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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
fromthewhitehouse Artists Shortlisted for Fatea Magazine Music Awards 2020
As we all know 2020 was a tough year for musicians, and the great artists that we work with here at fromthewhitehouse were not exempt from those difficulties.
But everyone managed to pull together and somehow we negotiated album and single releases, streamed gigs, some ‘real-life’ gigs, and getting used to the ‘new-normal’ and we’re happy to say that four of our artists ended 2020 with nominations in the well-respected FATEA Magazine Awards.
Reg Meuross – six retrospective re-issues
Six titles from Reg Meuross’s back catalogue of albums which had been out of print for a while are being officially re released via Proper Records on Friday December 4th 2020. The re-issued titles are The Goodbye Hat (1996), Short...
Harbottle & Jonas bring hope with new single The Beacon
Dynamic Devon-based contemporary folk duo Harbottle & Jonas, have released a new single The Beacon, available HERE. Written and recorded at home, and featuring collaborator Annie Baylis on violin and backing vocals, The Beacon is the title track from Harbottle...
Ben Morgan-Brown and Anna Ling kick off a beautiful December run of live music – Great Hall Sessions Supper Club
Ben Morgan-Brown and Anna Ling & friends kick of a great December run of live music at Dartington – The Great Hall Sessions – supper club
Great Lawn Sessions #4 – Skeddaddle
The Great Hall Sessions #4 presents SKEDADDLE (Trio) on Saturday 31st October. Book your table / seats asap! BOOKINGS HERE. Skedaddle take their inspiration from New Orleans jazz bands of old, as well as gypsy jazz legends and some klezmer and eastern european...
Women in the workplace – Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall talk with Women’s Mass Debate
Women's Mass Debate podcast asks Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall 'What's it like being female in the music workplace these days?' Listen HERE and find out.
Singer, songwriter, storyteller Reg Meuross returns to Dartington for The Great Hall Sessions #2
The breadth and depth of Reg Meuross's material is unparalleled in contemporary folk: songs about forgotten heroes, famous names, folk legends, the climate emergency, tales from the kitchen sink and news from the world stage; if something needs to be sung about then...
The Ciderhouse Rebellion come to The Great Hall Dartington
Come and enjoy a drink, delicious fresh cooked food and listen to improv folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion live inside Dartington Hall on Thursday 8th October. The Great Lawn Sessions have been moved indoors to the Great Hall, to protect the Great Lawn during the...
Charlie Dore & Julian Littman *Online* at The Gather Ennerdale tonight
Subscribe to The Gather at Ennerdale's YouTube HERE and tune in at 7pm tonight (Tuesday 6th October) to see Charlie Dore and Julian Littman in concert online - The Gather Cafe & Shop . Presenting songs from new album Like Animals (as well as some old favourites)...
The Power Of Three – blog – GETTING GIGS
The Power of Three is a series of blogs sharing advice, tips, stories and things we’ve learnt from three different aspects of the music industry - as an Artist, a Venue Programmer, and a Music Agent/Manager. It just so happens that the three of us who make up the team...
Fromthewhitehouse Artists Performing at Beardy Folk Festival 2020.
https://www.harbottleandjonas.com Bucking the trend of cancelled events, boutique Shopshire folk festival Beardy Folk Festival is going ahead with a Covid-safe policy in place, and Fromthewhitehouse artists are prominent in the billing. Friday...
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter – rúnian
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter - rúnian An immersive and cinematic collection of folk-tone-poems woven between and around spontaneously created music. The improv folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion - master accordionist Murray Grainger and ‘Paganini of the folk...
Reg Meuross – RAW vinyl release completes the RAW Trilogy
Announcing the release of Reg Meuross’s album RAW in vinyl on 11th September 2020. To celebrate the launch Reg is performing two distanced, indoor, live gigs in front of an actual audience, his first shows since before lockdown. These gigs take place on the 11th...
fromthewhitehouse – in the house w/c 7 September 2020
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Great Lawn Sessions
"It's almost as if everyone has been missing live music..." The Great Lawn Sessions have been a wonderful success. Every Thursday - delicious Green Table Cafe food served outside the White Hart - from 5pm and live music from 7pm to 9pm. It's been wonderful sight to...
Harbottle & Jonas – join the Global Music Match
Devon folk legends Harbottle & Jonas are hand picked to take part in Global Music Match
Black Is The Colour – a Harbottle & Jonas / The Ciderhouse Rebellion collaboration
Music collaboration in lockdown… yes yes, I know everyone's been doing it… but check out Harbottle & Jonas' heartbreaking version of the classic Black Is The Colour with improv folk duo (I DID say improv) The Ciderhouse Rebellion weaving their spontaneous magic in...