London Experimental Ensemble with Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Hoyem, Marissa Nadler and Gina Fergione - Child Ballads: The Final Six

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: LPDG288 
Barcode: 634457140042
Release Date: 15 Sep 2023
Genre: Jazz

The Child Ballads are 305 songs/broadsides of the British Isles - Created between three and five hundred years ago, they have become synonymous with modern folk music since the 1950s - The final six ballads (#'s 299-305) were never put to music until now.

Assembled here are Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention), Sivert Hoyem (mult-platinum Norwegian music giant), Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding), Ed Pettersen (Award-winning singer-songwriter/producer), Gina Fergione (composer/choir director) and Marissa Nadler (Indie-rock royalty) weaving beguiling original melodies to these classic tales of magic, love lost, myth, and high drama.

The London Experimental Ensemble backs them.

Tracks: Child Ballad 300 (Blanchflour and Jellyflorice) / Child Ballad 301 (The Queen of Scotland) / Child Ballad 302 (Young Bearwell) / Child Ballad 303 (The Holy Nunnery) / Child Ballad 304 (Young Ronald) / Child Ballad 305 (The Outlaw Murray)