BOX OF FROGS released 1 April 2013 See news page.'Buy Now' button on Contact/Buy page.
TONY MORRIS
prefers to be thought of as
a ‘Folk Performer’ or 'Folk Entertainer'
rather than a ‘Folk Singer’.
He performs his own songs and music.
BOOK TONY MORRIS
tonymorris.org.uk@gmail.com
WHAT YOU GET:
Entertainment. Story Songs.History. Humour. Music on unusual Instruments. A Class Act.
Tony's songs are stories with a keen sense of reality, apart from the surreal ones!
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, and occasionally at The Black Swan Folk Club, York and The Last Inn First Out, Whitby.
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'.
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, and occasionally at The Black Swan Folk Club, York and The Last Inn First Out, Whitby.
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'.
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.
