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John McMahon

I promote outsider/experimental gigs in West Yorkshire as Black Acorn, and also co-produced the 2017 documentary, The Ballad of Shirley Collins. I'd just started my first, tentative forays into unaccompanied folk singing when the pandemic hit. Writing is also a lockdown development - with pieces for FRUK and The Quietus, thus far. I work in arts & wider public policy, and tweet - possibly too often - about that, plus (un)popular music, esoteric culture, folklore, stone circles and occasionally sport, at @JohnMcArts.

Interviews

Simon Costin on “Ritual Britain”

8 June, 2021

John McMahon interviews Simon Costin, Founder/Director of the Museum of British Folklore, about “Ritual Britain”, a spellbinding new exhibition on British calendar customs – a collaboration between the museum and the artist Ben Edge which is running at London’s Crypt Gallery now.

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