Nightjar is my first solo album and I'm grateful to have fantastic musical collaborators... Neill MacColl (Seeger/MacColl), Ben Nicholls (The Full English), and David Tomlins. Dave Izumi at Echo Zoo Studios in Eastbourne engineered, mixed and mastered.
Working solo for the first time last year, I sang The Birds In The Spring for The Nettle Dress documentary, a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft, singing to open for film screenings.
My recent history includes writing and singing with Chalk Horse Music, looking at traditional music in Sussex and using local stories as inspiration for songwriting. This included a related monthly radio show focusing on Sussex and the folklore, folk music, rural crafts, ecologists, artists, charities and more found here.
Prior to that...
My love of singing started as a child. I continued singing before working with Darren Pearson in London in 1997, working for Warner Music by day and writing in the evenings. Meeting Ahmet Ertegen, together with the label's history was hard to resist and we signed with Atlantic Records, releasing an album that led to a number 1 Billboard club hit.
Photo: Saira Niazi @livinglon
Women In The Folk, 2019