T.E. Yates

From darkness into light ☀️🎶

Rehearsing "Michael O’Brien", the final movement of my "Manchester Martyrs Medley".

Mandolin (me), fiddle (Joe Mansfield), and guitar (Kai Carter) shifting from the darker tones of E minor into the warmth of G major — closing the medley on a more hopeful note 🎻☘️

Rehearsing "Michael Larkin", the middle movement of my three-part "Manchester Martyrs Medley"

Mandolin (me), fiddle (Joe Mansfield) and guitar (Kai Carter) exploring the darker tones of this Irish-inspired piece 🎻🇮🇪🎶

"Eternal Slumber" — the chorus takes flight... 🌙🎻

A short clip from the chorus of my new song "Eternal Slumber" 🎵

Rehearsed with mandolin (me), acoustic guitar (Kai Carter) and strings (Joe Mansfield).

A moment where rest becomes renewal. A glimpse into our recent rehearsal

New song taking shape... 🌙

Rehearsing "Eternal Slumber" 🎵

Mandolin (me), acoustic guitar (Kai Carter), and strings (Joe Mansfield) exploring the textures of the intro and first verse.
Can’t wait to share the finished piece with you soon!

From the sewers to the swing 🚇🎻

Part 2 of "The Jolly Tosher" brings a new feel — same tune, different flavour. Rehearsed here with Kai Carter (guitar), Joe Mansfield (fiddle) and yours truly (mandolin) all weaving together

Victorian sewers meet Irish swing 🚇🍀

Here’s a clip from an instrumental section of Part 1 of "The Jolly Tosher "— a song I wrote, inspired by Victorian sewer hunters in London 🚇💡

This melody carries a touch of Irish flavour, played on mandolin, guitar, & fiddle 🎶 With Kai Carter and Joe Mansfield

Tradition reimagined 🌿🎶

Our version of "Down in the Willow Garden" brings banjo, fiddle, and guitar together — with a lyrical twist on the old ballad’s dark story. Final few verses here.

Featuring banjo (Kai Carter), fiddle (Joe Mansfield), and guitar (me)

Behind the scenes of our rehearsal for "River Revived" 🎶🌊

An acoustic blend of guitar, clarinet, and strings, sharing the story of restoring rivers and the wild corridors they create. With Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter

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"Dappled light dashes through dense leaves. Hinged trees bow as though in reverence" 🌿✨

Here’s a glimpse of our rehearsal for "River Revived" — a new song I wrote about river restoration, performed with acoustic guitar, clarinet, and strings 🎶 With Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter

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Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter have worked some magic on strings and clarinet here. 🪄✨ This is taken from the middle of the chorus, through to the end of that section, from a new song I wrote, "I Was Not Dwelling in Darkness". Captured during our rehearsal on Friday 26th September

Before the recording and the live performances, there’s the rehearsal — and it sounds like this... 💫

Here's the intro to a new song I wrote, "I Was Not Dwelling in Darkness" - with a beautiful clarinet and strings arrangement that Kai and Joe have worked on. I was blown away with how they've transformed this song!

Just a little behind-the-scenes from our most recent rehearsal 🎶

Before going into the studio to record some new music in a couple of weeks, I've been preparing the new material with Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter. 🎻🎸✨

Another clip from a guitar one here. Back into good ol' standard tuning and the key of C for one more brand new song. This one's called "I Was Not Dwelling in Darkness". Nice chilled one for your relaxing Sunday!

Rehearsed for the first time with Kai Carter and Joe Mansfield on Friday 19th

It's about the Derby lockout - an important event in the history of British trade unionism - and it's called "Hands That Weave the Silk". Here's the ending, wonderfully embellished by Kai's gloom stick

Hope your Thursday has been going well! Here's another new song snippet, rehearsed for the first time with Kai Carter and Joe Mansfield on Friday 19th

Rehearsed together with Kai Carter and Joe Mansfield for the first time on Friday 19th. My first song in BEBEBE tuning. Little sneak peak at this new tune here...

I sing the lyrics "meandering foraging beavers" and "woody debris" in this brand new song. Why? It's called "River Revived" - and is about river restoration. Our rivers here in Blighty could definitely do with some of this!

Botched somewhat on my part - but some pleasant music somehow emerges, despite not sounding quite as originally intended! Expertly carried through by Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter

Fragment from a three part instrumental medley I wrote called the "Manchester Martyrs Medley". This from the middle of the three tunes, titled "Michael Larkin". Rehearsed for the first time on Friday

Snippet from another new song/tune I wrote, rehearsed with Kai Carter and Joe Mansfield for the first time on Friday. This is a mandolin one called "The Jolly Tosher".

"The jolly what?", I hear you ask... Toshers were sewer hunters in London during the Victorian era. This song is about them!

Another brand new song I wrote, "Eternal Slumber", rehearsed with Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter for the first time on Friday 19th. This one on mandolin. Little clip here!

Rehearsed some brand new songs together with Joe Mansfield and Kai Carter for the first time on Friday 19th. Here's a little clip from the first of this bunch - an arrangement (with reimagined lyrics) I came up with for old-time tune "Down in the Willow Garden".

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