How I became a folk ballad singer

Love, sex, death and booze are the stuff of folk ballads. Could an amateur singer and pop music fan ever do them justice? Jude Rogers gives it a try at Sidmouth Folk WeekBright and early one morning, in a church hall in Devon, a group of women are singing about murder and incest. I am one of them. "The police love this festival," says Sara Grey, our singing tutor. "They say, 'Your songs are so gentle, so pretty.' They don't realise!"I'm at Sidmouth Folk Week, the oldest folk festival in Britain...

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