Whalebone

Happy New Year!

Here’s to a 2021 being full of happiness, laughter and music

We thought it was muddy in the first pic, then we entered the next field, and the field after that! ........ #muddyboots #muddywalks

We’re getting towards the tail end of 2020, and what a year it’s been. It’s hard to imagine that anyone’s life hasn’t been turned upside down in the last 9 months, and for us our working lives may well have…

Our new album Totally Plucked is now available on Spotify!

14 tracks featuring steel and nylon string guitars along with mandolin, bouzouki, tenor guitar, bass, shruti box and low whistle. 

We hope you enjoy it and thanks so much…

Here's a tune we've recorded for the FOLK Community to celebrate Yuletide! Head over to their Facebook Page to discover more about Shropshire Folklore :)

A hundred or more years ago, long before radio, TV and Now That’s What I…

Totally Plucked is here! After a year of writing, rehearsing and recording, our first guitar duo album since There to Here is finally on the shelves. We feel the music on it really captures twelve months of influences and experiences…

We're having a clear out sale to make room for a delivery of our new album 'Totally Plucked'! All our CDs are £5.00 including the Understories CD and Poetry Book!

The Otter’s Holt is a swirling sinuous traditional melody which we released as a single earlier this year, featuring the hypnotic sound of the bouzouki. The tune really captures the otter’s movements in water, and we tried to mirror this…

Almost Green It’s a gentle tune played on nylon strung guitars with some Shruti box. Click on the button below to listen and download or follow the Spotify and Apple Music links below to stream and add to your playlists…

Mauchline's Farewell is a chilled out tune with a dreamy Celtic vibe played on steel string acoustic guitars, and the title was inspired by Char's Scottish heritage a few generations back! Click on the button below to listen and…

Follow the River is a tune written a few months back, in the strange, balmy days of early summer. The traffic noise had ceased for a while, birds were singing and the sun was shining, and cocooned in our studio…

Three million streams! 

Spotify didn’t exist when Whalebone first started and the idea of our music being played around the world would have been pretty unbelievable back then. Now our tunes are being played in over 70 countries worldwide… what…

'Caer Caradoc' is our latest release, and it’s out today!

Named after a hill in South Shropshire which we've climbed many times, Caer Caradoc is the latest tune in our dreamy, laid back nylon string guitar side project…