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[Add this page to the Navigation view to display hyperlinks here] TONY MORRIS HIGHLY ORIGINAL Tony Morris entertains with his own material, a highly original and varied mix of his own Folk Songs, Poetry, Music and Story with no regard to "Radio Playability". "Multi-instrumental Folk Legend" (Durham Book Festival Programme 2008) He is a player and recording artist of Amerynd Flute (‘y’ pronounced as in ‘why’) a word he has coined to cover both Native American and Native American Style Flute (for a full explanation see Blog on www.myspace.com/flutingandfloating ). He is based in Whitby/York giving solo performances and working with a North Yorkshire healer on flute music and meditation, 'Fluting and Floating'. A ONE-OFF. AN ORIGINAL. He is said to be a working British Bard in the Ancient Tradition
translating to and for the Modern World. Stuck for a
Sales or Marketing idea – Talk to Tony
In School? –
Talk to Tony
In Your
Community? – Talk to Tony
Work with the Older Citizen? – Talk to Tony In Your Museum? – Well, he’s not stuffed yet but, still, Talk to
Tony Until you have Talked to Tony you have no ideaKEEP IN TOUCH Click above to contact Click Below to see More Use Back Button to return to this page The Resident Poet for BBC Radio York North
Yorkshire Folk: “Tony Morris has proved a huge hit” (Michael Brothwell,
programme presenter). Tony Morris is
known for his “Trappy Lad” CD of ironstone mining songs and stories of
the Great Ironstone Rush and his talks on ironstone mining. Traditional
folksong 'you could imagine sung in home or down the mine' (The Link).
You can listen by clicking www.myspace.com/tomlennard Tom Lennard is a character Tony Morris has created for his Play with song, 'Iron Rush'. This is ideal Theatre in Education and has been successfully performed before family audiences in Literary and Science and Technology Festivals and in Village Hall and Museum. Tony Morris has written and sung songs about Captain William Scoresby of Whitby for a School film project on whaling and his 'Ballad of the Nunnington Worm' is being used for a similar purpose. As ‘Antonius Sayer of Songs’ Tony Morris's performance of his metrical
tales at medieval banquets with Bard’s Harp and Viking Lyre are acclaimed and
show only part of his multi-talented, multi-instrumental improvisational
skills. Tony Morris is proud to be member of both EQUITY and the Musician's Union. Tony Morris's FUNERAL POEMS in his Book “Farewell to Friends” are valued for their eclectic nature and performance notes and his close work with the suddenly bereaved. Tony has little time left to exhibit his fascinating paintings, unusual for his particular technique in the use of watercolour so click www.myspace.com/tonypaints On this page click highlighted topics. Use back button to return to this page.
For full review see News and Reviews page.
See also other Links and and www.myspace.com/tonymorrismusic THERE'S A LOT ON THIS PAGE SCROLL ON DOWN
Review/ Folk Roundabout Issue 139 "This
is a project of considerable artistic merit .. should have a wide ..
appeal-base; it certainly ought to interest the folk/local historian as well
as the folksong specialist... those enterprising singers who are
sufficiently open-minded and willing
to venture beyond the safely tried-and-tested will feel encouraged to rise to the challenge of
interpreting one or more of Tony's original compositions into or
within the context of their own song repertoire. Heartiest congratulations
to Tony on this most fulfilling release."
ON
SALE PRICE £10 at: The
Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, Skinnigrove, The
Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, Folk Devils, Sandgate, Whitby, Diamond
Music, Flowergate, Whitby, Little Apple Book Shop, High Petergate, York. or
Direct by Mail Order from Tony
Morris, 1 South View, Whitby, YO21 1PQ Cheques payable to Tony Morris. Ironstone mining in North Yorkshire is part of our industrial
history that is all but forgotten. There is an excellent Video/DVD by Craig
Hornby ‘A Century In Stone’ and the Cleveland Mining Museum at
Skinnigrove and The Ryedale Folk
Museum at Hutton-le-Hole [both well worth a visit] otherwise ironstone
mining is a dramatic part of our industrial heritage that has been neglected.
The Great North Yorkshire Iron Rush of the 1850's
was as dramatic as the Californian Gold Rush. One of the reasons for the neglect is that there were no
folksongs to perpetuate the memory of ironstone mining and ironstone miners,
as with songs of coal, lead and tin. While writing the ironstone songs Tony Morris was shocked to
be asked, even by people intimately connected with the coal and power
Industry, “What did they get from ironstone?” What they got was the iron that made North
Yorkshire, for a time, the Iron and Steel Capital of the World. Tony Morris hopes that by writing and recording songs about
ironstone mining, miners and their associates in a folksong mode he will
encourage others to take them up and sing them and raise awareness of
the forgotten ironstone mining industry. As well as including some of the
songs in his normal performance sets he has created the Play with song 'Iron
Rush' with the character of Tom Lennard, an ironstone miner born 1869 and
very much alive today with his own myspace site at www.myspace.com/tomlennard
This is ideal Theatre in Education and has been successfully performed before
family audiences in Literary and Science and Technology Festivals and in
Village Hall and Museum.As one audience member said recently, "An
amazing way to bring history to life." Tony Morris hopes that by chatting, in performance, whether
in Folk Club, Community venue or Schools, about the context of the ironstone
mining songs and how he came to write them he will raise the profile of the
forgotten industrial history of ironstone mining in Yorkshire and the lives
of the miners and their associates and the conditions under which they lived
and worked. To
listen to some tracks from 'Trappy Lad' click www.myspace.com/tomlennard CD of TONY MORRIS'S 2003
Album of Music and Poetry 'CHANGING TRACKS' YOU
CAN LISTEN TO SAMPLE tracks on www.myspace.com/tonymorrismusic ALSO Looking for a poem to read at a Funeral or Memorial? BOOK of 108 poems by TONY MORRIS specially for the purpose of, with 'how to use' section which explains how to personalise each of these funeral poems for reading aloud at any funeral when you are saying farewell to a friend. 'Farewell
to Friends' price £10 inc. p&p direct 'FAREWELL TO FRIENDS' was written and compiled at the
request of a funeral director when the vogue for reading a funeral poem aloud
at a funeral or memorial became popular following the success of the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' Because 'Farewell to friends' contains such a diversity of
poems, in addition to its use as a
handbook for funeral poetry it is also suitable for quiet, private reading by
the bereaved. No one who might be asked to read
a poem aloud at a funeral or memorial should be without this book,
particularly those in the caring professions who should always keep a
copy of 'Farewell to Friends' handy in their library or filing cabinet. INTRODUCING - TONY MORRIS - TONY MORRIS has written
poetry for most of his
life. He has read his poetry
in various venues and on radio and television. He
directed an arts festival in York. In the 1980's,
although he was still writing, the theatre then began to fill his artistic
life for ten years but he found time from 1987 to create his own individual
style of painting using watercolour and ink. It was painting that lead him back to poetry performance. In 1993
he opened an exhibition of his paintings
at the York Arts Centre with a poetry
and music performance in conjunction with a flute playing friend
and celebrated with the publication of his first book since 1983 ‘Poems for an Exhibition’ . This was a
great success but it did remind TONY MORRIS of the difficulties of his
working with professional musicians. As the result of
disparate influences, namely contact with the then ‘budding’ performance poet, Adrian
Spendlow, the Rose Theatre Company and the jokey christmas gift of a
harmonica and a Klutz book, TONY MORRIS started to revive a long dormant
talent for musical improvisation.
The harmonica was joined by many other musical
instruments. The poetry flowed
and was published: the musical
philosophy took root and grew. In 2001
TONY decided to leave the cramped confines of the the judiciary to
devote himself to his poetry
and music performances full
time. By Leading workshops in poetry,
music and his style of painting he encourages others of
all ages to share his unique skills. Progressive,
improvised music is an integral
part of many of TONY'S 'poems'
which he prefers to refer to as 'pieces' to overcome the popular, perhaps
'unpopular', concept of 'poetry'. Although
his views on poetry and painting are very much in tune with
his views on music he has found
it necessary to set out a clear statement of his views on music (see
so those taking part in his workshops can free
themselves of conventional attitudes
toward music more quickly. Tony's talents
have taken him into the world of Folk Music performance where his robust approach
alienates some and captivates others.
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