Jennifer Reid

I dare you !!!!

Frank O’Gorman obituary Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society

RIP Frank O'Gorman. He was a lovely man and a brilliant historian, and I was very fortunate that he was my PhD supervisor. I will miss him.
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Isn’t that the bloody coolest album cover ever of all time ✨ @jenniferballads.bsky.social Ballad of the Gatekeeper 🌿

Clogs, salon talons and a Tupac t-shirt. Jennifer Reid is a stunner @jenniferballads.bsky.social

The album cover for Jennifer Reid’s ‘the ballad of the gatekeeper’ on vinyl, showing an oil painting of her (by the artist Ian Bruce) with the album title in neon letters over the top, with the sleeve notes laid on top saying ‘folk is dead, long live folk’

I got the new album from @jenniferballads.bsky.social in the post and a line in the sleeve notes shows how she and I are singing from the same hymn sheet, her for folk, me for church “I believe you should try to get everywhere like water, make the tradition undeniable, support people to participate”

A copy of Jennifer Reid's LP freshly arrived by post

Yay!

It's here 🤩

Haven't had chance to play it yet but worth every penny for the artwork alone.

Proud to call Jenn a friend yet even I did not see something of such import coming. As a wordsmith I know the term 'unique' is almost always mis-used but in this case, it is fully justified. Listen, learn and be moved.

The Ballad of the Gatekeeper Jennifer Reid · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

Here it is! THE NEW ALBUM IS OUT! open.spotify.com/album/3RlvqL...

On a glorious Friday in Manchester, @jenniferballads.bsky.social is in full song.

Forget the kings and queens and all that guff, Jennifer Reid keeps our real history alive.

This will be a great project - traditional Lancashire folk, broadsides, radical history.

We published Jenn, yonks ago. If you’re not familiar with her work we urge you to become so…

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-ballad...

The ever brilliant @jenniferballads.bsky.social is crowdfunding her new album. If you can afford to make a donation please do.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-ballad...

Hehehe !!!

APRIL IN NEW ZEALAND

SPRING SUMMER UK 2025

Next ones !!!

New release on Sonido P !!! Just been pre released and they’ll be on general sale soon sonidopolifonico.bandcamp.com

It’s worth tracking down a copy of Sam Fitton’s poem ‘Shuttle-Kissin’ too! @jenniferballads.bsky.social performs this number to great effect.

New release on Sonido P !!! Just been pre released and they’ll be on general sale soon sonidopolifonico.bandcamp.com

Next ones !!!

I wondered what was up with it !!!

Coming up !!

Some dates for your diary !

In tune: The Bury New Loom In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer Jennifer Reid introduces a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services - that is ...

🗃️ #C19th
In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer @jenniferballads.bsky.social introduces and sings a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/03/i...

A huge welcome to Lancashire dialect and broadside ballad singer (and all round good thing) @jenniferballads.bsky.social who has made it here from The Other Place #C19th 🗃️