Bridget Hayden

Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions share “Our Ship is Ready,” a haunting folk track originally recorded for her acclaimed album Cold Blows the Rain. Taught to Hayden by her mother, this digital exclusive arrives alongside a new live video filmed in their hometown of Todmorden, capturing the ghostly atmosphere of her distinct experimental sound.

Watch Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions’ brooding live performance of ‘When I Was In My Prime’ at Todmorden Unitarian Church, where they’ll perform again in June for the Basin Rock all-dayer ‘Down Off The Tops’ also featuring Jim Ghedi, Juni Habel, Duncan Marquiss & Kevin Fowley.

The latest Folklore Tapes Ceremonial Counties series features a satanic brew from dbh and The Dark Pool that most contemporary stoner rock bands would sacrifice their grandmothers for and a satisfyingly devilish and wholly fitting companion piece from the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra.

While the latest in the Ceremonial County Series is entirely wordless, both convey striking and very different stories: Bridget Hayden’s mythic and haunting, Daniel Weaver’s inevitable and personal. Rarely can so much have been said, and so eloquently, in half an hour of instrumental music.

Taken from Cold Blows the Rain, the new eight-song collection from experimental musician Bridget Hayden, watch her latest music video for the traditional folk ballad Factory Girl, featuring archive footage from 1904 and 1956.

The performances on Bridget Hayden’s ‘Cold Blows the Rain’ are spellbinding. It’s an album as distinct and vivid as its characters are dark and illusory.

Bridget Hayden shares her new single, an interpretation of the traditional folk song ‘She Moved Through the Fayre’. The accompanying video features footage of Abingdon Fair and Goose Fair, filmed between 1970-1979.

Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions announce their new album Cold Blows the Rain, on which her vocals take centre stage as she sings traditional folk songs that she’s known all her life. Watch the accompanying 1940s archival footage video for ‘Lovely on the Water’.