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Country Jack-of-all-trades is the working title for the new show combining traditional song and archive film. Following the highly acclaimed collaboration between Umber Music and the South West Film and Television Archive in producing the unique This Farming Life show, this new collaboration will feature song and film covering a wide range of rural craft skills: the last pedal-powered travelling tinker, Honiton lace-making, osier growing and basket-making - and many more. Development of the show is still in its early stages and, as with TFL, the show will be evolved over time, through interaction of the media and performers, rather than being 'written', but enquiries are already coming in, and organisations which experienced the unique combination of artforms in TFL are the first in the queue!

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News update - August 2007
WEST COUNTRY NIGHT OUT A new CD ~ by popular demand. With Tom & Barbara's CDs - Where Umber Flows, Prevailing Winds and Tide of Change all but sold out, and with constant requests from audiences at This Farming Life shows for recordings of The Farmer's Boy and Widdecombe Fair, a new CD is being released on August 25th. Called WEST COUNTRY NIGHT OUT, it borrows some tracks from each of the previous CDs, but also contains 9 previously unreleased tracks and is a bargain at only £10.00 (plus £1.00 P&P if you want to order it). Click HERE for more details.
COUNTRY JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES Country Jack-of-all-trades is the working title for the new show combining traditional song and archive film. Following the highly acclaimed collaboration between Umber Music and the South West Film and Television Archive in producing the unique This Farming Life show, this new collaboration will feature song and film covering a wide range of rural craft skills: the last pedal-powered travelling tinker, Honiton lace-making, osier growing and basket-making - and many more. Development of the show is still in its early stages and, as with TFL, the show will be evolved over time, through interaction of the media and performers, rather than being 'written', but enquiries are already coming in, and organisations which experienced the unique combination of artforms in TFL are the first in the queue!
BACK INTO THE STUDIO In February 2008, we'll be back in the Wild Goose studio laying our fourth CD (if you don't count West Country Night Out). This time there's a definite bias towards matters nautical ~ both songs from the sea and songs related to the sea. Not even a working title as yet - all ideas welcome!