Bird song

Bird song

“You can muffle the sound of the drums, you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who can stop the skylark from singing?” Kahlil Gibran Over the summer I’ve been making music round campfires, in streets and churches. In churches there’s been...
Improv

Improv

IMPROV Last week was a good singing week – bounded at either end by a good solid Latin Mass (the first of which was a 4-parter by Palestrina, bliss), in the middle I did two pub gigs and a Cole-Porter afternoon, plus a day improvising in London. The improvising...
Chicken book

Chicken book

CHICKEN COOPS FOR THE SOUL – http://bit.ly/Coops1 When Julia Hollander went to buy her daughter a rabbit for Christmas she came home with a couple of hens. Five years later, the whole family was on its way to the National Poultry Club show, connoisseurs of the...

HOSPITAL EXHIBITION

My paintings and drawings were recently showing at the John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford – in the main corridor for May and June 2013 Great to bring some nature-inspired joy into that serious and oh-so-unhealthy place!