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  • EBBA Anniversary Conference Part 2

    When I posted my first blog about the EBBA Anniversary Conference I didn’t anticipate such a long delay between first and the second, but I guess that sometimes life just gets in the way. Anyway, here is my second post about my first ever trip to the States, of which I have some very fond…

  • EBBA Anniversary Conference Part 1

    It’s difficult to believe, but this time last week I had just arrived in Santa Barbara for my first ever visit to the USA. I flew into LAX and caught the airbus shuttle up the coast. As we came out of LA, the heavens opened on a hailstorm, followed by a beautiful, vivid rainbow. It…

  • Recording the Jigge

    Over the last couple of days, preparations for the performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge in Brindle in June have really begun to get underway. I’ve printed out a stack of rehearsal scripts, and had a chat with the director. We went down to visit the community hall a few weeks ago and thought about how…

  • I really can sing…

    Honestly, I can. There aren’t many things in this world that I’m sure of, but that is one of them. Up to now, most of the videos on my YouTube channel have been of Tudor ballads, for the obvious reason that that is what I spend my time working on and my public engagement tends…

  • Happy Birthday RHC!

    This year is the 50th birthday of Lancaster University’s Regional Heritage Centre, an organisation I’m proud to be involved with – I’ve mentored on their excellent FutureLearn MOOC, Lancaster Castle: the View from the Stronghold; I teach on their PGCert course; and of course I published John Balshaw through them a couple of years ago.…