable songs in the...
by ftwadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | In The Whitehouse, Latest News, videos
Lucky enough to have been working with flautist Eliza Marshall for over seven months now, From The Whitehouse sent Matt Rochford to manage the Freedom To Roam Spring Tour as it wound its way through England and Wales. These are some of his reflections after landing...
by Katie Whitehouse | Mar 16, 2022 | Latest News, Uncategorised
Innovative Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar release their second album. Their debut, eponymous, album was described as “a splendid balance of swirling instrumental magic and beautifully sung narratives” by Folk Radio UK, and Where Old Ghosts Meet promises more magic...
by Katie Whitehouse | Mar 8, 2022 | Latest News
BEN & DOM “Our mentoring sessions with Katie Whitehouse in the run up to our EP release (Shoulder) on April 1st 2022 have been really useful for thinking about how we take our project out into the world and introduce people to our work. Katie has helped us...
by ftwadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Latest News
Devon based Folk duo, Suthering (previously known as Julu and Heg), released their debut album ‘If We Turn Away’ today! The album features an array of songs with two carefully selected traditional songs dotted amongst beautifully crafted self penned...