'Old Songs', an evening in words and music

Amy Jeffs, author of Storyland and Wild, and musician Natalie Brice bring to life Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads telling the stories and singing the songs.  

'I have fallen so completely in love with this book... just one of the finest, most covetable things around' Katherine Rundell

Singing of travel, mystery, magic and the deepest wellsprings of human feeling, Old Songs threads a tapestry through Britain’s landscape and cultures. Within the pages you will meet Orpheus, Robin Hood, Arthur and Guinevere, as well as more mysterious, half-lost figures like Tam Lim, Child Waters, Horn and Glasgerion. Under hills we can scale to this day, elf queens kidnap hapless poets and carry them through rivers of blood. At the foot of a tree with ancestors in the forests

of Northumberland, a girl tenderly combs the hair of a dragon who was once her brother. These songs,…