"Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures" - Billy Bragg

       

       Shirley's CDs and prints of Austin John Marshall's original Anthems in Eden poster are available from this site. Click on 'For Sale' above.


Photograph Katie Vandyck

Welcome to the authorised Shirley Collins website.

Here you'll find:

 

 

details of Shirley's four shows:

America Over The Water
A Most Sunshiny Day
I'm A Romany Rai
You never heard so sweet

with actor Pip Barnes

 
Photograph Katie Vandyck

NEWS

Shirley has completed the next stage of Topic’s Voice of the People, compiling three CDs from the Peter Kennedy and Bob Copper collections. They are:

1) Songs of South East England
2) Gypsy Songs of South East England
3) Queen Caroline Hughes, the Dorset gypsy singer. 

These are to be released later this year.

Recently come to light - an extract from a BBC film of the Cottesloe "Lark Rise" production with Shirley and Martin Carthy singing The Bonny Labouring Boy   

   
Fledg'ling Records have released a re-mastered Sweet England on CD. Available now from this site.

Click here to read recent reviews of 'Sweet England'.

For As Many As Will has been re-issued on Fledg’ling Records this May, and copies are available now from this site.

MORE NEWS

The artist Thomas Shahan is working on an Alphonse Mucha inspired print of Shirley, and has given permission for this sneak preview:


Prints available for sale - Visit Thomas's website: www.ThomasShahan.com 

or email him at: opoterser@hotmail.com

LATEST!

The Sacred Harp recordings from 1959 - recorded By Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins - are among the 25 recordings named today to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Click here to read Don Fleming's (Lomax Foundation) letter to Shirley, and follow the link through to the Library of Congress press release.

A portrait of Shirley by the artist Julian Bell was included in his new exhibition of paintings, Rook Eggs, at St Anne's Galleries in Lewes. 

Shirley is named as one of about.com's 10 Trailblazing Female Musicians. Click here to follow up.

POSTERS

Austin John Marshall's original poster for Anthems in Eden from 1969. Signed by Shirley. More details at the shop.

     

 

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