Sing Yonder: A Practical Guide to Traditional Song

A monthly postcard from the English countryside: nature, the rural year, and a village newsletter. Book news and other personal updates at the top.

Devotions to the living world through folklore and song

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

keeping up to date with all the happenings at burd towers.

On songs, songholders and other objects.

Folk from the past, folk from the present, folk for the future

With so many online events going on right across the folk scene, it can be hard to keep track – and that’s where The Folk Forecast comes in! Subscribe for listings of UK digital folk events, delivered to your inbox.

Folk-punk, onomastics, etymology, real ale, fairness.