Mike Baldwin

Join me & director Natacha Horn this Sunday November 9th at 6PM at BFI for the premiere of my documentary, at the closing night of @docnrollfilms.bsky.social.
There will also be a Q&A hosted by Nikki Bedi, and you can get your tickets at the link in my bio or on the BFI website! See you there.

Mural by JDL Street Art in Roubaix, Lille, France, depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face with both hands in a gesture of shame. The figure is painted in shades of grey with teal accents on the torch and crown, set against a muted background with a golden halo-like circle. The artwork spans the side of a tall brick building, contrasting modern street art with historic European architecture in the surrounding cityscape.

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

Holy shit, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell corrected the orange felon’s lies on live television without hesitation. This is how you do it.

Here's Ireland's attempt to recruit researchers from abroad.

Improved funding opportunities for researchers already here doesn't seem to have occurred to them...

www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

Front covers of the 13 books, including Cinderella, Princess and the Pea, and sleeping beauty. Winter‘s co-artist in the series was Robert Lumley who illustrated another 13 books, not shown here

The fairy tales illustrated by artist Eric Winter (all first published between 1964 - 1972)

A screen shot of the cover of a musical score. The text reads: Three Sonatas for the Harp, with Scots Airs and Reels for the Adagios & Rondos, by Madame Dussek. There is more text, but much of it is too faded and flowery to be readable by me. There are ornate drawings top and bottom. They are mostly flowers and foliage, but the top one also includes a dove, a garden hoe, and a shepherd’s crook. The bottom drawing includes a small harp and pages of music manuscript.

Fun new @chaski85.bsky.social project! We’re working on a flute/lever harp transcription of Madame Dussek’s Cm harp sonata. Totally works & is So Much Fun!

It’s for a concert that’s especially dear to our hearts. Once the date is finalized I won’t stop talking about it.😎

Wise. As more harps have arrived I’ve had to part with a sofa and an armchair.

Lots of interesting old instruments, most awaiting restoration.

Sign the Petition Save the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts!

Please sign to support the future training of musical instrument makers chng.it/zgM4brHjcw

Only if he was well embalmed.

Hi Peter, you should be able to order them via your normal book store. Alternatively, they’re all available from Amazon. Best wishes, Mike

My new book, Béara: Rescued Folklore - 4th in the Rescued Folklore series - is available from 31 March 2025. More here: www.mike-baldwin.net/folklore

Really glad I asked for extra-long legs for my Pilgrim Skylark harp. So much easier to play standing up with a dodgy back.

Car park with a view. #Schull #Cork

The hills of West Cork are as stunning in a late-night rainstorm as on a sunny day.

Great to see one of Craxton's shepherds here. One of last year's highlights was the Craxton exhibition at Pallant House, to which we lent two items from Britten and Pears' collection (more details on the Pallant House blog at pallant.org.uk/perspectives...).

Dunbeacon stone circle and nearby Coolcoulaghta standing stones near Durrus, West Cork, Ireland. #standingstonesunday

Selfie of a smiling woman holding a shiny book entitled Between Two Rivers. The bottom half of the book cover is slightly obscured by her hand. She wears a dark grey sweatshirt

advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹

This is such a wonderful book, I loved reading it, and you can soon hear @moudhy.bsky.social on an upcoming episode of You’re Dead To Me 👇📚😁

A poster with a man sitting in darkness with a single bulb lighting him. The words 'Darkness & Light' bold at the top as a title.

This autumn/winter I'm going to be doing some solo ghost story shows. Just me, a single light and the darkness - a celebration of 10 years of @tbodal.bsky.social. I want to come to bookshops, libraries, chapels, halls, wherever. If that's your venue or space, please drop me a line and let's chat? 👻

I stand by this.

Bonce is an underused word.

All I want is a manor in the Scottish countryside, the ominous rumble of thunder in the distance, an Agatha Christie novel, a kettle on the stove, a vintage armchair, an emotional support owl, and a basket of freshly-baked pastries.

Donate to Support ‘Instrumental,’ a new Podcast on musical instruments, organized by Mike Baldwin Hi, My name is Dr Mike Baldwin and I am an organologist. I am… Mike Baldwin needs your support for Support ‘Instrumental,’ a new Podcast on musical instruments

Instrumental podcast fundraiser 71% reached #podcast #musicalinstruments #musicology #organology #ethnomusicology #orchestra #musicalinstrumentmakers #history #culturalhistory

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Thomas Hardy building lost in Dorchester fire - BBC News The building, which was "important" in the novelist's history, has been gutted by fire and fallen.

40 South Street, Dorchester, a listed building where Thomas Hardy apprenticed as an architect, has been lost to fire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An ornate image showing people from all walks of life being danced to their graves by skeletons.

"The Dance of Death," German oil painting, 18th century. It depicts living people from all walks of life encountering skeletal figures who force them to engage in a deathly dance.

I talk about funerary customs from "ye olden days" on R4's BEST MEDICINE. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Midnight over Glanmore Lake Tara Viscardi, Robert Harvey · Song · 2024

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #ClassicalLive

Tara Viscardi & Tara Viscardi:
🎵 Midnight over Glanmore Lake

#BBCRadio3 #TaraViscardi
▶️ Track on #Spotify:

Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.

1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.

Order now in time for Christmas. My favourite story? On 27 November 1888 the Bull Rock lighthouse was destroyed in a storm with 5 men inside. Family and friends waked the men assuming all died. Spoilers: everyone survived. Rescue took weeks. #Folklore #Books #Irishbooks #Irishfolklore #christmasgift

Béara: Rescued Folklore. Out now. #newbooks #folklore #Ireland