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"Angeline Morrison crafts hauntingly beautiful folk injected with a captivating blend of melancholy and darkness, accompanied by the poignant strings of the autoharp. Her latest works are visionary re-writings of Black people’s experiences into a tradition that largely ignored them. History in the making FFO: Buffy Sainte Marie, Shirley Collins, Shovel Dance Collective."
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A gig held at The Wardrobe Theatre on Tuesday 31st March. The event starts at 19:30.
Ear Trumpet & Greenbank Folk Club Presents Angeline Morrison
Angeline is one of the leading voices in English folk music today, celebrated for her soulful, resonant voice, evocative songwriting, and deeply affecting performances. Her artistry has earned standing ovations on stages large and small, with Mojo ranking her #5 among key voices of 2023.
A singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Angeline’s music explores ordinary lives with reverence and curiosity. Accompanying herself on autoharp, dulcimer, and mbira, or singing unaccompanied, she delivers performances that linger long in memory. The Birmingham-born musician has lived in Cornwall for many years, where she is an active figure in the local music scene.
Her groundbreaking album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience, released on Topic Records, illuminated the often-overlooked Black British presence within the folk canon. Hailed as The Guardian’s Folk Album of the Year, it spent 15 weeks in the Top 40 Official Folk Albums Chart and is described by Angeline as a re-storying and a gift to forgotten Black ancestors and today’s folk community.
In recent years, Angeline has performed at major festivals and venues, including BBC Proms at The Glasshouse in Newcastle and Glastonbury Festival and made her TV debut on Later With Jools Holland during Black History Month 2022, singing Unknown African Boy. She is also sought after for radio appearances on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 6 Music.
Angeline’s diverse influences span folk, soul and other genres, having performed in projects like The Mighty Sceptres and Rowan: Morrison. Currently, she records and tours with her band and collaborators. Her forthcoming album, Luminous Dark, explores themes of alchemy, magic, and decolonisation, embracing the transformative power of the union between darkness and light.
Greenbank Folk Club & Ear Trumpet Music are committed to developing our access & inclusion in every aspect of what we do. Please get in touch if you have any particular access needs or would like to make a suggestion for how we can do things better in the future. We encourage you to fill out our survey after each event so we can hear your thoughts - QR code available in the venue.
This event takes place at The Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West St, Bristol BS2 0DF - there is currently level wheelchair access to this space and a disabled toilet very close to the venue
£20 and £15 tickets are available in advance - tickets on the door will be more. We strongly advise that you book in advance if you'd like to attend as we cannot guarantee there will be door tickets available if the event sells out.
This event will be seated. Seats are unallocated.
Please tell your friends and share this event - live music only takes place with the support of the community around us.
Ear Trumpet Music would like to thank Greenbank Folk Club and their partner organisations: The Greenbank, EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) and Arts Council England for their support in this project.
eartrumpet
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Angeline is one of the leading voices in English folk music today, celebrated for her soulful, resonant voice, evocative songwriting, and deeply affecting performances. Her artistry has earned standing ovations on stages large and small, with Mojo ranking her #5 among key voices of 2023.
A singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Angeline’s music explores ordinary lives with reverence and curiosity. Accompanying herself on autoharp, dulcimer, and mbira, or singing unaccompanied, she delivers performances that linger long in memory. The Birmingham-born musician has lived in Cornwall for many years, where she is an active figure in the local music scene.
Her groundbreaking album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience, released on Topic Records, illuminated the often-overlooked Black British presence within the folk canon. Hailed as The Guardian’s Folk Album of the Year, it spent 15 weeks in the Top 40 Official Folk Albums Chart and is described by Angeline as a re-storying and a gift to forgotten Black ancestors and today’s folk community.
In recent years, Angeline has performed at major festivals and venues, including BBC Proms at The Glasshouse in Newcastle and Glastonbury Festival and made her TV debut on Later With Jools Holland during Black History Month 2022, singing Unknown African Boy. She is also sought after for radio appearances on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 6 Music.
Angeline’s diverse influences span folk, soul and other genres, having performed in projects like The Mighty Sceptres and Rowan: Morrison. Currently, she records and tours with her band and collaborators. Her forthcoming album, Luminous Dark, explores themes of alchemy, magic, and decolonisation, embracing the transformative power of the union between darkness and light.
Greenbank Folk Club & Ear Trumpet Music are committed to developing our access & inclusion in every aspect of what we do. Please get in touch if you have any particular access needs or would like to make a suggestion for how we can do things better in the future. We encourage you to fill out our survey after each event so we can hear your thoughts - QR code available in the venue.
This event takes place at The Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West St, Bristol BS2 0DF - there is currently level wheelchair access to this space and a disabled toilet very close to the venue
£20 and £15 tickets are available in advance - tickets on the door will be more. We strongly advise that you book in advance if you'd like to attend as we cannot guarantee there will be door tickets available if the event sells out.
This event will be seated. Seats are unallocated.
Please tell your friends and share this event - live music only takes place with the support of the community around us.
Ear Trumpet Music would like to thank Greenbank Folk Club and their partner organisations: The Greenbank, EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) and Arts Council England for their support in this project.
eartrumpet
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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