NEW RELEASE
Handmade Music
Suffolk Voices from the John Howson Collection
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“An excellent book that puts the singers and musicians centre stage”
Steve Roud
Author of Folk Song in England
“Readers will find themselves both informed and warmed by this praise-song to Suffolk
and its music.”
Taffy Thomas MBE
First Laureate for Storytelling
“A very readable book that is full of interest and will leave the reader wanting more.”
Dr Vic Gammon
Former senior lecturer in Folk and Traditional Music
“Impressively detailed and academically-grounded analysis provides a wealth of contextual information about musical traditions in the area.”
Brian Peters
Musician and researcher
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BIOGRAPHY
Megan Wisdom
Megan Wisdom is an ethnomusicologist, folk singer, and musician born and bred in Suffolk, England. Specialising in oral history with a particular interest in the folk revival, she graduated with First Class Honours from the Folk and Traditional Music BA at Newcastle University in 2022, where she also won the Helen Ferriby Prize For Most Outstanding Final Stage Student.
Megan created The Music Box Archive in 2020, documenting the modern folk scene of East Anglia through oral history field recordings and interviews. The archive is currently hosted…