Windborne; Angeline Morrison
Joining us from New England in the USA, Windborne’s music has deep roots in traditions of vocal harmony. Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan share a vibrant energy onstage with a blending of voices that can only come from decades of vocal collaboration. But there’s another, crucial dimension to Windborne that roots their artistry. They are advocates of folk music’s long alliance with social activism, Labour and civil rights. Their latest project, Of Hard Times & Harmony, explores themes of social consciousness, as well as delivering moments of true hilarity and wit.
BBC Radio Scotland’s Travelling Folk describes Windborne as “subverting expectations and redefining the genre… absolutely phenomenal!”
Recently hailed as one of MOJO’s ‘voices taking folk into the future’, Angeline Morrison is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter whose work combines a deep love of traditional song, a deep respect for the hidden ancestral voices of Old Albion, and explorations of diaspora, nation and history. Angeline has played the acoustic stage at Glastonbury and appeared on BBC2’s Later With Jools Holland. In May 2022, her album The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs was voted The Guardian’s Folk Album of the Month. The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience traces the historic Black presence in Britain which dates back to at least Roman times, yet is often hidden, forgotten or unacknowledged. In December 2022 The Sorrow Songs was voted No 1 Folk album of the year in The Guardian.
