To all our friends, followers, collaborators and musical colleagues -

Extraordinary production of Twelfth Night The RSC Stratford. Michael Grady-Hall as Feste stole the show, though the general ensemble was beautifully choreographed, and Sam West formidably tragicomic as Malvolio. Awesome.

Flooding at Charlecote today.

Happy Burns’ Night to everyone! Here’s an Address to the Haggis by our friend John the piper, from a ceilidh we played 8 years ago for the Wellcome Sanger Institute Genome campus at Hinxton Hall. youtu.be/SFn7Wel78iM?si…

David & Andrew’s Northumbrian small pipes duet has hit 10k views on YouTube! Never been able to explain this success maybe the Irish diaspora loving O’Carolan? It won the National duet competition in 2020. youtu.be/5JYBgSvqM_I?si…

At the indexing stage with our new book, Playing the Archive: from the Opies to the Digital Playground. Current first entry is “A Fart went Rolling Down the Hill”. Holding out for “Zombies” as final entry. Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 uclpress.co.uk/book/playing-t…

Huge congratulations to Nick Park & Aardman for the two (so far!) BAFTAs for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which I was privileged to see at the BBC preview.

Terence Fleming Lin Webb Clucasclane andrew burn has worked on the collections of these at the British Library British Library

And here we are on the Main Stage lineup at the Bury Folk Festival. Hurrah! buryfolkfestival.co.uk/music/

A song by us about the Cullercoats fishwives, written by Andrew Burn, performed at the Annual Concert of the Northumbrian Pipers’ Society this year. #tradsongtues #TradSongTues youtu.be/9mu2kcVtC1Y?si…

Here’s a former band of ours, Cobblers Last, with The Bansha Peelers, who arrest a goat for being drunk and disorderly!@TradSongTues #tradsongtues youtu.be/2U-IhS3k19A?si…

Here’s Andrew’s tune for the Equinox - The Equinox Hornpipe. Performed here on Northumbrian pipes by Andrew and David, with David’s seconds. Bury Folk Festival Ely Folk Festival on.soundcloud.com/Y5RUHGs1SEo1Y3…

Here’s the official poster for the Bury Folk Festival - very pleased to be playing. See you there!

Publication day! For our new book - Playing the Archive: from the Opies to the Digital Playground. Thanks to our brilliant research team, to our great publishers UCL Press - and to the Opies themselves. uclpress.co.uk/book/playing-t…

This book offers a reflective account of a large-scale project documenting children's play across generations, using intergenerational dialogue to illuminate the changing landscapes of play. Read it free: bit.ly/4hZgYKQ #OpenAccess #SocialHistory #Anthropology

Lovely time at the British Academy today launching our new book Playing the Archive. Get it UCL Press OA. Thanks to The British Academy for all their support. Here’s the project team - happy memories!

Looking forward to playing again at the lovely St Neots Folk Festival tomorrow. One of our favourites!

Great gig at St Neots Folk Festival last night. Always an amazingly friendly and welcoming group of people. Thanks to the club.

Had a blast at the lovely Bury Folk Festival last weekend. Thanks to Gavin for booking us, and to Calvin for the sound. Bury Folk Festival

#tradsongtues Sorry I'm late again, I'm not too well at the moment. Next Tuesday 15 July, is the closest we get this year to Bastille Day so our theme will be #french. So anything that mentions France, or is a french song or french Canadian.