FAY HIELD TRIO - Touring Dates March / April 2022

FAY HIELD TRIO - Touring Dates March / April 2022

Fay has teamed up once again with fiddle maestro Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron on concertina to tour songs from her new album, Wrackline, and some old favourites.

Exploring ideas of the space between, Wrackline was inspired by ghosts, fairies, spirits and talking animals to understand what it is about the unknown that entrances us. Working with traditional materials and ideas, Fay explores the feelings they evoke and how they relate to her experience in the contemporary world. Universal ideas of death, love, motherhood echo through time and space. Playing with these difficult ideas through the eyes of an unobtainable other, whether that be the spirit of a dearly departed, a fairy from another realm, or the thoughts animals have, gives us space to work through very real social problems.

Shifting between lighthearted stories about drunks sitting with pigs, to darker questions about infanticide, Fay breaths life and meaning into old stories presenting them with a fresh twist and consummate musicianship from Sweeney and Harbron including fiddle, concertina, guitar and banjo.

Expect to be enveloped in music, woven through magical stories and teased into thinking about your relationship with the world around you. 

Fay Hield – Folk Singer

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Fay Hield - Wrackline - Out now on Topic Records

 Fay Hield - Wrackline - Out now on Topic Records

Looking at traditional stories involving the ‘otherworld’ of fairies, ghosts and the animal kingdom, Wrackline explores our emotional responses to the space between their reality and our own. Fay is accompanied on the new album by a stellar cast of some of the finest folk musicians working today; Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls and Ewan MacPherson.

“Wrackline is split into 6 themes, including my interpretations of songs from within the tradition and contemporary responses. It’s my first foray into songwriting but it is firmly within the realms of folk music - drawing heavily on traditions but looking at how they are still relevant for us today. Perhaps in these strange times it’s particularly important to understand how stories can help us make sense of the world around us, both the world we can see and also those darker, less tangible things. In the run-up to the release, I will be sharing blog posts and podcasts which I hope will help you find a way into thinking about the mythical unknown. Maybe hearing how they’ve become important to me, can help you in this time of insecurity, to find some sense and beauty.”  Fay Hield, July 2020

Click below to watch the official videos for the first two singles.

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Upcoming Tour Dates

• 03 Sept 2021 - Sheffield - The Greystones 

• 04 Sept 2021 - Leeds - The Constitutional

• 05 Sept 2021 - Settle - Victoria Hall 

• 08 Sept 2021 - Gateshead - Sage Gateshead 

• 09 Sept 2021 - Salisbury - Salisbury Arts Centre

• 10 Sept 2021 - London - The Nest Collective

• 11 Sept 2021 - Wiveliscombe - Silver Street Sessions 

12 Sept 2021 - Topsham - Topsham Folk Club 

https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/

Wrackline, A New Album From Fay Hield

Wrackline, the new album from Fay Hield, looks at traditional stories involving the

‘otherworld’ of fairies, ghosts and the animal kingdom, the new work explores our emotional responses to the space between their realm and our own. Working through imaginary space to make things real. “We all search to connect with others – we are entranced by those we cannot connect with and find ways to tell their stories to explain our own.”

The album is set to be released this September and will contain some interpretations of traditional songs and responses to carefully selected songs exploring their meaning and drawing on personal experience and beliefs.

Fay is accompanied on the new album by a stellar cast of some of the finest folk musicians working today; Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls and Ewan McPherson.

Signed copies of Wrackline are available to pre-order from our store on Propermusic.com.

Pre-order Wrackline

Soundpost Singing Weekend 'Old Adam' 16-18 June 2017

 Soundpost Singing Weekend 'Old Adam' in Dungworth, Sheffield 16-18 June 2017. 

Workshop leaders include Karine Polwart, Fay Hield, Nancy Kerr and Gavin Davenport as well as many others. This is a rare chance to work closely with top UK Folk Artists and academics to learn more about song, the art of songwriting and the voice. In the past people have travelled across the world to work with theese guest tutors - this is a really exciting opportunity!

Find out more about each workshop, the weekend itself and how to book on the website here: 

http://www.soundpost.org.uk/old-adam/