A songwriting project by Milton Hide

During 2024 Milton Hide  organised 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 wrote and performed songs inspired by the stories gathered and invited audiences to participate. The aim was 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’ was funded by the National Lottery.

You can view the website created to display all of the gathered stories here: YourStoriesInSong.co.uk

As a continuation of this project, Milton Hide aim to record an album of all of the songs and possibly an accompanying lyric and story book. This will be called The Jays Nest.