Just being silly! I don't really believe that 2012 is going to be the year the earth comes to an end, in fact i think it's barely beginning! I know that a lot of friends and family around me have a lot of exciting new stuff on their horizons and my life is no exception. Music wise i am most excited about my new collaborations; I'm forming a duo with "Cornish Legend" Richard Trethewey which is already proving to be very exciting with our mutual love of Westcountry music and song.
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Happy Final Year on Earth!
07/01/12Voice
28/11/11After recieving my copy of the new Woodbine & Ivy Band cd (which is amazing) it's really interesting to contemplate ones voice in relation to others. It's taken me a long time to get used my voice and also to get to love it. Especially during my teenage years and early 20's i completely hated my voice just as i hated my body and everything else at that time in typical teenage fashion! The hardest point was when i was in my local church choir and my voice began to break.
...a gig with Jackie Oates in the Bedford! Hasn't it come around quickly this year? No it hasn't, that's a stupid phrase and we all know it! It comes around about as quickly as Christmas; ie never soon enough. So what's been happening? Well i took part in a residency earlier this month in Cecil Sharp House with the Askew Sisters and some classical musicians working on and putting together a collection of mediaeval music and song from various parts of Europe which we performed at the end of the week.
April blog!
01/05/11Happy May Day everyone! How did you celebrate? I woke up in a hotel in Bristol after having a rather smahing night of DJ-ing at the newly revived Bristol Folk Festival with Mr Moray. Slap my wrists, sorry for being pants last month. I am soooo going to make up for it this month i promise. But what a month April was. It began at the end of the 'Life of Birds' tour with the Dumnonia launch gig at Fingle Bridge on Dartmoor.
March On
02/03/11What happened to February? I thought i was supposed to be doing a massive tour with Steve Knightley of Show of Hands fame? Oh yes now i remember, that did happen, just inordinately fast! I genuinly can't believe it's all over. Before we embarked on tour it appeared to be a massive list of gigs that would take a lifetime to plough through. Well actually i don't think Steve would agree with me there, that's his normal life! But a new experience for me none the less. I was also quite unsure how the pair of us were going to work together, musically and personality-wise.
