Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme
“I saw folk music’s future. It was an exciting glimpse of an alternative, fresh and vital approach to presenting traditional music” FRoots
Three of the UK’s most innovative, award-winning folk artists reinvent a collection of broadsides – daily song sheets sold for pence - giving a rare insight into Britain’s history. Delving into the collection at the Bodleian Libraries and beyond, Lisa Knapp, Marry Waterson and Nathaniel Mann lead a five-piece band, bringing broadside ballads to life for a new generation
Lisa Knapp - voice, fiddle, autoharp
Marry Waterson - voice
Nathaniel Mann - voice, bowed banjo, electronics and meat cleaver
Barney Morse Brown – cello w/ pedals
Laurence Hunt – percussion
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Produced by Sound UK
Commissioned by Sound UK and OCM
Funded by Arts Council England
Supported by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Humanities Cultural Programme
