The Bird Who Sings Freedom

Though this is the debut album from Wiltshire folk singer Georgia Lewis, she has been performing as a trio with fiddler Rowan Piggott and guitarist Felix Miller for some time, releasing a self-titled EP in 2012, as well as being an established performer with the Causeway Ceili Band. On The Bird Who Sings Freedom, she plays whistle, accordion and shruti box alongside some effective flamenco stepping to the old standard, ‘Gypsies’. Lewis' trio is joined on this recording by double bassist Tom Sweeney and Evan Carson on bodhrán and percussion.
The multi-talented Piggott was also central to the recent debut album from Sussex folk singer Rosie Hodgson, which he mixed, played on and designed the artwork for, and he is again a driving creative force here, not only playing fiddle and piano, but also contributing the penultimate song, ‘A Royal Game’, and once again turning his hand to album cover design in the very beautifully made artwork.
Georgia Lewis has produced an impeccable British folk album grounded in more than half a dozen traditional songs from across the Isles, which are complemented by two self-penned numbers and the effective adaptation of writings by AE Housman and Maya Angelou.