A song inspired by various dawn walks and sunrises at Ross Sands in Northumberland, the castles at both ends and the seals you sometimes find.
Song Stories: An Hour Before The Dawn
Categories: Song Stories
Tag Archives: Northumberland
Arrangements of North-East Songs
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours
During the first half and a bit of 2024 The Bridge Singers were learning and performing mainly repertoire from the north-east of England. Here are the programme notes from the concerts with clips and information about the North-East songs I arranged for them.
Song Stories: Touch The History On The Breeze
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Song Stories
A Northumberland song composed for three local primary schools with verses on the river, the castle and the ocean.
Song Stories – The Felton Sycamores
Categories: Song Stories
The story of the song The Felton Sycamores in the form of a radio documentary, with notes and photos!
Song Stories: Magical Glass
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a song about glass: industry, art, usage, history, beauty. It’s also a bit of a drinking song!
Song Stories: Henry Hotspur Percy
Categories: Composery Life, Song Stories
During the Hotspur Festival of 2009, celebrating 700 years of the Percy family at Alnwick Castle, I wrote this 3-way partner song for a local school to perform in the town of Alnwick, Northumberland.
Song Stories: Up And Down The Buttery Stairs
Categories: Song Stories
It’s lots of food and drink! Vocabulary from Medieval times, an enthusiastic, Medieval-inspired style, a cheery round – what more could you want from a castle-y song!
