Hedger and Ditcher

Also known as "Organic Field Mix", recorded and mixed by Richard Homme

Serving Girl's Holiday

Rehearsing Anne Briggs' lovely song "Go Your Way" with my beloved cousin Mae (Meta Hoepfner-Homme) in preparation for our 2011 Betta & Mae concert.

Betta & Mae - Go Your Way

Live in concert, March 5, 2016
Recorded by Michael Hoepfner

On A Cold Winter's Day

I love to sing a song that might have been sung by a shepherd in a shade or a dairymaid in a cow byre or a traveler along a dirt road some hundreds of years ago. I like to sing these songs as I work – to sing as I sew, spin, walk, chop vegetables, or poke about in the garden. I think of singing as a necessary part of life, to be carried out whether or not there is anyone lingering about to listen. I am a singer and a writer, but I do not write songs. What need have I to write new songs when the old ones are so winning? I know that even the oldest must have been new in some long-ago realm – but there is a kind of poesy clinging about these timeworn things that new songs are hard-put to achieve. For that, and for their rarity in this modern world, I am sure they deserve a little singing.

Elizabeth Ann Barlow