Welcome to my songsite

Songwriting and playing at and/or running sessions, gigs, festivals, clubs and special projects – if you have nothing better to do, you can find out more about my muisical life by following the website links below or checking out the photo gallery of some of the happy memories.

For many years my musical home was the Bluebell Inn in Hempstead, in the rural north of Essex, without doubt one of the finest pubs in the world untill Rod and Marian finally retired in 2015 – from 2009 to 2019 my new haunt was the incomparable Plough and Fleece in our adopted village of Horningsea in Cambridge, now a community pub owned and run by the punters. Weekly acoustic session every Thursday from around 8.30 – everyone welcome!

For the next 5 years or so I will taking the ‘Rolling On’ project on the road, visiting sessions and clubs throughout the UK, sharing the award wining Rolling On song on the way and reporting back on the health of community based folk-roots music. Check out the Rolling On page for more details. Meanwhile, the focus of this website is on songwriting in its many forms as part of the folk-roots tradition.

The mp3’s and lyric pdf’s are provided here for the many people that ask for them and they are covered by a Creative Commons licence for use by anyone in any non-commercial setting. For permission to use any material for commercial purposes, email me at Cluzion Music cluzionmusic@live.co.uk Now, back to those other website links….


Rolling On

Our national touring project looking at the health of sessions and singarounds. As at December 2020 we have visited almost 100 different pubs, clubs and community centres and are now beginning work on the book and film. Our main focus is on collecting your stories so pop along to the website and find out how you can get involved

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Access Folk

I’m a board member on Fay Hield’s 5 year research project on English Folk Song – The Access Folk Project at Sheffield University. Check out the fabulous work to date below – and get involved!

Access Folk

Milkmaid Song Writing Competition and Circle

Chris, Holly and I run the annual somgwriting competition at the Milkmaid Folk Club. Closing date this year is coming up  on the29th Feb  so get your entries in now. We laso hold a sog writers circle every fourth week on the month – you are always welcome to join us.

The Song Writers Club

Greenstage

Our Low impact, dismountable stage and workshop structures originally made for the National Trust at Hatfield Forest in 2001 and oodles of festivals and community events since then – loads more details on the Greenstage website.

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Doghouse Collective

Specialising in rough barn dancing and eclectic versions of traditional and contemporary tunes and songs featuring Richard Twinn (harp, mandolin, guitar, voice), Tony Phillips (guitar, mandola, voice),Tony Mace (whisltes, flute), Clare Edwardson (fiddle), Marie Mace (bodhran), Andrew Martin (cahon, percussion) and Tony Frazer (caller)

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Bury Folk Festival

Our one day folk extravaganza in Bury St Edmunds – 2024 sees our 10th aniversary. Get your tickets for the 29th June 2024 here…..

Bury Folk Festival

Cluzion Music

Set up by Keith Winter and Tony Phillips in 2003, this is our promoters platform for the Cluzion Club, one off Gigs, Festivals and community music projects. You can also find out about our partnerships with the Strummers Club and Menelik Education for our Ubuntu World Music nights.

Cluzion Music

Tariq Muhammed and the Africelt Connection

Kora led world music featuring Tom Crossley (Kora, Marimba, percussion,vocals) Tony Phillips (Mandola/Mandcello), Scuz Brophy (guitars), Fara Affifi (Violin/Viola), David Kuratsu (Bass)

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