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The Compendium airs at 8pm (UK) on www.folkfridayradio.com @folkfridayradio.bsky.social and this week has a mainly #Canadian feel to it. Join us on here from 8pm when the artists' links are shared as their songs play on the show.

Big 🙏 to Andy at BDR for the first airplay for my new single, Dear Dorothy 📮

It’s #BandcampFriday and my latest single is available to preorder! Feel like sharing some Bandcamp love? 👉 shirleybarr.bandcamp.com/album/dear-d...

If you haven't yet followed my collaboration with @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social and #bethporter please give us a follow here: @theuntangledknot.bsky.social Things are beginning to take shape 😎

Our resident Blackbird seems to love joining in when I play in the garden. Awesome sun shiny BVs here. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy playing my guitalele! Here’s a bit from the one song I’ve written with it. So far. And yes. I do sometimes wish I were a Selkie. #selkie #guitalele #blackbird

Wee goodbye for @barrd.dev just the way he’d have wanted it. 12.07.26 | 14-16:00 | Sunshine Room, Park Ecovillage, Findhorn. Letting you know now so you can get it into your diaries for July. If you’d like to drop in and have a cuppa and a slice of cake we’d love to see you. Shirley, Mo & Ann x

Post-walk bliss 🐾

Our short ‘Solace’ has now moved from official selection to semi finalist over in LA! 🔥 @glennaoftheglen.bsky.social #isolafilms #MaciejWiniarczyk #ewanmorrisonauthor 👏

Don't miss the FISHERMAN'S BLUES REVUE at OSLO Spektrum on Mon 7 Sept! It's going to be a musical celebration! Tickets at www.ticketmaster.no/event/410529... #TheWaterboys

The Untangled Knot is a community based, collaborative music project focusing on issues of inclusion, freedom, and the things that make our local areas special to each of us. What makes your own area special? @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello

Sweet anticipation.

Is this perhaps my coolest gig to date? Opening for the daughter of a bestie? Yup. I reckon so. Here's some pics of Gwendy & I through the ages (with seriously questionable outfit & hair choice from me in 80s). Can't wait to see her this wknd. Sun 12th April. It's by donation. See you there? x

Some lovey words about TUK ! 🙏 @florgoth.bsky.social

I will be touring the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal and my new poetry book Let the Quiet Ones Rise from mid April #birmingham #margate #newcastle #edinburgh #tring #london #newquay #nottingham and many more www.robinince.com for details

One week to go! Can’t wait to play some songs with Nigel when we open for the incredibly talented human that is Holly Powers @phoenixcafe.findhorn next Sunday! See you there? Nigel & I have dusted off our SP cover for the night. Here’s a wee practise in my living room this week.

Our work together begins today, and this gives some idea of the spirit in which we will go about our tasks. Please book 21st November in your diaries, either to join us in person or join us online. @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello

Besties!

Guess who is on holiday. Volume up. 🔈

My London solo gig went on sale this week - tickets here www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...

Other side of the wings today. We had a wee photoshoot for our July GOS Universal Hall gig, and were very lucky with the weather! We’ll be telling you more soon. Thanks for being our 📸 Michael

Folkestone at 2pm today - bring a book to swap - I’ve got a few in my bag - let’s get a proper library open again www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/fol...

I’m currently obsessed. Have only seen Mrs B once, fleetingly this evening, but the nest looks fully formed. Mr B has been skulking near their hedge entrance this afternoon. Does that look like an anxious ‘father-to-be’ kind of face? Will she be laying soon? I feel very invested.

Part way through recording this song, ‘The River’. It's about enduring love inspired by an elderly couple I observed from a few seats away, on a train journey in 24. Time to start playing it live, so I've been practising. I’d like to add some trumpet. Eventually. Trumpeter suggestions, anyone?

One week today, and the knot will begin to untangle and you will be able to follow our journey as we build towards the pilot concert here in #Berwick on 21st November. More details next week (ish) @johnreed.bandcamp.com @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello

It’s a wrap! 7 years since I first walked into the office at Universal Hall & it’s time to move on to other things. Going to miss working with my lovely UHP teammates. More time for music-making. More time with my mum (who’s proper good company). Watch this space. Anything could happen.

Solace has a World Premiere date and location! 🤩 2nd July 2026 Seattle, Washington #firstsoundtrack

Nesting Blackbirds right outside our bedroom window 🐦‍⬛🥚❤️

Compendium #256, and we're trying something a little different in the music mix. So tune in on Wednesday 25th March at 8pm on www.folkfridayradio.com to find out what on earth I'm on about...

We four have opened a YouTube channel for all manner of things... www.youtube.com/@TheUntangle... Please give us a follow over there too! @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello

Last night in PJs & behind a curtain of newly washed hair I worked out The Rope on guitar so I can actually play it live solo. Accompanied by my beautiful new Low G shruti + Fara the dog, carpet rolling & snuffling the whole way through 🐾

And then there were two. Full G with Zen dog. #ShrutiBox #ZenDog #Drone

I'm delighted to announce that our collaboration The Untangled Knot has received generous funding from Create Berwick. Our pilot performance and afternoon music workshop will be here in Berwick on Saturday 21st November. @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello

It’s time for Keir Starmer to pick a side. From protecting our right to peaceful protest to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump. Join me in urging Starmer to choose people & planet over billionaire-backed bullies; act.gp/46qWAOI

Massive thanks to Create Berwick for their support! 🙏 @johnreed.bandcamp.com @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social #BethPorter

It’s good to have this one home for the weekend 🫶

A beautiful tribute to my brother Dave from this lovely lot 💙 Thank you @bristolwpmeetup.bsky.social

What a thing. Four sets of laurels for our short ‘Solace’ from Isola Films First soundtrack I’ve ever written and recorded. 🌊 Thanks @glenna_scacchi It’s been a minute since we last worked together!

Holly’s a huge talent & I’m delighted she’s playing up this way. Not only do I finally get to see her live - I’m opening for her too! Her mum & I have been besties since we were 10 (which is quite a long time) & it’s been a wonderful thing, watching Holly’s musical career flourish. See you there?

A wee bit of very welcomed good news. The short film that I wrote and recorded a soundtrack for is off to LA 🌊

Follow, listen, stream, buy It's #BandcampFriday Support our new collaborative project, which opens 2nd April @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello @theuntangledknot.bsky.social theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

🙏 for the lovely messages. We're truly touched by the outpouring of love & support for @barrd.dev ❤️ And a wee update. Dave will be cremated this week & as per his wishes, we'll gather as a family a bit later in the year to spread his ashes. Never one for pomp & ceremony was our Dave ...

It is with deep sadness that I share the news that we lost my beautiful brother Dave yesterday, suddenly and very unexpectedly from a heart attack. Son, brother, husband, uncle, and friend, he will be sorely missed by many. I'll probably be a little bit quiet on here for a while.

A little more about The Untangled Knot. Here, #BethPorterCello reveals dolphin noise impressions and a Kylie connection 😎 #TUK @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social

Here’s Rachel #TUK

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

I’ll be welcoming a new instrument, Friday. Because you can never have too many Shruti Boxes, right? 🤩 #shrutibox

This week, we’re introducing ourselves #TUK