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Louis Spence
Authentic and absolutely original. Good to watch.
Mark Hadlett Great to see this song of Tony's captured on video, its always been a favourite!
Steve Dagleish Brilliant as ever!
Kevin Hall This wonderful man is a one off. Box of Frogs!!
Graham Brotton The lad's a flippin' genius.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvlVz605Li0&feature=share&list=PLpE63CNkK9b7FEPfrjFRfS5XfZAc_ttmI
Louis Spence
Authentic and absolutely original. Good to watch.
Mark Hadlett Great to see this song of Tony's captured on video, its always been a favourite!
Steve Dagleish Brilliant as ever!
Kevin Hall This wonderful man is a one off. Box of Frogs!!
Graham Brotton The lad's a flippin' genius.....
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SEEKING VENUES AND PROMOTERS - NEW SHOW/PERFORMANCE
Tony was performing at a Northern Voices Mining Heritage Project in Newcastle in September 2013 and realised that his songs at that event were the only ones about mining that was not Coal Mining. This gave him the idea to put together a whole show/performance about mining that was NOT COAL.
This he has now done under the provisional title of “Jumper, Pricker, Powder – Alum, Ironstone, Lead”. There are 22 songs but Tony is in the process of cutting the number down to more manageable proportions to take into account the craic between songs. The Alum and Ironstone songs principally reference North Yorkshire while the Lead Mining songs are drawn from mining in Weardale. They are mainly first person and character songs sung unaccompanied with a strong traditional feel though one or two are accompanied in bardic style on harp.
Tony was performing at a Northern Voices Mining Heritage Project in Newcastle in September 2013 and realised that his songs at that event were the only ones about mining that was not Coal Mining. This gave him the idea to put together a whole show/performance about mining that was NOT COAL.
This he has now done under the provisional title of “Jumper, Pricker, Powder – Alum, Ironstone, Lead”. There are 22 songs but Tony is in the process of cutting the number down to more manageable proportions to take into account the craic between songs. The Alum and Ironstone songs principally reference North Yorkshire while the Lead Mining songs are drawn from mining in Weardale. They are mainly first person and character songs sung unaccompanied with a strong traditional feel though one or two are accompanied in bardic style on harp.
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TONY MORRIS prefers to be thought of as a ‘Folk Performer’ or 'Folk Entertainer'
rather than a ‘Folk Singer’.
He is a vocalist who performs his own brand of vernacular songs and music.
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WHAT YOU GET:
Entertainment. Story Songs.History. Humour.
Oct 3, 2013
"The nearest you will get to a psychedelic experience can be had watching Tony at work -- totally original and unique."(Ian Swinburne)
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Music on unusual Instruments.
A Class Act.
Bob Fischer when introducing one of Tony's tracks on BBC Radio Tees recently referred to him as, "The brilliant Tony Morris" and " A charmingly eccentric fellow".
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Some of THE SONGS OF TONY MORRIS can be listened to on
THE SONGS OF TONY MORRIS page.
Songs are constantly added so please keep coming back.
Tony Morris was brought up listening to classical music and the popular music of the 1940s and ‘50s.
He did his fair share of bar room and pub singing in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. Marriages and family intervened so he missed ‘The Folk Revival’.
From the ‘80s to the ‘90s he gained a great deal of experience in Amateur Theatre.
He did not appear on the Folk Club scene until the mid ‘90s when, as a poet and improvising musician he was a regular at the Black Swan Folk Club in York.
In 2002 he made a career change to work full-time in the Arts. In 2003 he recorded his first CD in the studio of Alistair Russell, late of the Battlefield Band, appropriately called ‘Changing Tracks’.
In 2005 Tony Morris wrote the songs for his CD ‘Trappy Lad’ which he recorded in the Cube Media Studios in York.
From this time he continued to write in what he would regard as ‘lyrics’ rather than ‘poems’ (BUT for more on this please click the heading, ‘Theory’).
In December 2011, Tony Morris went into the Studio of Ken Hall at Sleights, near Whitby in North Yorkshire to record 20 of his unaccompanied songs. He has now released these as 4 EPCDs which can be purchased directly from this website,Routenote direct,Amazon and iTunes. Some of the songs can also be heard here.
A word about 'Packaging': the only artwork is that burned on to the face of the CD in monotone on gold by use of the Lightscribe process. The lyrics are crystal clear, so there has been no need for a printed booklet. Each CD is presented in a clear plastic wallet/envelope so the packaging is kept to the minimum and the price is kept down.
These are also available directly from Tony Morris at his regular attendances at Whitby Folk Club, Whitby, The White Hart, Mickleby, Saltburn Folk Club at the Marine, The Last Inn First Out, Whitby, Guisborough Folk at the Rugby Club and occasionally at The Black Swan Folk Club, York .
In 2012 he also recorded and released an album of music on Amerynd and Slovakian flutes,
'Flute Salad'.
A CD of Surreal Folk was released on 1 April 2013, 'BOX OF FROGS' another one is anticipated.
Bob Fischer and others have compared this side of Tony Morris's work to that of the late Ivor Cutler.
Two tracks, 'Worse than Rough' and 'No Room in the Bins', are now up on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stream
A review from Folk Roundabout of 'The Songs of Tony Morris,1,2,3,4'
can be found here on the News Page.
He did his fair share of bar room and pub singing in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. Marriages and family intervened so he missed ‘The Folk Revival’.
From the ‘80s to the ‘90s he gained a great deal of experience in Amateur Theatre.
He did not appear on the Folk Club scene until the mid ‘90s when, as a poet and improvising musician he was a regular at the Black Swan Folk Club in York.
In 2002 he made a career change to work full-time in the Arts. In 2003 he recorded his first CD in the studio of Alistair Russell, late of the Battlefield Band, appropriately called ‘Changing Tracks’.
In 2005 Tony Morris wrote the songs for his CD ‘Trappy Lad’ which he recorded in the Cube Media Studios in York.
From this time he continued to write in what he would regard as ‘lyrics’ rather than ‘poems’ (BUT for more on this please click the heading, ‘Theory’).
In December 2011, Tony Morris went into the Studio of Ken Hall at Sleights, near Whitby in North Yorkshire to record 20 of his unaccompanied songs. He has now released these as 4 EPCDs which can be purchased directly from this website,Routenote direct,Amazon and iTunes. Some of the songs can also be heard here.
A word about 'Packaging': the only artwork is that burned on to the face of the CD in monotone on gold by use of the Lightscribe process. The lyrics are crystal clear, so there has been no need for a printed booklet. Each CD is presented in a clear plastic wallet/envelope so the packaging is kept to the minimum and the price is kept down.
These are also available directly from Tony Morris at his regular attendances at Whitby Folk Club, Whitby, The White Hart, Mickleby, Saltburn Folk Club at the Marine, The Last Inn First Out, Whitby, Guisborough Folk at the Rugby Club and occasionally at The Black Swan Folk Club, York .
In 2012 he also recorded and released an album of music on Amerynd and Slovakian flutes,
'Flute Salad'.
A CD of Surreal Folk was released on 1 April 2013, 'BOX OF FROGS' another one is anticipated.
Bob Fischer and others have compared this side of Tony Morris's work to that of the late Ivor Cutler.
Two tracks, 'Worse than Rough' and 'No Room in the Bins', are now up on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stream
A review from Folk Roundabout of 'The Songs of Tony Morris,1,2,3,4'
can be found here on the News Page.
Tracks from these CDs have been played regularly by Bob Fischer on BBC Radio Tees.
See The Songs Of Tony Morris page on this website.
