New video and press – ‘in a Garden of Stones’
/https://youtu.be/tx50eKLRB5M?si=G6peEo7tP0GTOYjD A lovely consideration of our new video from Alex Gallacher at Folk Radio https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2024/01/jonathan-day-collective-in-a-garden-of-stones/
Festival in the Desert – playing to nomadic tribes-people and travellers, deep in the Sahara
‘Tamarisk and the Raven’ – mainstage at Festival in the Desert – under a full moon and a lunar eclipse She moves through the fair – representing the music of these sea washed islands with fiddle, bagpipes and voice Press piece All photos courtesy of Jonathan Day Interviews & Guest Posts An archaeology of the...
Summer Festival Films ’23
LANDED – lovely award winning festival in the Welsh mountains on the headwaters of the Wye. Trio playing the headline slot Saturday night on the Magus Stage. WORKHOUSE STEAMPUNK WELLNESS FESTIVAL Shrewsbury
‘Sakura’ new album release
Folk Radio review of Sakura by Thomas Blake Sakura is an album recorded in the Welsh hills but rooted in Japanese and East Asian culture. This isn’t as contradictory as it sounds: the Japanese religious experience emphasises the primacy of nature. Shinto beliefs, in particular, are based on a subtle animism. In Shinto, everything is...
Playing Camp Bestival mainstage – 19 August 2022
We’re off to Weston in Shropshire to play at Camp Bestival : ) So happy to be invited by Sarah at Twisted Agency to play at this iconic – but most importantly fun – festival. We’re on Mainstage Friday early afternoon and at the Carvanserai stage on Sunday – at 3 40 in the afternoon....
New Single – out 19th August 2022 to coincide with our Bestival performances. The first release from forthcoming album ‘Sakura’.
Listen here : ) https://jonathanday.bandcamp.com/track/isolde Isolde is a love story – it’s autobiographical (always a treacherous area of inspiration : ) and the story I lived has strong echoes and resonances with the Arthurian story of Isolde, Tristan and King Mark. But that’s enough said – I’ll let the song tell its story : )...
Summer Tour
Delighted to be packing up the instruments loading the van and heading out to a bunch of festivals over the summer. They are all delightfully different: Bellan is a boutique festival in an American War of Independence era naval fort. Strange to think people were this afraid of an American/French invasion in the 1770s… I’m...
Summer tour 2021 – launch concert for Refugee Week
We’re launching our summer festival tour with a special intimate concert at the gorgeous IN GOOD HANDS in Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, supporting REFUGEE WEEK. Would love to see you there x
Orphans of the Storm – four track EP: “I fell in love as soon as I heard it – different, gorgeous – honestly beautiful” BBC Introducing, “a balm for the soul” Angeline Morrison
LISTEN here: https://jonathanday.bandcamp.com/album/orphans-of-the-storm Four songs of love and loss, a distillation of years spent wandering and playing. Presenting stories from a frozen midsummer’s night on a Danish island, the deep countryside of Belarus, streets in Bali and the wide black land of Minnesota, these compositions take their heart from time, silence and the mad, mundane and...