Listen to the highlights of the Chesham Literary Festival poetry competition awards ceremony held at the Town Hall, Chesham on 12th July 2024. It was a great evening. Many thanks to the four judges - Emily Townsend, Valerie Jack, Ben Batten & Jon Bickley, with additional thanks to Mark Jackson-Hancock and Pemby.

Invisible Folk is proud of the brilliant volunteers, poetry competition winners, commended poets, families and friends who made our awards ceremony such a success.

Keep an eye on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/invisiblefolkltd for future competitions and events.

Since Spring 2019 Invisible Folk are proud to have been the recipients of four Arts Council Grants.

In this podcast Jon Bickley talks about our relationship with the Arts Council and how that has enabled us to commission new compositions, new performances and to inject some money into the folk music community. You'll also hear some great music; without Arts Council funding it would never have existed.

For more information go to our Website https://invisiblefolk.com/

Singer/Songwriters Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes joined narrator John Palmer (director of the critically-acclaimed Vaughan Williams anniversary 'From Pub to Pulpit' Cathedral tour) to talk us through a new show entitled 'Ghosts, werewolves and countryfolk - the songs and stories of Sabine Baring-Gould'

Polymath and Victorian superstar Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was, amongst many other things, a best-selling novelist most notably for stories of ghosts, werewolves and Norse myths. Despite wide ranging interests he felt the most important part of his life was collecting songs from Devon and Cornwall, amassing more than 2000 songs. In the show Miranda, Jim and John interweave some of those songs with anecdotes from Baring-Gould's astonishing life and stories. Ticket info from https://www.mirandasykes.com/baring-gould-centenary/

Songs (in order of appearance):

Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - My Lady's Coach
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - Cottage Well Thatched
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - Last of the Singers

All songs Trad/Arr Causley & Sykes

Links to artist websites:
https://www.mirandasykes.com/
https://www.jimcausley.co.uk/