Angela and Paul have been singing together at Spalding Folk Club since 1984. They sing their own songs (mostly Angela’s, with a few tunes by Paul) and other people’s, such as Melissa Etheridge and Michelle Shocked. They like to sing traditional songs, too, especially heart-rending depressing ballads, but also heart-warming choruses. Paul adds the guitar, concertina and harmonies, and very occasionally, the fiddle. Angela likes to try out new songs by singing them to her goats but what they think about this has never been discovered. Somebody once summed them up as: “mellow vocals, imaginative guitar work and catchy harmonies both on their own compositions and a few established classics.” They have performed at folk clubs, pubs, churches, beer festivals, village halls, libraries, parties, theatres, live on the radio (ok, just Radio Lincolnshire) and once on TV and are open to any reasonable offer to play anywhere else.
As well as writing songs and looking after goats, Angela makes decorative rag rugs, one of which features on the cover of the latest CD. She exhibited a selection of this work at Stamford Arts Centre in 2001 and at Corby Glen in 2004. This is the bit that's on the CD:
All the tracks on the CD were written by Angela except Old Abandoned Music Hall and Sweet Violet which were written by Sharon Childs, and Spring Song where Paul wrote the tune. You can listen to a few samples by clicking on the links:
| Flowers from the Field |
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| Old Abandoned Music Hall |
Listen (505kb) |
| Begum's Ring |
Listen (403kb) |
| Early Days |
Listen (477kb) |
| Like St Swithin |
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| Spring Song |
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| Hear their Cries |
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| Salisbury Plain |
Listen
(348kb) |
| Sweet Violet |
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| Museum Trip |
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| Rocked in your Arms Again |
Listen (371kb) |
| Bodies in the Water |
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| Tokens |
Listen
(391kb) |
| Sun Moon and Apple Tree |
Some years ago they produced a tape of their own songs which featured a cover by well-known illustrator Liz Underhill, which looked like this:
If you'd like a copy of the CD which costs £10 you can order one by e-mail using the link below. The tape is now sold out but hand-made copies on CD are available on special order to patient customers - please e-mail using the link below.
Radio Lincolnshire Write a Lincolnshire Song Competition
Spilsby Theatre 11 Oct 2007
or write one of those old-fashioned letter things to
Angela King
The Cottage
Leaveslake Drove
West Pinchbeck
Spalding
Lincs
PE11 3QJ