Sheepdipmusic - finger-picking good

 

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home page of singer-songwriter/ guitarist 

               Michael Luntley

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                                                  ​photo credit- John Smith

 

                                          Llyn Guitar Festival

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Also home to

The Sheep Dip Sessions -

'house concert' series started by Michael

and hosted by Michael and his wife Dee

since November 2011.  First at their house in Sheep Dip Lane,Princethorpe, then, since 2022 at Harbury Village Library​.

Hit 'Sessions' for more on the Sheep Dip Sessions

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New CD just out Sept 2024:

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​     from this ground

      a cycle of 16 songs, six poems plus narration

      telling the stories of an ill-feted migration to Brazil in 1872

      by farm labourers and their families - stories of identity,

      belonging and migration from 1872 to the present day.

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   songs, music & narration - Michael Luntley

   poems - Olga Dermott Bond

   performed by Michael Luntley, guitars, banjo, mandolin;

   Maura Barnett, violin; Nicky Luntley vocals, Olga Dermott

   Bond poetry; Chris Barber narration.

   linocuts - Dee Luntley

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£10, ordering by email to sheepdipmusic@gmail.com 50% of sales to local refugee charity - Welcome Here (Leamington & Warwick) for whom we are performing a benefit concert on 16th November 2024.

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A bit about Michael......

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I started playing the blues...until I saw Martin Simpson play...

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I've been song-writing for fifteen or more years, telling stories.  Most of my material is based on true stories, for the main part stories about how we live now.   Some say 'folk music' tells the stories of 'ordinary folk'.  I disagree.  Everyone is extraordinary and has extraordinary stories worth listening to and worth telling.

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I've played at most of the folk clubs around Warwickshire, though don't perform so often nowadays, unless it's for a charity event.

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My most recent work is the cycle of songs, poetry and narration - from this ground, ( see above). The stories are timeless, highlighting all the issues found in contemporary migration narratives.

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Previous song cycles include 'Calling them home' - set of songs and poems commemorating the centenary of armistice (poems again by Olga); and 'back to the land' a song cycle about rural artefacts on display in Leamington Museum and performed in the museum amongst the display cases in.

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