shirley collins

This Sunday, folksinging legend Shirley Collins is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She will be sharing eight tracks, a book and a luxury item that she would take with her if cast away to a desert island.

Archangel Hill is Shirley Collins’s third album since returning to the studio half a decade ago; this album and its two predecessors seem almost to relish their maturity and at 87, she continues to create some of the most exceptional music of her career.

Ahead of the release of Archangel Hill, Shirley Collins’ third album for Domino, she shares a second track from the record, “Hares On The Mountain”. Watch the accompanying video.

Shirley Collins returns with Archangel Hill, her third album for Domino. Due for release on May 26th, she has today shared her lead single and video ‘High and Away’. The album showcases another peerless collection of songs chosen by Collins, most from traditional sources but others from favourite writers of hers.

The songs on Shirley Collins’ ‘Crowlink’ are simultaneously ancient and new. It is an EP that can be elementally charged or unnervingly intimate but is never less than exquisite. 

Shirley Collins announces new EP, Crowlink, a collection of songs sung by Shirley and featuring field recordings recorded by Matthew Shaw. Watch her new video for EP single “My Sailor Boy” which demonstrates the experimental side to the folk veteran.

Is it that time of year already? Shirley Collins is to release “The Christmas Song” on a special signed, flexi-disc Christmas card release on November 13th.

From the makers of The Ballad of Shirley Collins, Southern Journey (Revisited) retraces Alan Lomax’s iconic song collecting trip from the late 1950s – A muso-geographic road trip through the American South by two outsiders…

Shirley Collins returns to the Late Junction airwaves with a 30-minute mixtape of music with no limits. Not to be missed!

Heart’s Ease provides a tantalising glimpse of what may still be to come from Shirley Collins, an album even better than its predecessor, an album as good as folk music gets.

Taken from her forthcoming album Heart’s Ease, Shirley Collins shares “Sweet Greens and Blues” which was written by her first husband, Austin John Marshall, a graphic artist and poet.

On the 24th July 2020, Shirley Collins will release Heart’s Ease, her second album for Domino. The first song to be shared from Heart’s Ease is “Wondrous Love”; its tune comes from an 18th Century English ballad. Watch the video here.

FIRE FILMS announce feature documentary THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY COLLINS about the iconic English singer is now streaming for the first time via Vimeo on Demand, including the first-ever digital release of a host of bonus materials.

One of the most distinctive, novel and deliciously off-kilter events in a very crowded festival calendar, Sea Change Festival announce first names for 2020 including Shirley Collins, Tim Burgess, Field Music & more.

An extra special treat at the end of the week as North Carolina folk duo House and Land pay a visit to the home of Shirley Collins and perform Ca the Yowes for her. Watch the video here.

Shirley Collins’ personal memoir ‘All In The Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song’ which was published by Strange Attractor has won the Penderyn Music Book Prize.

Even when surrounded by the nascent folk-rock of the Albion Band, Shirley’s voice rings out true, true to the tune and true to the song. It still rings out true today and what a most fitting album to present to a new generation to listen to and learn from.

Fifty years on, Shirley Collins returns to London’s Roundhouse… It is hard to imagine anyone who deserves to be on that stage more than Shirley Collins, as the ovations and cheering voices tonight will attest.