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Create Your Own!RECENTLY BBC RADIO YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE FOLK PROGRAMME RESIDENT POET. Started a hundred years ago as a POET covering a wide range in style and content from the literary to the idiomatic use of language. Always a PERFORMER.Member of both Equity and the Musician's Union.His most requested work in performance is 'ROAD RAGE' from his debut CD 'CHANGING TRACKS'. His most POPULAR BOOK(currently available) is 'FAREWELL TO FRIENDS', (108 poems for reading aloud at memorials or funerals. Can also be used as a comfort book for the bereaved) AVAILABLE from the Bands WEBSITE. www.tonymorrispoet.com ALSO the first of 10 Albums of these poems with music IS NOW solely available as downloads from www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk As a taster THREE tracks have been put up on this myspace site.Tony moved on to everything that follows:SONGWRITER: IRONSTONE MINING SONGS written and sung in TRADITIONAL FOLK idiom collected on CD 'TRAPPY LAD'. also MANY OTHER SONGS comic and serious, historically filled whaling songs and shanties. Ever expanding repertoire, often to order or commission.MUSICIAN: SPECIALIST IN FREE FORM IMPROVISATION TO COMPLEMENT THE SPOKEN WORD.ACCOMPANIST: Accompanies other poets and performers with improvised music.PERFORMER: Performs his own poetry with musical accompaniment.www.tonymorrispoet.com FOLK PERFORMER: Performs his own folk songs, poetry and stories to his own multi-instrumental accompaniment.STORYTELLER: Tells stories in the form of poems and songs with musical accompaniment.In performance MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS are USED RATHER THAN PLAYED MELODICALLY. They are, principally: Guitar, lyre, kantele, harp, Bowed Psaltery, Appalachian Dulcimer, Harmonica, Native American Flute, Bodhran, Djembe, Didgeridoo.RECENTLY added is a one person IMPROVISED PLAY, 'IRON RUSH'. 'TOM LENNARD', a 150 year old IRONSTONE MINER, has been remarkable preserved into modern times to tell the people of today about the incredible GREAT NORTH YORKSHIRE IRON RUSH 1850 to 1900. He tells the STORY and sings IRONSTONE MINING SONGS as a piece of LIVING SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY. To find out more about 'TOM LENNARD' go to www.myspace.com/tomlennard MORE INFO AND LINKS ON www.tonymorrispoet.com www.garageband.com.

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Member Since: 6/24/2006
Band Website: tonymorrispoet.com
Band Members: Tony Morris and occasionally others
Influences: John Renbourne, Bert Jansch,Wizz Jones, Martin Carthy, Vin Garbutt, Martin Simpson, Dick Gaughan, Brian McNeill, W.H.Auden, Stevie Smith, Phoebe Smith, Eliza Carthy, Tommy Sands, Hans Theessink, Vin Garbutt, Dan Evans, Lee Collinson, Margaret Bradford, Peter Bellamy, John Donne, William Shakespear, W.H.Auden, Graeme Miles.
Sounds Like: Original Entertainer on the Folk and wider Scene who sounds like no other as he has a wide range of his own songs, stories and poems and multi-instrumental music and is constantly experimenting and changing.
Record Label: Own
Type of Label: None

My Blog

More Songs

New on site iLike player with many more songs. Have a listen.
Posted by Tony Morris on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:49:00 PST

Check out this event: NEW ALBUM-FAREWELL TO FRIENDS-ALBUM ONE

Hosted By: Tony Morris When: 06 Oct 2007, 19:00Where: Woven Wheat WhispersWoven Wheat WhispersN/A, N/AUnited KingdomDescription:Tony Morris Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Tony Morris on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:17:00 PST

NEW VIRTUAL ALBUM download now from www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk

NEW Virtual Album 'Farewell to Friends-Album One' now available to download from http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk Price £3. With this album the poet and musician Tony Morris commence...
Posted by Tony Morris on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:39:00 PST

North Yorkshire Folk

I have been asked to put this copy email up as a blog so more people can access it. So this and the earlier blog should be read together. Copy of email sent to [email protected]...
Posted by Tony Morris on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:10:00 PST

Demise of North Yorkshire Folk Programme

I have just received, on myspace, a copy of a letter sent by the BBC Radio York Manager to a Friend who took the time to protest about the North Yorkshire Folk Programme being dumped when Michael Brot...
Posted by Tony Morris on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:09:00 PST

BBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk

This week on BBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk LISTEN AGAIN ' The Redundant Engineer'. You can reach this by going to www.tonymorrispoet.com and clicking on North Yorkshire Folk where you will find ...
Posted by Tony Morris on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:52:00 PST

this Week on BBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk

If you go to BBC Radio York's Listen Again Feature you can listen to my poem The Ballad of Gellert along with good folk music. My slot is near the end of the 2hr programme. The poem tells the story of...
Posted by Tony Morris on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:26:00 PST

Background to songs on 'Trappy Lad' CD now available as a donwload

'Trappy Lad' is now available to download from Woven Wheat Whispers For those interested in the background to songs and the songwriting process I thought I should write this extended blog...
Posted by Tony Morris on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:49:00 PST

BBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk Programme

BBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk Programme goes out live for 2hrs on a Wednesday Evening at 20.00hrs GMT but you can get it the whole week on computer from a link on the Band's Website. 'Amer...
Posted by Tony Morris on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:14:00 PST

BBBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk and Charcoal Burn

BBC Radio York North Yorkshire Folk Programme goes out live for 2hrs on a Wednesday Evening at 20.00hrs GMT but you can get it the whole week on computer from a link on the Band's Website. 'American D...
Posted by Tony Morris on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:34:00 PST