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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...
Suthering – the artists formerly known as Julu & Heg
A new name, a new single, a new project. After three years of writing, arranging and performing together, folk duo Julu & Heg are stepping away from using their own names as their musical title. From Friday 19th March they will be known as Suthering. Julu Irvine...
Harbottle & Jonas – The Beacon – live stream album launch at The Barrel House 26 March 7.30pm
To celebrate the release of new album The Beacon, Harbottle & Jonas invite all to raise a glass and join them for a live stream from one of their favourite venues - The Barrel House in Totnes - starting at 7.30pm (GMT) on the 26th of March via their YouTube...
Grammy Award winning Julie Gold joins online songwriting retreat ‘From a Distance’
Grammy Award winning Julie Gold joins Reg Meuross & Findlay Napier on online songwriting retreat ‘From a Distance’ 2-4 February
Remembering Sophie Sholl – For Sophie (This Beautiful Day)
Remembering brave Sophie Sholl today on the anniversary of her death in 1943. For Sophie (This Beautiful Day) by Reg Meuross. In 18th February 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Christoph were arrested having been found distributing anti-war...
That Friday Feeling 22 Jan 2021
That Friday Feeling brings new releases from Tender Central, Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade and Steve Tilston alongside a bit of personal nostalgia for me from Marika Hackman. We also stretch out into '100 Miles of Nothing' with Charlie Dore & Michele Stodart...
12 Silk Handkerchiefs – remembering The Dark Winter
The winter of 1968 will always be known as the Dark Winter in the fishing community of Hessle Road and the wider maritime community in Hull and beyond. Three trawlers, the St Romanus, the Kingston Peridot, and the Ross Cleveland, were all lost at sea in the space of...
From A Distance – an online retreat with Reg Meuross & Findlay Napier
New restrictions in place in the UK have meant that the Company of Song residential songwriting retreat at Halsway Manor with Reg Meuross and Findlay Napier has moved online. From a Distance is a three-day songwriting ‘retreat’ that you can attend from the comfort of...
An Audience with Louise Goffin
Company of Song: An Audience With Louise Goffin - online - Thursday 14th January 6-7.30pm GMT Music and the joy of sharing creativity with others are the foundations upon which Company of Song was founded. Their team of songwriter facilitators includes the likes of...
Black is the Colour – new single from Harbottle & Jonas – out 15th January
Harbottle & Jonas release second single from their album The Beacon out March 26th – Black Is The Colour
fromthewhitehouse Artists Shortlisted for Fatea Magazine Music Awards 2020
As we all know 2020 was a tough year for musicians, and the great artists that we work with here at fromthewhitehouse were not exempt from those difficulties.
But everyone managed to pull together and somehow we negotiated album and single releases, streamed gigs, some ‘real-life’ gigs, and getting used to the ‘new-normal’ and we’re happy to say that four of our artists ended 2020 with nominations in the well-respected FATEA Magazine Awards.
Reg Meuross – six retrospective re-issues
Six titles from Reg Meuross’s back catalogue of albums which had been out of print for a while are being officially re released via Proper Records on Friday December 4th 2020. The re-issued titles are The Goodbye Hat (1996), Short...
Harbottle & Jonas bring hope with new single The Beacon
Dynamic Devon-based contemporary folk duo Harbottle & Jonas, have released a new single The Beacon, available HERE. Written and recorded at home, and featuring collaborator Annie Baylis on violin and backing vocals, The Beacon is the title track from Harbottle...
Ben Morgan-Brown and Anna Ling kick off a beautiful December run of live music – Great Hall Sessions Supper Club
Ben Morgan-Brown and Anna Ling & friends kick of a great December run of live music at Dartington – The Great Hall Sessions – supper club
Great Lawn Sessions #4 – Skeddaddle
The Great Hall Sessions #4 presents SKEDADDLE (Trio) on Saturday 31st October. Book your table / seats asap! BOOKINGS HERE. Skedaddle take their inspiration from New Orleans jazz bands of old, as well as gypsy jazz legends and some klezmer and eastern european...
Women in the workplace – Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall talk with Women’s Mass Debate
Women's Mass Debate podcast asks Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall 'What's it like being female in the music workplace these days?' Listen HERE and find out.
Singer, songwriter, storyteller Reg Meuross returns to Dartington for The Great Hall Sessions #2
The breadth and depth of Reg Meuross's material is unparalleled in contemporary folk: songs about forgotten heroes, famous names, folk legends, the climate emergency, tales from the kitchen sink and news from the world stage; if something needs to be sung about then...
The Ciderhouse Rebellion come to The Great Hall Dartington
Come and enjoy a drink, delicious fresh cooked food and listen to improv folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion live inside Dartington Hall on Thursday 8th October. The Great Lawn Sessions have been moved indoors to the Great Hall, to protect the Great Lawn during the...