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Freedom To Roam – May dates
Climate change, animal welfare, our rights to access nature, empathising more fully with displaced peoples, mental health, the state of our rivers, rewilding. And what’s this got to do with music? We tend to think in linear, blocky, compartmentalised ways, don’t...
What’s unfurling at From The Whitehouse in May…
MAY From The Whitehouse A round up of what's unfurling this month - all ticket links: fromthewhitehouse.com/events 2 May Reg Meuross at Dolly's Falmouth 4 May Reg Meuross at Temperance, Leamington 4 May Charlie Dore at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts 5 May Charlie...
The Haar talk to Handed Down Pod about Wild Rover
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 the release of their new...
Stolen From God
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 inequality or...
Whiskey In The Jar – as you’ve never heard it before. The Haar at Shrewsbury Folk Festival
The Haar – Where Old Ghosts Meet makes Irish & Celtic Podcast’s TOP 10 of 2022
The Haar make Irish & Celtic podcast’s Top 10 Celtic Bands of 2022
Cider with Molly – masters of folk improv join with stellar Irish trad singer Molly Donnery for five December gigs
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...
Good Morning Mr Colston – Reg Meuross single release
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.
Churches Lend Themselves Exceptionally Well To Live Music
Rachael Dadd + friends at St Mary’s Church, TotnesAndy 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,...
Chris Cleverley – Returning To New Album’s Birthplace In Totnes
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, Colchester, and...
Stolen From God – Reg Meuross song cycle preview gigs for Black History Month 2022
Slave Trade Stolen From God Project Announces Short UK Tour in Bristol, London and Manchester
400 years of Stourbridge glass works: Voices From The Cones
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 and their...
Stolen From God – Legendary Troubadour Launches IndieGoGo For Slave Trade Music Project
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...
The Tide – a new video from The Glass Age – Dan Whitehouse
"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 water" and we need...
The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth – new folk ballet
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...
Dan Whitehouse tours new album – The Glass Age
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 in...
Where Old Ghosts Meet – The Haar release second album
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,...
Charlie Dore and The Magic Numbers’ Michele Stodart Release Surreal Video For Springsteen Inspired Song
‘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...
This Week in the House – w/c 25.04.22
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...
THIS WEEK in the House – w/c 18 April 2022
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 Festival in June....
5 ***** review for The Ciderhouse Rebellion
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...
Morning Star reviews The Haar – Where Old Ghosts Meet
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 entire...
Taking Flight With Freedom To Roam
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...
The Haar release new single Wild Rover – happy St Patrick’s Day!
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...