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Come and sing! – Sufjan Stevens Xmas 2021 choir
Sufjan Stevens, American songmaker and composer has made 10 albums of Christmas music. He has generously put all of these songs onto creative commons, inviting folks to have a go at making their own versions. For several years now a small team of Sufjan fans have been...
Inaugural Blues Down Festival Brings Live Blues Music to Askerswell 13th August 3pm to midnight.
Fine art and blues music might not seem the most obvious of bedfellows, but Daniel Hunt, who has been running a Chelsea-based gallery for over 25 years, and who also describes John Lee Hooker’s music as something that “really gets my blood pumping” is an aficionado...
Jessie Summerhayes steps out on Radio 4’s Power Lines
Poet Jessie Summerhayes will be performing a new poem on the next BBC Radio 4 Power Lines series. Yomi Ṣode brings together 21st century poets whose work is underpinned by a love of music to talk about that influence and to perform poems reflecting that passion....
The Angel Totnes hosts Dan Whitehouse & Chris Cleverley – SAT 31 AUG
SATURDAY 31st JULY Doors 7pm Music 7.30pm BYO (tea and cake in the interval)TICKETS ARE LIMITED PLEASE BOOK HEREJoin songwriters Chris Cleverley and Dan Whitehouse at The Angel Totnes for a rare co-headline appearance. Each artist will perform a solo set, followed by...
A new Devon Festival – ANRÀN FEST 29/30 AUGUST
FESTIVAL TICKETS HERE Anran Fest - The first Asian Street Food and Music Festival in support of Cancer Research and Children's Hospice Southwest."Last summer we were obviously as affected by the pandemic as everyone was, but we were undeterred and really wanted to...
JULY Devon gigs & news fromthewhitehouse
FULL NEWS HERE Dear Devon music lovers Thanks to the wonderful musicians who performed at, and to the glorious audiences who attended, all those beautiful Great Lawn Sessions at Dartington over Spring and early Summer. That's all for a while, as Dartington will be...
Reg Meuross is awarded a bursary from Halsway Manor
(photos: Rachel Snowdon) STOLEN FROM GOD - Reg Meuross Somerset-based singer/songwriter Reg Meuross has been awarded an Incubator Bursary from Halsway Manor to support the development of a new project telling the story of the South West’s shameful links to the slave...
Ben Morgan-Brown’s instrumental album Moment hits streaming milestone
Ben Morgan-Brown’s album of solo guitar instrumentals, Moment, has just hit the milestone of 45,000 streams on Spotify! Described as containing “extraordinary guitar virtuosity” by BBC Music Introducing, “seriously confident playing chops” by Fresh On The Net, and...
The Ciderhouse Rebellion win Arts Council Funding
Big celebrations for improv folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion who have (very deservedly) been awarded an Arts Council England & National Lottery grant for their Ironstone Tales project, drawing inspiration for new music, poetry, storytelling and stunning footage...
Genius Loci – The Ciderhouse Rebellion search for the Spirit of Place
There was an idea, long ago, in classical Roman religion, that every part of the world had its own little god, its own spirit. It was the ‘spirit of place’ the Genius Loci, and folk-improv duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion, featuring Adam Summerhayes on fiddle and Murray...
Review – The Bevin Boys (Bill Pettinger’s Lament) by Reg Meuross
PRSD review Reg Meuross's latest single: A song about unsung heroes is just one way of addressing a wonky world and putting a bit of history to rights. No doubt that reassessment will prick the ire of some culture warriors. But an honest heralding of the underdog in a...
Epic version of Black Is The Colour from The Haar
Since releasing their debut album 'The Haar' in 2020, a record that caused Folk Radio UK to proclaim "we need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting”, Anglo-Irish folk group The Haar have found themselves, like many of us, separated by land and by sea....
“You don’t get medals down the mine” – The Bevin Boys (Bill Pettinger’s Lament)
Reg Meuross is widely acknowledged as “one of the finest singer-songwriters this country has produced” (Mike Harding) and has been called “a mighty songwriter and an equally fine singer” by no less than folk legend Martin Carthy. That he should choose to mark the...
Reborn folk duo Suthering – release new single Gather
Folk duo Suthering have announced their arrival with a new single. PURCHASE GATHER HERE. If the interweaved vocals, pure harmonies, and plaintive piano of new single ‘Gather' from Devon-based folk-duo Suthering ring some familiar bells, it is because those...
The Beacon is lit, this Friday!
A year after they were forced to return from a hastily-cancelled European tour in order to enter lockdown, Harbottle & Jonas are releasing their brand new album The Beacon this Friday 26th of March. "a magnificent sound…the music captures to perfection the...
Suthering – the artists formerly known as Julu & Heg
A new name, a new single, a new project. After three years of writing, arranging and performing together, folk duo Julu & Heg are stepping away from using their own names as their musical title. From Friday 19th March they will be known as Suthering. Julu Irvine...
Harbottle & Jonas – The Beacon – live stream album launch at The Barrel House 26 March 7.30pm
To celebrate the release of new album The Beacon, Harbottle & Jonas invite all to raise a glass and join them for a live stream from one of their favourite venues - The Barrel House in Totnes - starting at 7.30pm (GMT) on the 26th of March via their YouTube...
Grammy Award winning Julie Gold joins online songwriting retreat ‘From a Distance’
Grammy Award winning Julie Gold joins Reg Meuross & Findlay Napier on online songwriting retreat ‘From a Distance’ 2-4 February
Remembering Sophie Sholl – For Sophie (This Beautiful Day)
Remembering brave Sophie Sholl today on the anniversary of her death in 1943. For Sophie (This Beautiful Day) by Reg Meuross. In 18th February 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Christoph were arrested having been found distributing anti-war...
That Friday Feeling 22 Jan 2021
That Friday Feeling brings new releases from Tender Central, Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade and Steve Tilston alongside a bit of personal nostalgia for me from Marika Hackman. We also stretch out into '100 Miles of Nothing' with Charlie Dore & Michele Stodart...
12 Silk Handkerchiefs – remembering The Dark Winter
The winter of 1968 will always be known as the Dark Winter in the fishing community of Hessle Road and the wider maritime community in Hull and beyond. Three trawlers, the St Romanus, the Kingston Peridot, and the Ross Cleveland, were all lost at sea in the space of...
From A Distance – an online retreat with Reg Meuross & Findlay Napier
New restrictions in place in the UK have meant that the Company of Song residential songwriting retreat at Halsway Manor with Reg Meuross and Findlay Napier has moved online. From a Distance is a three-day songwriting ‘retreat’ that you can attend from the comfort of...
An Audience with Louise Goffin
Company of Song: An Audience With Louise Goffin - online - Thursday 14th January 6-7.30pm GMT Music and the joy of sharing creativity with others are the foundations upon which Company of Song was founded. Their team of songwriter facilitators includes the likes of...
Black is the Colour – new single from Harbottle & Jonas – out 15th January
Harbottle & Jonas release second single from their album The Beacon out March 26th – Black Is The Colour