Your Stories In Song
During 2024 Milton Hide will be organising events, on behalf of Summer Trifle Group, across the Wealden area for people to share their stories, be they personal recollections, tales of local people, family history or legends associated with places. In true folk tradition, Milton Hide will be writing and performing songs inspired by the stories gathered and will be inviting audiences to participate. The aim is to encourage social engagement across the generations, especially for those feeling isolated and to help ensure your stories don’t disappear into the momentary ether of ‘social media’.
‘Your Stories In Song’ is funded by the National Lottery.
Your Stories In Song events coming up:
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A songwriting project by Milton Hide
Milton Hide are singer-songwriters Jim and Josie Tipler.
Their songs are story based and they have been touring the UK with their Audience Book to gather new song inspirations as part of their Jay’s Nest Project. They are now also working on “Your Stories In Song” with the Summer Trifle group, gathering stories in Wealden – a project funded by the National Lottery.
Local legends, characters, landscape features – any story you have to share and that might be immortalised as a story in song is welcome as a suggestion.
Once the songs are written, the duo intend to do a return tour. The hope is that local artists and writers will also collaborate to create new works based on the stories and songs.
Online Audience Book
If you can’t get to one of the gigs you can send your suggestions and stories using the form below to be added to the online audience book
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