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Mentoring at From The Whitehouse
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 focus...
Suthering release debut album ‘If We Turn Away’ today!
“acoustic folk music that, like some sublime Greek chorus, sings with hopeful promise of ancient melodic truth and beauty in our very modern world.” – Bill Golembeski, Folking.com
Eliza Marshall’s Freedom To Roam: The Rhythms of Migration
Eliza Marshall's Freedom To Roam: The Rhythms of Migration was launched at Cecil Sharp House London last December. The live music and film show is on tour now and there are still two chances to see this extraordinary project of hope and optimism around themes of the...
Songs of Love & Death – 10 Folk Songs live dates
Songs of Love & Death is the new collaborative album from two of this country's finest and most engaging folk/acoustic acts: Reg Meuross and Harbottle & Jonas. The album is available HERE and the first live tour begins in March. See below for dates. Born from...
Suthering: Crowdfunder, new song and a double headline concert
There are very exciting times ahead for folk duo, Suthering! Find about some of them here, including how to pre-save their new single Kingfisher!
Ordinary Names – Charlie Dore’s brand new video
Charlie says: "From Like Animals - the album. It seems some names are destined to remain unfashionable...Often the names I used to associate with elderly aunts and uncles were restrained, reliable, understated, even. Often people were named after a parent or...
Long For The Coast – “Best band in the South West 2021”
Long For The Coast have “sublime harmonies, moving folk melodies and story telling of the highest order,” says Listen With Monger. No wonder then that the Totnes-based duo picked up the LWM2021 award for Best Band in the South West. The whole combo of musical style...
The Ten Steps Tour – Max ZT and Dan Whitehouse
An evening with one of the world’s most celebrated hammered-dulcimer players and one of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters: beautiful music and songs mixed with spoken word and “lyrics that avert your gaze to the sky” Ten Steps "is both extraordinary and beautiful. I...
Charlie Dore – Blowing Leaves on Radio 2 Folk Show
Perfect for ? @CharlieDore’s Blowing Leaves ? on @BBCRadio2 #folkshow Listen again HERE
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...