Whalebone

New release - The Sound of Silence 

Our latest recording, our version of the classic tune The Sound of Silence, is released today! We’ve tried to capture the fragile beauty of the original 1964 Simon and Garfunkel recording, re-creating Paul…

Sunshine, blue skies, birds singing, a hot air balloon drifting overhead, and an audience filled with friends, just about the perfect setting for our first ‘proper’ concert since early 2020. 

On Sunday we made a somewhat emotional return to our…

Eliza 

We wrote Eliza to capture the essence of summers long past. It was written in response to Jean Atkin’s beautiful poem Eliza Remembers Lordshill After Noon, a wonderful evocation of a long ago summer’s day in the Shropshire hills…

We're performing at The Navigation Inn Carnival on September 4th - we start at 7pm, it's outside and people are asking to bring their own seats :)

Loved performing Understories with Jean Atkin as part of the Arts Alive Festival held at SpArC in Bishops Castle - after a rehearsal at Quatt Village Hall! Our first live performance in 16 months, thank you to all that came…

Litha is the old Celtic name for the solstice which occurs on 21st June. It is a pause, a time of stillness. From this point the Earth will move to a different cycle, with days shortening or lengthening. It is…

Here's the full version of our contribution to the Embrace of Trees online Zoom event! We got up very early in the morning on a Tuesday at the start of May to catch the dawn chorus and the sunrise over…

We're going to be part of a lovely tree themed online launch event for Kate Innes's fantastic new children's book 'Greencoats'. We'll be joining Kate, storyteller Andy Harrop-Smith and storyteller folklorist Suzanne Tumnus to bring you 'Embrace of Trees' this…

In the past 6 months we've practically lived in the studio and have recorded a lot of new music. And maybe staying in one place and not travelling has brought out our mellow side, as much of this new material…

We’re really excited about our latest release, Shooting Stars, as it’s a first for us, a collaboration with New York based pianist/composer Shoshana Michel. We’ve known each other for a while now and have a growing admiration for each…

Our new tune Carding Mill Valley was inspired by one of our favourite places in the rolling Shropshire hills. Nestling into the south eastern flank of The Long Mynd, just outside Church Stretton and overlooked by the Iron Age hill…

For obvious reasons we’ve been unable to organise face to face workshops for the past 13 months, so to make up for this, last year a group of our workshop friends got together to record a video as The Covid…