Shirley Collins/Alasdair Roberts/Trembling Bells – review

Cecil Sharp House, LondonIt's Halloween weekend in Camden, north London, and ghosts are rising at Cecil Sharp House. Tonight is a celebration of folk songs old and new; of people long-dead who collected and sang them; and of the new generation waking the spectres. Shirley Collins, who hasn't sung live for 30 years, is tonight's star turn, giving a lecture about how folk music was rescued. Her set sits stoutly between the two younger acts, who show how the genre's recent revival has spun in diff...

Read full article Share article