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Norfolk’s very own! We’re thrilled to announce the Georgia Shackleton is coming to Oak Folk this September with music firmly rooted in the region’s folk tradition and its local landscape.
Georgia works with fiddle, voice, tenor guitar and drones to create crisp arrangements of old songs, and new compositions. Georgia is a critically acclaimed song writer, with self penned songs and traditional re-workings achieving national radio play on BBC radio 2, BBC radio 4, and a BBC 3 live session.
Georgia takes great influence from the traditional singers of the East of England such as Harry Cox, Walter Pardon and Phoebe Smith. Traditional material she performs often stems from her native East Anglia and her own compositions are often inspired by stories from the region and the areas unique, compelling landscape.
Her latest project, From the Floorboards is an album “shaped by history, the sea, and a set of extraordinary instruments’. For this, Georgia had the opportunity to play the Shackleton Violin – an instrument crafted by conservationist and luthier, Steve Burnett, from the original floorboards of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s former Edinburgh home. As a distant relative of the great explorer, Georgia understably had a keen interest in the project.
“Conceived as a time capsule in honour of polar explorers, and as a voice from, and for our struggling seas.”
