Really Beautiful Company

A unique look at heritage singers based on research for a lottery-funded project to make traditional music available to the general public.


Do we all have singing ancestors? In the days before mass media, the only music that most people would have heard would have been that made by themselves, their friends or their family. What do we know of these singers and musicians? What songs have people sung in Gloucestershire to cheer themselves up on cold winter nights? When there was no television ...