Recorded at Greengage Studio and West End Road Studios;
Produced by Stu Hanna;
Photography by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Lucy Ward: vocals, concertina, guitar, percussion;
Stu Hanna: banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, backing vocals;
Sam Pegg: bass;
Belinda O’Hooley: piano, backing vocals;
Heidi Tidow, Debbie Hanna: backing vocals

Tracks

1. The Fairy Boy (3.37)
2. Alice in the Bacon Box (4.00)
3. Maids When You’re Young (Roud 210) (3.27)
4. Death (Rock Me to Sleep) (3.33)
5. The Unfortunate Lass (Roud 2; Laws Q26) (4.07)
6. Julia (4.58)
7. The Two Sisters (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (4.02)
8. Adelphi (4.22)
9. F for Love (4.21)
10. A Stitch in Time (4.14)
11. Bricks and Love (4.21)

Track 1 Samuel Lover, ca. 1840;
Tracks 2, 6, 8-9 Lucy Ward;
Tracks 3, 5, 7 trad. arr. Lucy Ward;
Track 4 words Anne Boleyn, music Lucy Ward;
Track 10 Mike Waterson;
Track 11 Lucy Ward, chorus taken from Eriskay Love lilt

Video

Lucy Ward sings A Stitch in Time at The Winding Wheel, Chesterfield in October 2009:

Produced by Stu Hanna;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Lucy Ward: vocals, concertina, guitar, percussion;
Stu Hanna: banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, backing vocals;
Debbie Hanna: backing vocals

Tracks

1. For the Dead Men (4.25)
2. Maids When You’re Young (Remix) (Roud 210) (3.28)

Track 1 Lucy Ward;
Track 2 trad. arr. Lucy Ward

Video

Musicians

Doug Eunson: melodeon, hurdy-gurdy, vocals;
Sarah Matthews: fiddle, viola, vocals;
Oli Matthews: saxophone, clarinet, melodeon, cajun, vocals;
Lucy Ward: vocals, concertina, guitar, percussion

Tracks

1. Cotton Mills of Cromford (4.07)
2. The Bone Lace Weaver (4.13)
3. When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart (4.36)
4. King of Rome (4.25)

Track 1 trad.;
Track 2 Leonard Wheatcroft, Roy Harris;
Track 3 Alison Krauss;
Track 4 Dave Sudbury

Produced by Stu Hanna;
Photography and artwork by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Lucy Ward: vocals, guitar, concertina;
Stu Hanna: guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, B3 organ, backing vocals;
Joy Gravestock: violin;
Izzi Cooper: cello;
Sebastian Hale Smith: double bass;
Steve MacLachlan: drums;
Anna Esslemont Watson: violin [9];
Sam Pegg: bass guitar;
Debbie Hanna: backing vocals

Tracks

1. I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak (4.04)
2. Honey (3.41)
3. The Last Pirouette (3.56)
4. Icarus (5.15)
5. Velvet Sky (4.13)
6. Rites of Man (5.09)
7. The Consequence (2.16)
8. Lord I Don’t Want to Die in the Storm (4.09)
9. For the Dead Men (4.25)
10. Marching Through the Green Grass (Roud 1302) (2.51)
11. Ink (4.11)
12. Shellback (4.38)

All songs written by Lucy Ward except
Tracks 2, 5 words Lucy Ward, music Lucy Ward, Stu Hanna;
Track 8 words trad., music Lucy Ward, Stu Hanna;
Track 10 trad. arr. Lucy Ward, Stu Hanna;

Promo Video

Lucy Ward sings Icarus (hers, not Anne Lister’s song):

Lucy Ward sings Marching Through the Green Grass:

Produced by Stu Hanna;
Engineered by Stu Hanna and Stephen MacLachlan;
Photography and artwork by Elly Lucas;
Photoshoot styling by Elly Lucas and Betty Beetroot

Musicians

Lucy Ward: vocals, guitars, harmonium, concertina, percussion, banjo;
Stu Hanna: guitars, piano, mellotron, B3 organs, violin, backing vocals;
Anna Esslemont: violin;
Stephen MacLachlan: drums;
Sam Pegg: bass guitar;
Debbie Hanna: backing vocals;
Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band [5]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Summers That We Made (4.00)
2. Ode to Whittaker Brown (4.52)
3. Creatures and Demons (3.29)
4. Lord Randall (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814) (4.32)
5. Lion (4.10)

Side 2

6. Song for Lola (4.39)
7. Daniel and the Mermaid (3.45)
8. Connie and Bud (4.54)
9. Return to Earth (2.55)

All songs written by Lucy Ward except
Track 4 trad. arr Lucy Ward;
Track 5 Lucy Ward ft. Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

Video

Lucy Ward sings Return to Earth:

Lucy Ward sings Daniel and the Mermaid at The Song Loft, Stony Stratford:

Recorded and produced by Doug Eunson at Hall Farm Studios;
Photography and artwork by Betty Beetroot Productions

Musicians

Doug Eunson: vocals, melodeon, hurdy-gurdy;
Sarah Matthews: vocals, fiddle, viola;
Oli Matthews: vocals, soprano saxophone, clarinet, cajun, alto G whistle;
Lucy Ward: vocals, guitar, harmonium

Tracks

1. Crane Driver (2.39)
2. Taoist Tale / Blew Bell Hornpipe (5.02)
3. Jacob’s Well (Roud 17703) (3.29)
4. Sprig of Thyme (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180) / Playing for Thyme (4.09)
5. Yonder Old Oak (Roud 371) (3.51)
6. Damped in His Groove (4.43)
7. Nowhere Man / Cotillion (4.01)
8. Willie’s Lady (Roud 220; Child 6; G/D 2:346) (5.41)
9. Heather Down the Moor (Roud 375; G/D 5:962; Henry H177) (3.30)
10. Squire of Tamworth (Roud 141; Laws N20; G/D 1:166; Henry H524) (4.23)
11. Gower Wassail (Roud 209) (3.13)
12. Normandy Orchards (6.02)

All tracks trad. except
Track 1 Julie Matthews;
Track 2a Tucker Zimmerman;
Track 4b Doug Eunson;
Track 6 Geoff Convery;
Track 7a John Lennon, Paul McCartney;
Track 12 Keith Marsden

Produced by Stu Hanna and Stephen MacLachlan;
Artwork by Hannah Dansie;
Design by Rob Hunter

Musicians

Lucy Ward: vocals, guitar, concertina, harmonium, singing bowl;
Helga Ragnasdóttir: keyboard, backing vocals;
Anna Esslemont: violin, backing vocals;
Sam Pegg: electric bass, double bass;
Claire Bostock: cello;
Stephen MacLachlan: piano, percussion;
Stu Hanna: guitar, keyboard

Tracks

1. Silver Morning (4.41)
2. Cold Caller (4.43)
3. Sunshine Child (4.05)
4. Bill Norrie (Roud 53; Child 83; G/D 2:214) (6.41)
5. Maria Martin (Roud 215) (4.19)
6. Fair and Tender Ladies (Roud 451) (3.55)
7. Mari Fach (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (3.55)
8. Lazy Day (4.37)
9. The Sweetest Flowers (2.32)

All songs written by Lucy Ward except
Tracks 4-6 trad. arr Lucy Ward;
Track 7 words Lucy Ward, tune trad.

An original folk-ballet score choreographed by Deborah Norris, based on the traditional folk story “the two princesses”

Produced by Stu Hanna and Stephen MacLachlan;
Artwork by Hannah Dansie;
Design by Rob Hunter

Musicians

Lucy Ward: vocals, concertina;
Helga Ragnasdóttir: guitar, piano, recorders, harmonium, backing vocals;
Anna Esslemont: violin, backing vocals;
Stephen MacLachlan: guitar, drums, percussion, dulcimer, bass, sonic landscapes;
Claire Bostock: cello;
Deborah Norris: glockenspiel

Tracks

1. A Fated Story (A Fated Story / The Curious Child / The Sweet Primeroses / The Thorn) (7.05)
2. Anne and the Henwife (The Mermaid) (4.03)
3. Mayhem (4.02)
4. The New Flowers (Wild Mountain Thyme / Go / Spencer the Rover) (5.48)
5. One Condition (2.42)
6. The Prince’s Lullaby (5.30)
7. Under Elva Hill (Queen of the May / Under Elva Hill / Du’s Bun Lang Awa an A’m Tocht Lang ta See Dee) (3.04)
8. First Light (Wild Mountain Thyme) (3.07)
9. The Second Moon (The Banks of the Sweet Primeroses) (1.28)
10. Ethereal Child (4.19)
11. The Magic Fruit (0.26)
12. The Prince’s Jig (based on The Prince’s Lullaby) (3.00)
13. A Force That Never Fades (A Fated Story—continued) (1.26)

Tracks 1a, 4b, 13 Lucy Ward, Helga Ragnasdóttir, lyrics Lucy Ward;
Tracks 1bd, 7b, 9, 12 Anna Esslemont;
Track 1c trad. arr. Helga Ragnasdóttir, Anna Esslemont;
Tracks 2, 4ac, 8, 10 trad. arr. Helga Ragnasdóttir, Lucy Ward, lyrics Lucy Ward;
Tracks 3, 5-6 Lucy Ward, Helga Ragnasdóttir, Anna Esslemont, Stephen MacLachlan;
Tracks 7ac trad. arr. Anna Esslemont;
Tracks 11 trad. arr. Lucy Ward, Anna Esslemont, lyrics Lucy Ward;

Recorded and produced by Steve MacLachlan and Wilde Bloom at Leifshús Art Farm and Pakkhúsið;
Photography by Steve MacLachlan and Wilde Bloom;
Artwork and design by Betty Beetroot Productions

Folk Radio review by Mike Davies

Musicians

Andy Townes: vocals, guitars;
Lucy Ward: vocals, sansula;
Svavar Knùtur: vocals, guitars, keyboards, synthesisers;
Ewan McCosham: bass;
Sarah Matthews: violin, viola;
Steve MacLachlan: drums, synthesisers

Tracks

1. Astronaut (3.34)
2. Paper Plane (3.36)
3. Work It Out (3.36)
4. Seasons (3.56)
5. Isn’t It Funny (3.12)
6. Everything (4.24)
7. Aurora (3.27)
8. Your Love Was Death to Me (2.39)
9. Medusa (3.56)
10. Unanswered (4.11)
11. Orgar Brim (2.50)

All songs written by Lucy Ward, Svavar Knútur and Andrew M.L. Brown except
Track 4 Andrew M.L. Brown;
Track 8 Svavar Knútur