News
- Folk Factory 2020 - Our Lockdown 10 Dec 20
- Soundpost Singing Weekend 2020 Cancelled - New online event announced! 18 Aug 20
- SINGING SPECIALISTS ANNOUNCED 28 Apr 20
- Lakeland Song Cycle 07 Apr 20
- Singing Weekend - Artist Announcement! 17 Mar 20
- Second Artist Announced! Singing Weekend 2020 13 Mar 20
- Singing Weekend 2020! 02 Mar 20
- Bursary Places at The Fairy Gathering! 27 Mar 19
- Soundpost Singing Weekend: The Fairy Gathering Workshops 16 Mar 19
- Soundpost Singing Weekend: The Fairy Gathering 18 Feb 19
- Sheffield Carol Event @ The Winter Garden Saturday 8th Dec 03 Dec 18
- Soundpost Singing Weekend: The Fairy Gathering 21 Nov 18
- Singing our socks off! 14 Jun 18
- Big Singing at The Wanton Seed Singing Weekend! 09 Jun 18
- Folk Factory Update! 25 Feb 18
- Carolling Away! 11 Jan 18
- Sheffield Carols at the Winter Garden 21 Nov 17
- We've got a new website and a new look. 30 Oct 17
- Babies, Bubbles and Brummies 09 Oct 17
Soundpost Singing Weekend: The Fairy Gathering
We’re getting really excited about our next Singing Weekend in May and hope you can be there! Tickets are available here!
We have some fantastic artists joining us. Here’s a bit more about them...
Fay Hield
Fay makes new music from archival sources, weaving the old into new words and sounds that resonate with the people and places she encounters. She has toured and recorded with various BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning projects, including curating The Full English Band and her own group, The Hurricane Party. Her research at The University of Sheffield looks at the English folk scene to discover how it builds a sense of community, how artists play with traditional materials and how audiences receive them.
Lucy Farrell
Lucy has been a member of several highly acclaimed bands including Eliza Carthy’s Big Machine and The Furrow Collective. An inveterate collaborator, many have been entranced by Lucy’s haunting and quintessentially English voice, subtle and instinctive musicianship and her ability to connect emotionally with an audience. Lucy works with ballads that inspire her own compositions, but in their own handed-down beauty and strangeness tell fantastical stories beyond our imaginations.
Ben Nicholls
Ben is a double bass player and multi-instrumental musician whose work crosses many genres. He has performed and recorded in studios and stages across the world. As a singer and instrumentalist he is known for his work with the Full English and also as a co-writer on the Mercury Music Prize nominated Nadine Shah album ‘Holiday Destination’, as well as featuring on many TV shows, films and adverts. He has also released several albums with his own bands Kings of The South Seas, Dennis Hopper Choppers and Menlo Park.
Ewan MacPherson
Now based in the Highlands Ewan has worked as a multi-instrumentalist in the vibrant Scottish scene for 20 years. Ewan is a member of Shooglenifty and Salt House, and has taken stages around the world with a wide range of traditional and contemporary folk/roots artists. Liverpool born with family ties to Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Ewan completed a BA at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and was later nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2014 MG Alba Trad Music Awards.
Terri Windling
Terri is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of award winning books for children and adults. One of the primary creative forces behind the 1980s mythic fiction resurgence Terri is recognized as one of the founders of the urban fantasy genre, having published the first novels of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and other pioneers of the form. As an author, Terri’s fiction includes The Wood Wife and several children's books. As an artist, Terri’s work is inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Her art has been exhibited across the US, as well as in the UK and France.
Marry Waterson
Part of the Waterson family musical dynasty, Marry has thrived on communal music making while developing highly original and distinctly English performance styles of her own. Words appear, phrased in a way that suggests music. With melody comes rhythm, her interior playground is a place where real life is refracted through the myths, legends and proverbs that shape the “folk memory”. Inscriptions on headstones; Aesop’s Fables; Japanese superstitions – all have their part to play. Three time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominee, Marry has released four albums on the One Little Indian label and has worked with many stellar musicians including Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Portishead's Adrian Utley.
Barney Morse-Brown
Duotone (the alias of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and live looper Barney Morse-Brown) is an alchemist, weaving a plethora of instruments including his pioneering and unconventional cello playing and masterful use of a looper for his gentle vocals, into a blanket of intimacy. Barney learnt the cello age six, he went on to study at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and to win a scholarship in baroque cello at the Royal College of Music. Barney has since worked with many high-profile musicians including Maya Youssef, The Imagined Village and multi-platinum award-winning artist Birdy, with whom he toured all over the world.



