January 2022 Martin will be presenting his talk ‘Cotswolds Arts and Crafts and Folk Music’ as part of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Lecture series on 12 January 2022 at 7.30 pm. This was originally planned to be a live event but will now be online. For further...

The Covid Bug has meant the cancellation of so many events we were supposed to be involved in that we have lost count. This is a great sadness to us, not only because we are missing out on seeing so many friends, but because the most enjoyable thing about singing is...

Wildgoose Records do not, now, have any copies of 'Parallel Strands' But you can find both new and used copies on Amazon and EbaySome tracks from it have been included on 'Calm and Collected'.   This recording was a long time in the making. It had been on my...

2018 was another busy year with a number of events to promote Martin's book, in various parts of the Country. Nearer home Martin, with Shan's help, gave a presentation to the Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society about the weath of folklife to be...

I am delighted to report that my book,  As I Walked Out, Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall  (published in September 2017 by Signal Books, Oxford) has won two prestigious awards. The first is the W. G. Hoskins Prize,...