Angeline Morrison

I AM PROUD Collective — Angeline Morrison, Leonie Evans, Lizi Morse, Priscilla Andersohn and Rhiannon Takel — release their debut single I AM PROUD – in tribute to Sojourner Truth on 6th March, ahead of International Women’s Day. Drawing on Truth’s famous provocation “Ain’t I a Woman,” the Bristol-rooted supergroup has crafted a trans-inclusive folk anthem of solidarity and joy.

Taken from her new album OPHELIA, Angeline Morrison shares a music video for He Comes in the Night – “a ghost story that is also a love story. The imagined beloved vanishes with each new day, leaving only motes of dust and memories…”

Through OPHELIA, Angeline Morrison conjures a perfect, otherworldly landscape of hauntological folk music…imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by the Copper family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s fairy tales…

We Are Muffy (Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy) share the gorgeously quirky ‘Eel Song’ and ’20th Century Folk Hymnal’, the latter being the lead track from their new album “Lost Things Returning”.

Jon Bickley, Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne join forces on Grace Will Lead Me Home, exploring the controversial and complex history surrounding the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’.

Angeline Morrison’s The Sorrow Songs, voted No 1 in our Top 100 Folk Albums of 2022, is released on Vinyl today via Topic Records. Don’t miss her upcoming solo dates including Celtic Connections this month.

In February 2022, Mark Radcliffe of Radio 2’s The Folk Show launched 21st Century Folk. These songs are revealed for the first time today. The artists involved are Martyn Joseph, Thea Gilmore, The Young’uns, Chris Difford with Kathryn Williams, and Angeline Morrison with The Unthanks.

Today marks the release of Angeline Morrison’s latest album ‘The Sorrow Songs’ on Topic Records. Watch the new animated video by Marry Waterson for Unknown African Boy (d.1830), the first song she wrote for the album.

With ‘The Sorrow Songs’, Angeline Morrison set out to retell the stories of historic British Black ancestors through song. In this she has succeeded; those stories are now there for future generations to be retold & remembered. A gift and landmark folk album.

We catch up with Angeline Morrison at Sidmouth Folk Festival to talk about her forthcoming new album “The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience”, being released on Topic Records in October and more.

The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience is the upcoming record by Angeline Morrison, releasing on Topic Records label and produced by Eliza Carthy. Listen to her first single – Unknown African Boy.

Angeline Morrison’s ‘The Brown Girl’ is one of those rare records that feels perfectly weighted, entirely free of anything extraneous…the whole thing feels lighter than air. That is a remarkable achievement, given the gravity of the subject matter in many of these songs.