We have partnered with the National Coal Mining Museum for England, the National Maritime Museum and the Museum of English Rural Life to offer folk music artists an exciting creative and learning opportunity.
Six excellent artists were selected as musicians in residence at museums in Wakefield, Greenwich and Reading in an ambitious new scheme run by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, with funding from Help Musicians.
Each musician has explored creative links between the tangible culture and history of the museum’s collections and artefacts and the intangible culture and history of folk songs and tunes. Each artist worked over an extended period of twelve months at their museum, and in their museum’s local community. Each artist received a bursary of £5000 to develop a new music work to be performed at the end of the residency and deliver outreach activities to engage people with the museums and with folk music.
National Coal Mining Museum for England
Bryony Griffith and Andy Seward were Musicians in Residence at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
National Maritime Museum
Aimee Leonard and Joe Danks were Musicians in Residence at the National Maritime Museum in London’s Greenwich.
The Museum of English Rural Life
Jackie Oates and Pete Flood were Musicians in Residence at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading.
