"The dance floor owes more to gospel than is usually acknowledged. Here we have a joyful and unashamed union of foot stomping, finger clicking pop with heavenly choirs - the kind of thing Peter Gabriel once used to do so well. Just enjoy!"

Red Shoes

This beautiful song was written to commemorate the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.  It won 'Best Original Song' at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for its writers, Peggy Seeger and her son Calum MacColl.

From the album Everything Changes - available now from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1piKcUt  and iTunes: http://bit.ly/1ocvNMd

Swim To The Star

Happy Ending

Morning Chorus, Car Park in Ford, Wiltshire. Jan'17

Evensong at Beech Tree Woodland, Wiltshire, July'16

Reeds & Rushes

Jo Taylor - words, music, vocals and piano

Different Path.MP3

Helen Moore and Niall McDevitt recite 'Earth Justice', inspired by a transcript of the ecocide trial held in October 2011. The ecocide trial was held to promote attempts by British environmental lawyer Polly Higgins to persuade the United Nations to class Ecocide as a 5th Crime Against Peace.

Helen Moore and Niall McDevitt - Earth Justice

Welcome to the ancient nearly new...(trad. & rewritten 2010 or so)

Robin Hood and Little John
Have both gone to the fair, o
and we will to the merry green wood
To salute the buck and hare, o

Chorus:
Hal an tow, jolly rumbalo
We were up long before the day
To welcome in the summer, to welcome in the May
Oh summer is a-coming in
And winter’s gone away

We may hear the cawing of the crow
Prime Ministers may come and go
But come the merry month of May
Everything must glow-ee-o

And as for that good knight, St. George
They say he lived and breathed in Palestine
If that Mister George flew in today
They’d bang ‘im up in Harmondsworth I say

We’re on and off the heavy brew
Juggernauts may rumble through
But come every merry month of May
Our revels will be born anew

Let’s chance the dawn and dance our fate
Whether with or without a mate
It may be getting very late
But ne’er too late to celebrate

You can keep your capitalism, 
But please don’t run off with the blossom
Has anybody seen my old friend 
Jack-i-the-Green?

Hal an tow...

PS. Thanks to Del Bailie for most of the arrangement!

Hal an Tow

I'm available for tunes and merriment in the woods, forest school-style and otherwise; also on the lookout for musical compatriots to navigate choppy uncharted times with rhythm, harmony & poetry...www.hedgemustard.org

Hal an Tow

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