Really Beautiful Company

A unique look at heritage singers and our singing ancestors. What do we know of these singers and musicians? What songs have people sung in Gloucestershire to cheer themselves up on cold winter nights, at Harvest Homes and when they were out on the hills looking after Cotswold sheep? What amused people when they were relegated to the workhouse? What did the women sing? Carol Davies pulls together the major themes of life in Gloucestershire and the people who have lived there. The local singers in Gloucestershire – who were they? What did they do? How did they live? What can we learn about the social conditions at the time various songs were sung? There are even some songs to sing.
Carol is a retired linguist. She and her husband, Gwilym Davies, are passionate collectors of English traditional songs.