grace will lead me home
Grace Will Lead Me Home in a narrated musical show that tells the story of John Newton in the 300th anniversary of his birth. Newton was a sailor who rose to be the captain of a slave trading ship. Later he became a preacher who wrote many hymns including Amazing Grace and later still he spoke out for abolition. The Grace Will Lead Me Home album was one of the best received folk albums of 2024 and appeared in the Top Ten Folk Albums of the year in Mojo and The Morning Star.
Following this success, the group of musicians and collaborators are now bringing these songs of slavery and salvation to the stage. Jon Bickley is a songwriter and folk singer who invited Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and John Palmer to join the project. Jon is a fundraiser, an organiser, a poet and the presenter of The Invisible Folk Club radio show and podcast. Angeline Morrison is a singer and multi-instrumentalist and one of the significant voices to arise out of folk music in recent years. Her ground breaking album ‘The Sorrow Songs – Folk Songs of Black British Experience’ used history and imagination to tell stories of UK Black ancestors in the sonic style of UK traditional and folk music. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is a familiar face at Sidmouth; his concertina playing has lit up concerts throughout the folk world whether it is as part of Granny’s Attic or as a solo performer or collaborations with other artists. Marketing specialist John Palmer is the narrator and script writer of the show. Audiences will remember John from Sidmouth 2024 where he narrated ‘Ghosts, Werewolves and Country Folk’ with Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes.