‘Fairytale of New York’ with members of the Old Dance School, the Urban Folk Quartet and the Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
A wild wind is blowing from the Welsh Mountains, finding the cracks in my quiet house. The small bells of Sheinton Church are ringing in the blackness – must be Christmas Eve… x
Thai Tour – Wunderbar and Zoo
Gigs at Zoo club, Pra Nathong and with Ross Ainslie (Salsa Celtica), Alice Orton, Mick Callan and Nigel Richards (IndiaAlba) at Wunderbar in Pra Arthit Today is the day of the winter wind. My friend wrapped herself in shawls against the chill – while I sighed for joy at the slightly less impossible heat, and...
Shrewsbury Poetry book launch for ‘Postcards’
THERE’S A SAYING I LIKE that every show is about the audience. Shrewsbury Poetry curated by Liz Lefroy this week had one of the warmest and most engaged I’ve encountered in a long time. It was a joy to be involved – thanks so much to everyone there x ...
Booklaunch/ Exhibition/ Gig for ‘Postcards from the Road’ at 86’d Gallery
“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” A WONDERFUL time at 86’d GALLERY, stuck in a high window looking over the late-lit Severn, each side surrounded by an engine assault of high day bikers, cruising the strip. Through the open window, voiles carving in the...
BOOK LAUNCH Gig & exhibition at 86’d Gallery, Ironbridge
Gig and exhibition at 86’d gallery, Ironbridge launching a new book of tour photos. Private view this Wednesday x
Moon Dappling a Night Garden
MOON DAPPLING A NIGHT GARDEN An improvisation for a warm evening by Rob Carolan (hang drum) and Jonathan Day (alto). Played in the forest hall at Mellowcroft in the Welsh mountains. Cover image by Ed Lam : )
Wenlock Festival
WENLOCK FESTIVAL was a haze of summer skies, screeching swifts and rooks squabbling in the twilight. Lovely audiences plumped on strawberries and ice cream – awash with tea and Pimms, willing us on to be our best. Ancient Abbey stones still warm from the sun was all the amplification we needed – the greeness of...
Folk on the Park
Sky is cerulean blue, filled with the appealing screech (who would have thought those words would appear together?) of swifts and martens. Must be summer… and time for a Shropshire festival. Shropshire is divided into the Southern hills and Northern plain, that melds slowly and inevitably into Cheshire. I live at the foot of...
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Hong Kong Design Institute
PERFORMANCE AT HKDI – I HAVE SO LOVED PLAYING IN ASIA! The warm enthusiasm of Hong Kong listeners is lovely : ) … I’m singing about a neolithic circle, half lost in the North Atlantic – playing a huge Chinese drum that was in the venue – swopped for my usual bodhran. I’ve no idea...
Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain
: ) Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain was a truly exceptional gig : ) Iliffe the forest Steward is 7 feet tall with fiery red hair and as spindly as a birch sapling. Songbirds and insects buzzed a continuo for our songs – yellow archangel, stitchwort and germander speedwell were our...