From the forthcoming album 'Dominion of Spells' released 01/05/26 A song of midlife transformation, inspired by Sharon Blackie’s retelling of a Siberian folktale 'The Woman Who Became a Fox', from her book Wise Women. Written & composed by Emily Portman. Musicians: Emily Portman: voice, banjo, organ; Louis Campbell: acoustic guitar; Ben Nicholls: double bass. Video by Sophie Russell, with fox footage kindly donated by Clare Boyes, Fran Lancaster at Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Gail Cooke, Mike Boursnell, Greg Hitchcock. http://hudsonrecords.ffm.to/dominiono... Produced by Andy Bell

Turn Again by Emily Portman, out now on Hudson Records. From the forthcoming album 'Dominion of Spells' released 01/05/26 https://hudsonrecords.ffm.to/dominion... Produced by Andy Bell 🎥 Kate Griffin. Featuring Mary Hampton (backing vocals) Lucy Revis (cello) Helen Bell (violin, viola) Louis Campbell (guitar) & Neil mcSweeney (bass).

Video by Kate Griffin.

'Seed Stitch' is the new single from BBC Folk Award Winning Singer-Songwriter Emily Portman. It also features on Coracle, Emily's latest album. Video by Laura Spark. 

'Seed Stitch' features on Coracle, Emily's latest album. Video by Laura Spark .

'Darkening Bell' by Emily Portman from 'Coracle'. Released 19th June 2015. http://www.emilyportman.co.uk Film and photography by http://marrywaterson.com Portrait photographs of Emily taken by Elly Lucas.

'Darkening Bell' by Emily Portman from Coracle released 22nd June 2015
Film and photography by marrywaterson.com 
Portrait photographs of Emily taken by Elly Lucas.

'Stick Stock' From The Glamoury. Video by Becca Rose

‘Stick Stock’ by Emily Portman. Featuring Lucy Farrell & Rachel Newton. Video made with an OHP and paper puppets by Becca Rose and Corina Bona. This shadowy tale is a based on the folk tale of "The Juniper Tree".

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Brink of June by Emily Portman & the Coracle Band. Recorded live by Scott Johnston at The Imagined Isle Festival, Birmingham Town Hall on 13th May 2016. Live sound by Andy Bell. The Coracle Band are the stellar cast of musicians that featured on Emily's third studio album 'Coracle' now bought together live for 2016. Joining Emily’s celebrated and longstanding collaborators Lucy Farrell (viola,saw vocals) and Rachel Newton (harp, vocals) are virtuosic string player Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead and BBC Folk Musician of the Year 2015) guitarist M G Boulter (Lucky Strikes) and classical percussionist Toby Kearney (Principle percussionist at The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra). 'Brink of June' composed by Emily Portman © Furrow Records. 

Nightjar by Emily Portman & the Coracle Band. Recorded live by Scott Johnston at The Imagined Isle Festival, Birmingham Town Hall on 13th May 2016. Live sound by Andy Bell. The Coracle Band are the stellar cast of musicians that featured on Emily's third studio album 'Coracle' now bought together live for 2016. Joining Emily’s celebrated and longstanding collaborators Lucy Farrell (viola,saw vocals) and Rachel Newton (harp, vocals) are virtuosic string player Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead and BBC Folk Musician of the Year 2015) guitarist M G Boulter (Lucky Strikes) and classical percussionist Toby Kearney (Principle percussionist at The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra). 'Nightjar' is composed by Emily Portman © Furrow Records.
Emily Portman and the Coracle Band Emily talks about the making of Coracle and the formation of The Coracle Band. Featuring the Songs: 'High Tide' (words Eleanor Rees, Music Emily Portman) 'Nightjar'; (Emily Portman) and 'Brink of June' (Emily Portman). Recorded and engineered live by Andy Bell at The Imagined Isle Festival, Birmingham Town Hall on 13th May 2016 emilyportman.co.uk (c) Furrow Records

The Emily Portman Trio perform `Stick Stock' Live at Cambridge Folk Festival for a video made by Smooth Operations, 2011. 

The Furrow Collective: Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton, Emily Portman, Alasdair Roberts

'Many's The Night's Rest' from WILD HOG IN THE WOODS

Traditional arr. A Roberts, L Farrell, R Newton & E Newton

Produced, engineered and mixed by Andy Bell , Video By Scott Johnston

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‘Game of Cards’ Trad. Arr. E Portman & R. Harbron

Performed live in Emily’s living room & recorded & mixed by Rob Harbron, Autumn 2021.

 

Photos

By Elly Lucas

Coracle Photos feature styling and art work by Karen Le Roy Harris

fRoots photos by Judith Burrows