Karl Sinfield - Folk Music
@karlsinfield
Folk music, author/editor/owner of Sing Yonder books & albums. Links.sindesign.co.uk
Put your hands together for the hottest modern jazz band in Waitrose.
Tickets on sale now for my faithful Substack subscribers, on general sale next Saturday. So exciting!!!!
Something very exciting will soon be announced over on the Sing Yonder Substack, with the first to know being the paid subscribers, who will also get a priority special offer. If you want to know what's going on first, get involved! singyonder.substack.com
Five stars in Songlines magazine! Thank you @billyrough.bsky.social !!!
New one is out. A long one, with some cracking music, and an unmissable discussion of nosebleed lore. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-91-cl...
Absolutely love getting a creative unpackaging photo when people get their Sing Yonders. Thanks @satnamvocalist.bsky.social @highpeakrecordings.bsky.social @fredsl.bsky.social ❤❤❤
The CDs have arrived! Copies going out to paid subscribers today, then I will work through the preorders tomorrow. Thank you all for your support.
Representing @lunatraktors.bsky.social merch at my gig today. Look after each other ❤️ #folkagainstfascism
If you were hoping to have a nice peaceful journey on the 18.33 from Manchester Piccadilly to Glossop, I can only apologise.
If you ever need a bookmark, I have several going spare. 😏
Great sold-out night of tunes and songs with The Gally Canters, thoroughly enjoyable. 👍
Pre order link will be posted tomorrow. Ten brand new tracks specially commissioned for Sing Yonder. singyonder.substack.com/p/sing-yonde...
Exciting announcement coming very soon to paid Substack subscribers! Be the first to see the track listing for the new Sing Yonder album, to be released in April!
As is common with all research, I found this 1903 US clipping while looking for something else. They had a travelling tent show that apparently showed pictures while playing music. Did I just discover the inventors of the music video? Possibly. Anyway, meet Mr and Mrs Silver.
Another folk song about a Lord, but this one got his head chopped off for trying to depose the king of England. Seems a bit harsh. Anyway, some great music and interesting history, and I even got to sneak in some astrophysics. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-89-lord-d…
Just read this remarkable passage in Bert Lloyd's biography. For someone to be both outraged about some mildly erotic ballads, but also come up with the spectacularly profane and hilarious phrase "the scholarshit of fucklore" is actually quite impressive.
Another ballad about noble Lords getting rowdy, but this time it's in pursuit of class justice and social inequality. Topical stuff. I also got to have a lovely chat with my pal @helenlindley.bsky.social for the inaugural Sing Yonder video chinwag. 👍 singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-88-lo...
Name a more iconic ersatz shop window animatronic craftsperson.
Latest newsletter/episode/blog/chapter/missive/dispatch thing. I still don't know what to call it. Anyway, this is a tale of two songs intertwined. You're probably familiar with the Harry Belafonte version, but it runs much deeper than that. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-87-wa...
Well. I hadn't thought of the song in the context of it triggering a violent pro-vegan uprising, but here we are. Very very exciting news (for me anyway, others will almost certainly disagree 🤣) on the Roud 17 contribution front. We are taking traditional song where others fear to tread...
Small but enthusiastic audience in New Mills today. 😍🪕🕺🎻
Happy New Year, trad song fans. Due to illness among the contributors, I won't now get all the tracks in until the end of January, so extending the deadline for this again. Can't wait to hear what you have for us! singyonder.co.uk/compilation
The Mystery of Roud 86. Now in the Sing Yonder newsletter. singyonder.substack.com/p/roud-86-th...
The second Sing Yonder album is coming together. I was so delighted with the first one, I didn't think it could be improved upon. Well, it turns out the second will be just as good, and I can't wait to share it with you. A million thanks to all involved. ❤️
My mum and kids look like they are posing for the cover of the third and final album of a lesser known 1970s experimental prog folk band.