Five stars in Songlines magazine! Thank you @billyrough.bsky.social !!!

Featuring a lovely review of the Sing Yonder 2 album! Get your copy, it's an excellent little mag, even when I'm not getting hyped up in it.

Sometimes the art of being a good graphic designer, and other things too I suspect, is being able to explain to someone why you are right without telling them they are wrong.

Gig glamour in the High Peak.

New one is out. A long one, with some cracking music, and an unmissable discussion of nosebleed lore. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-91-cl...

Volume nine of my book series is out now. open.substack.com/pub/singyond...

Two wonderful alt-folk and trad folk releases that I’ve mastered here recently. First up is ‘The Frog, The Mouse, The Ship, The Cabin Boy’ by @bitybooker.bsky.social which is something else. And second is the superb compilation ‘Sing Yonder 2’ curated by @karlsinfield.bsky.social. Big recommends.

Absolutely love getting a creative unpackaging photo when people get their Sing Yonders. Thanks @satnamvocalist.bsky.social @highpeakrecordings.bsky.social @fredsl.bsky.social ❤❤❤

Nothing makes me happier than an artfully presented de-packaging photo! Hope everyone's Sing Yonders (Sing's Yonder?) are arriving in pristine condition.

Exciting folkie post! Sing Yonder is a great, long-term (infinite?) project by @karlsinfield.bsky.social to make traditional folk song accessible. singyonder.co.uk/index.php

Happy release day to Sing Yonder 2! 🥳🖤🩶 Delighted to have been asked to contribute to this fab folk compilation. karlsinfield.bandcamp.com/album/sing-y... The compilation includes my version of ‘The Frog And The Mouse’ 🐸 🐭

It's out!!! The gorgeous Sing Yonder 2, featuring our "incredibly sad" (Clair's mum) version of the tragic Scots ballad Yarrow (Roud 13). Here's a little taste of our process...

The CDs have arrived! Copies going out to paid subscribers today, then I will work through the preorders tomorrow. Thank you all for your support.

Sing Yonder 2 is the featured album on this week's Alternative Roots radio! www.mixcloud.com/BrumRadio/al...

Representing @lunatraktors.bsky.social merch at my gig today. Look after each other ❤️ #folkagainstfascism

Little east coast Boggle Hole holibobs.

So excited about this compilation release I’m part of with so many inspiring folk artist and it gets released next week! 🖤 @karlsinfield.bsky.social Take a look 👁️ 👇 karlsinfield.bandcamp.com/album/sing-y...

www.sophielichens.com/post/sing-yo... 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

If you were hoping to have a nice peaceful journey on the 18.33 from Manchester Piccadilly to Glossop, I can only apologise.

Sing Yonder 2 - Track by Track open.substack.com/pub/singyond...

New episode out now! S3/E6 - Roud 26: THE CRUEL BROTHER Historical guest: Martin Nail Singer guest: Sophie Crawford Martin Nail is a London based singer, and anglo-concertina player, who works part time for the EFDSS as a cataloguer/archivist. Available from wherever you get your podcasts.

My day-to-day work is highly contingent on Internet Archive existing. As a researcher of cross-cultural anthropology, huge amounts of texts and books would be otherwise entirely inaccessible to me. It’s a treasure trove of all but forgotten documents.

Please support my top pals, and past and future Sing Yonder contributors. Campaign ends Sunday, so don't delay. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cul...

Cometh the hour, cometh the unit.

Great sold-out night of tunes and songs with The Gally Canters, thoroughly enjoyable. 👍

Very exciting news. Apparently I am handsome! Oh, and the album thing too, please buy, it's sooooo good, the lovely Lunatraktors and all the contributors have done an amazing job, I can't believe how well it's turned out. Can't wait till 25 April!

🔔 Some Bity news! 🎙️ I’m delighted to be included in @karlsinfield.bsky.social’s Sing Yonder 2 🖤🩶🤍 together with some brilliant artists singing folk songs on this fab compilation! The song I choose is ‘The Frog and The Mouse’ 🐸 🐭 Pre-order now: karlsinfield.bandcamp.com/album/sing-y...

Ten brand new tracks, specially commissioned for Sing Yonder. Preorder now. All proceeds from the sale of the album will be distributed equally to the artists. Sing Yonder does not profit from the sale of this album. Please buy a book (or three)! karlsinfield.bandcamp.com/album/sing-y...

Clacton Sabbath. Essex, drugs and rock and roll.

Pre order link will be posted tomorrow. Ten brand new tracks specially commissioned for Sing Yonder. singyonder.substack.com/p/sing-yonde...

Just listening to a US folk music podcast, and while they were enthusing about @billybragg.bsky.social they referred to his strong Birmingham accent. Poor Billy has been accused of many things, but never that.

Exciting announcement coming very soon to paid Substack subscribers! Be the first to see the track listing for the new Sing Yonder album, to be released in April!

As is common with all research, I found this 1903 US clipping while looking for something else. They had a travelling tent show that apparently showed pictures while playing music. Did I just discover the inventors of the music video? Possibly. Anyway, meet Mr and Mrs Silver.

Hello folkies, friends, musical adventurers, and people that want to give me a gig! Right. I’m here. What’s going on? Is it nice? Can I eat it, snog it, or dance on or about its grave?

Another folk song about a Lord, but this one got his head chopped off for trying to depose the king of England. Seems a bit harsh. Anyway, some great music and interesting history, and I even got to sneak in some astrophysics. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-89-lord-d…

Just read this remarkable passage in Bert Lloyd's biography. For someone to be both outraged about some mildly erotic ballads, but also come up with the spectacularly profane and hilarious phrase "the scholarshit of fucklore" is actually quite impressive.

So often when I come across someone who was found singing a song before 1900, we know nothing about the singer other than their name and location. It's great when we get a bit of life story too; Nora recounts the life of Emma Dusenbury brilliantly, well done Matt on finding another great guest!

Another ballad about noble Lords getting rowdy, but this time it's in pursuit of class justice and social inequality. Topical stuff. I also got to have a lovely chat with my pal @helenlindley.bsky.social for the inaugural Sing Yonder video chinwag. 👍 singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-88-lo...

Periodic reminder that if you are working on a complex Photoshop document and you are about to mess with text elements SAVE YOUR WORK BEFOREHAND. Thank you. 🙏

Name a more iconic ersatz shop window animatronic craftsperson.

Latest newsletter/episode/blog/chapter/missive/dispatch thing. I still don't know what to call it. Anyway, this is a tale of two songs intertwined. You're probably familiar with the Harry Belafonte version, but it runs much deeper than that. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-87-wa...

Appealing as it is, I can't afford to be poisoning the few readers that I have garnered.

Well. I hadn't thought of the song in the context of it triggering a violent pro-vegan uprising, but here we are. Very very exciting news (for me anyway, others will almost certainly disagree 🤣) on the Roud 17 contribution front. We are taking traditional song where others fear to tread...

Banging the drum for music education: the UK school run with an orchestra www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Small but enthusiastic audience in New Mills today. 😍🪕🕺🎻

Happy New Year, trad song fans. Due to illness among the contributors, I won't now get all the tracks in until the end of January, so extending the deadline for this again. Can't wait to hear what you have for us! singyonder.co.uk/compilation

The Mystery of Roud 86. Now in the Sing Yonder newsletter. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-86-th...

The second Sing Yonder album is coming together. I was so delighted with the first one, I didn't think it could be improved upon. Well, it turns out the second will be just as good, and I can't wait to share it with you. A million thanks to all involved. ❤️

My mum and kids look like they are posing for the cover of the third and final album of a lesser known 1970s experimental prog folk band.

Thanks for the advertorial James. FYI these exclusive vessels are only available to paid subscribers and friends.