The Rolling On Project

We are visiting all the acoustic music sessions and venues in the UK we can find over the next few years (223 as at July 2023) for a book and film celebrating the movement we are all part of and checking out the health of community based folk-roots music making in the UK.

Our own local, the Plough and Fleece Community Pub in Horningsea, Cambridge has echoed with the sound of stories and songs since the mid 1700’s and it’s this unbroken tradition that led the session regulars to write the lyric for ‘Rolling On’ opposite and this song provides the focal point for the project, sharing that and other songs with like minded musicians, music lovers, promoters, venues and sessions whilst soaking up the fabulous live acoustic music on offer in every corner of the UK.

Rolling On has been contributing to the Access Folk research project lead by Faye Hield at Sheffield University. This fascinating 5 year project is looking at ways on of increasing participation and community representation in the world of folk singing.

The first Access Folk Symposium took place on the 24th-25th February 2023 with a wide range of guest speakers (including us), workshops, singarounds and a ceilidh plus guest appearances from the Unthanks, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, George Samson and many others from the folk world.