Sarah is a cellist-singer and activist, creating music and poetry deeply rooted in nature and place. Her music has been played on BBC Radio 2, BBC Look North, and has been used for environmental campaigns by Greenpeace, COP26 and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Prior to her solo career, she toured and recorded internationally with renowned artists such as Michael Chapman, Bridget St John, The Mediaeval Baebes, Gren Bartley, King Creosote, The Magpies and many more. This led her to appear at many mainstream and folk festivals across the globe such as Primavera Sound, Shambala, Greenbelt, Cambridge, Green Man, Larmer Tree, and Folk Alliance International.
More recently, Sarah's music video 'Atlas' was featured at COP26 as part of the IUCN Peatland Pavilion, with the aim of creating awareness about Yorkshire's fragile and important peat bogs. 'Atlas' also received airplay on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show ("deeply lovely" - Mark Radcliffe), was featured on BBC Look North and COP26tv.
Her collaborative work with environmental organisations has also seen her providing Greenpeace with a Save the Arctic anthem in 2017, and teaming up in 2021 with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to create music videos in the wild for an ongoing project called Wild Music. This project will feature more single videos to be released in collaboration with YWT, filmed in different environments.
Further to this, in 2021 Sarah was commissioned by the Ensemble Team at Lancaster University to write a theme song for their "Entangled" Festival. Using their environmental research as inspiration, she wrote and recorded a song-poem called 'Sinking Sand', and filmed a music video at Heysham Head near Morecambe.
Sarah also draws inspiration from places that are remote and offer alternative lenses with which to view our connection to nature. In 2018 she travelled to Iceland by boat, via Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, in order to collect natural sounds and songs from each island to make into a sound-map. These experiences have culminated in an entrancing solo show - 'Eyjar' (Old Norse for "islands") - that explores human relationships with nature, climate change and sense of place through music, poetry and spoken word. Sarah's solo performances are imbued with visceral story-telling, bristling with atmosphere created with looped cello, haunting melodies and deeply felt lyrics. Audience members are left feeling transported and mesmerised, with sounds and rhythms that are never too far from the sea.
2022 will see the release of a new short film made at a Yorkshire Dales church close to Sarah’s heart. Hubberholme is a small hamlet where she has many memories, and the ancient church is a calm and beautiful sanctuary that has seen huge changes happen in the Dales, but has remained largely unchanged itself. Sarah wanted to film and record here with the beautiful acoustics and special, personal meaning attached to the location. This film will feature material from Eyjar and other songs about Sarah’s connection to nature, intertwined with footage of the location and a new poem inspired by the river. This project was awarded funding by Help Musicians and Launchpad Leeds. The film premiered in May 2022 at Skipton Plaza Cinema as part of Hinterlands Festival.
In 2021 Sarah performed at Hinterlands Festival and at Manchester Folk Festival/English Folk Expo supporting Sam Lee at the RNCM. 2022 will see her perform at Timber Festival, Just So Festival and more TBA.
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More recently, Sarah's music video 'Atlas' was featured at COP26 as part of the IUCN Peatland Pavilion, with the aim of creating awareness about Yorkshire's fragile and important peat bogs. 'Atlas' also received airplay on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show ("deeply lovely" - Mark Radcliffe), was featured on BBC Look North and COP26tv.
Her collaborative work with environmental organisations has also seen her providing Greenpeace with a Save the Arctic anthem in 2017, and teaming up in 2021 with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to create music videos in the wild for an ongoing project called Wild Music. This project will feature more single videos to be released in collaboration with YWT, filmed in different environments.
Further to this, in 2021 Sarah was commissioned by the Ensemble Team at Lancaster University to write a theme song for their "Entangled" Festival. Using their environmental research as inspiration, she wrote and recorded a song-poem called 'Sinking Sand', and filmed a music video at Heysham Head near Morecambe.
Sarah also draws inspiration from places that are remote and offer alternative lenses with which to view our connection to nature. In 2018 she travelled to Iceland by boat, via Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, in order to collect natural sounds and songs from each island to make into a sound-map. These experiences have culminated in an entrancing solo show - 'Eyjar' (Old Norse for "islands") - that explores human relationships with nature, climate change and sense of place through music, poetry and spoken word. Sarah's solo performances are imbued with visceral story-telling, bristling with atmosphere created with looped cello, haunting melodies and deeply felt lyrics. Audience members are left feeling transported and mesmerised, with sounds and rhythms that are never too far from the sea.
2022 will see the release of a new short film made at a Yorkshire Dales church close to Sarah’s heart. Hubberholme is a small hamlet where she has many memories, and the ancient church is a calm and beautiful sanctuary that has seen huge changes happen in the Dales, but has remained largely unchanged itself. Sarah wanted to film and record here with the beautiful acoustics and special, personal meaning attached to the location. This film will feature material from Eyjar and other songs about Sarah’s connection to nature, intertwined with footage of the location and a new poem inspired by the river. This project was awarded funding by Help Musicians and Launchpad Leeds. The film premiered in May 2022 at Skipton Plaza Cinema as part of Hinterlands Festival.
In 2021 Sarah performed at Hinterlands Festival and at Manchester Folk Festival/English Folk Expo supporting Sam Lee at the RNCM. 2022 will see her perform at Timber Festival, Just So Festival and more TBA.
For full artist bio click here