#debbie armour

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Ben McElroy, Elkwort, (Vinyl (200 Limited Edition / hand numbered), CD (150 Limited Edition / hand-numbered & sealed), Digital album), laaps 043, laaps, 2025

Ben McElroy: composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation Elinor Rowlands: spoken word on 'The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times' Debbie Armour: vocals on 'Kindling' and 'Deosil' Nick Jonah Davis: guitar and bowed weissenborn on 'A Dream Of Deosil'

Artwork: Nieves Mingueza Design: Sprflxgrfzm

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A Tarot of the Greenwood (2022)

by Burd Ellen

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2021-07-24 Green Ribbons at Glengall Wharf Garden, London

No Frankie Armstrong here, but she was replaced by two singers whose names I'm afraid I didn't catch (so they will have to be, from left, Singer 1 and Singer 2).

Setlist:

The Well Below the Valley

My Geordie, Oh

Sweet Swansea [led by Singer 1]

Garden Song

The Heathery Hills

Running Waters (?) [led by Singer 2]

Here’s a Health Unto All True Lovers

Green Ribbons

Jeannie Jenkins [from the singing of Isla st Clair]

Meeting is Over [from the singing of Dillard Chandler]

Lady Margaret

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Alasdair and Debbie Armour (a.k.a. Burd Ellen) performing Farther Along  (which has cropped up in Alasdair’s live shows from time to time over the years), as part of the Songs of Loss and Healing project, I believe.

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Green Ribbons album review

The wonderful people at Folk Radio UK, and Thomas Blake in particular, offer up this review of the Green Ribbons album. 

Roberts’ My Geordie, Oh marries well-known Scottish melody to a more uncommon lyric. The final chorus, when Armstrong’s voice joins the others, reminds you of just how different, and how unique, each of these artists is. Roberts also treats us to the incredibly tender The Heathery Hills, a song of longing for a place and for a person, and Here’s A Health Unto All True Lovers, a beautiful duet with Armour taken from the singing of Mary Doran, a traveller singer from County Wexford...

On Green Ribbons, each singer brings something unique and subtly experimental to the table, and the result is a collection of songs that transcends genre and fuses the history of vocal music with the most exciting aspects of its present.

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2019-07-01 with Tartine de Clous and Neil McDermott, Cafe OTO, London

A set largely drawn from the Au Cube album, supported by Burd Ellen (solo, with guest appearance by Alasdair), and with a guest appearance by Brigid Mae Power.

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Various reviews

Of Fathoms by The Furrow Collective

Fiona Shepherd for The Scotsman (scroll down)

JPS for Spass und Spiele blog (in German)

Galoshins reviewed by Peter Alexander.

What News reviewed by Bill Golembeski for Soundblab (I seem to have missed linking to this back in March).

Debbie Armour has launched a solo project, Burd Ellen.

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In case you missed it: Alasdair recently did some recording in Brighton with singers Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong and Ben Webb. Watch this space for developments.