Understories - Whalebone & Jean Atkin at Bishop's Castle Library in Shropshire is this Friday - 26th April at 10.30am - hope you can make it! 
Friends of Bishop's Castle Library - It's free entry, unreserved seating :)

Lovely first afternoon playing at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm this afternoon - handy porterage service too 😁

We’re helping to promote Folk at the farm - an all day festival celebrating folklore, storytelling and music in Shropshire on 20th July taking place at Acton Scott Museum!

More info and ticket / booking info: www.folkcc.co.uk

Had a great afternoon at Ludlow Library performing Understories with Jean Atkin yesterday - thank you to all who came along and heard some tales of Shropshire!

The feedback from the project continues to be amazing - one person wrote in our comments book it was the 'best hour of my life' (see photos).

We also became members of R.A.T.S. (Real Ale Tasting Society) and got the badges to prove it - which was an added bonus! And quite possibly made that the best hour of Steve's life :)

'Gabriel in Brook Vessons' is taken from 'Understories' our collaboration with poet and writer Jean Atkin. Combining instrumental music and poetry, this track tells the story of Gabriel and Selina, a couple living in Brook Vessons. Brook Vessons was a 19th century lead miners' squatter village under the Stiperstones, which kept to the tradition of the one-night house.

One-night houses had to be constructed literally overnight, so that at dawn a fire could be lit in the hearth, and smoke rise from the chimney.