Angeline Morrison is a British multi-instrumentalist musician, songwriter and academic.

Life

Angeline Morrison was born in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

to a Jamaican mother and a father from the

Outer Hebrides The Outer Hebrides () or Western Isles ( gd, Na h-Eileanan Siar or or ("islands of the strangers"); sco, Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle/Long Island ( gd, An t-Eilean Fada, links=no), is an island chain off the west coast ...

. She attended her first folk club at the age of 17, and became active in the

Midlands The Midlands (also referred to as Central England) are a part of England that broadly correspond to the Kingdom of Mercia of the Early Middle Ages, bordered by Wales, Northern England and Southern England. The Midlands were important in the Ind ...

music scene. In 2002 she gained a PhD from the

University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With students, it is the ...

with a thesis on blankness, silence and racial binarism. That year she moved to

Truro, Cornwall Truro (; kw, Truru) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the 2011 census. People of Truro can ...

. Morrison is half of the duos We Are Muffy (with

Nick Duffy Nicholas John Duffy (born on 24 June 1956) is an English musician, artist, illustrator, and filmmaker. Nick is the elder brother of singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy. They are both co-founders of the folk-pop group The Lilac Time. Nick is a mu ...

The Lilac Time The Lilac Time is a British alternative folk-rock band, originally formed in Herefordshire, England by Stephen Duffy, his brother Nick Duffy and their friend Michael Weston in 1986. The band's name was taken from a line in the Nick Drake son ...

), and Rowan: Morrison (with The Rowan Amber Mill). She also sings with

freakbeat Freakbeat is a loosely defined subgenre of rock and roll music developed mainly by harder-driving British groups during the Swinging London period of the mid-to late 1960s. The genre bridges British Invasion R&B, beat and psychedelia. Etymolo ...

bands The Mighty Sceptres (along with Nick Radford, who has also released music and collaborated with Morrison as Frootful) and The Ambassadors of Sorrow. Morrison's self-released album ''The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs'' was produced by the artist herself, with performances and additional mixing by Nick Duffy. Her album ''The Sorrow Songs'' (2022), produced by

Eliza Carthy Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson. Life and care ...

, tries to reinsert

Black British history Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British citizens of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.Gadsby, Meredith (2006), ''Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival'', University of Missouri Press, pp. 76– ...

into the tradition of

British folk music Throughout the history of the British Isles, the United Kingdom has been a major music producer, drawing inspiration from Church Music. Traditional folk music, using instruments of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Each of the ...

. The album's first song, 'Unknown African Boy (d.1830)' is told from the perspective of the mother of an eight-year-old

West African West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Ma ...

boy, who was washed up on shore on the

Isles of Scilly The Isles of Scilly (; kw, Syllan, ', or ) is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England. One of the islands, St Agnes, is the most southerly point in Britain, being over further south than the most southerly point of the ...

, when the

slave ship Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast ...

''Hope'' was wrecked there. Morrison performed the song on '' Later... with Jools Holland'' in 2022.

Discography

Solo albums

* ''Are You Ready Cat?''. Freestyle records, 2013. * ''The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs''. Self-released, 2022. * ''The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience''. Topic Records, 2022.

Collaborations

* The Ambassadors of Sorrow, ''Easterly''. 2009. * The Ambassadors of Sorrow, ''There Is No Ending''. 2011. * Lack of Afro, ''This time''. La Baleine Distribution, 2011. * The Mighty Sceptres, ''All hail the Mighty Sceptres!''. Ubiquity, 2015. * We Are Muffy, ''The Charcoal Pool''. Tapete Records, 2018.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Angeline Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Plymouth Academics of Falmouth University British people of Jamaican descent Cornish folk musicians Cornish folk singers Living people Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands