NIGEL SHAW & CAROLYN HILLYER
We welcome you to this website, to the hearth fire of our ancestor roundhouse and to this place of wild sanctuary on Dartmoor. We live and work in the heart of the southwest moors, amid the high hills, upland streams and misted valleys. We create music albums and concerts, books and paintings, traditional flutes and drums, women’s workshops and instrument making weekends, small festivals and gentle gatherings on our ancient farm. Within these pages you are able to listen to audio samples from our music, wander around our recent releases and new publications, find out about the events programme or explore the archive of videos and slide shows from past projects (under About Us). Our music label Seventh Wave Music pages are marked with a spiral, our publishing house Braided River Books pages are marked with a wing. We hope you will enjoy your visit and these offerings from Dartmoor.
Latest News from Seventh Wave Music
Music For Midwinter
You are warmly invited to join us for a live-stream fireside concert of music from our sitting room on December 21 Monday starting at 7pm
New Publication – Her Bone Bundle
We are offering a special new publication for midwinter: a book of words curated and woven by Carolyn Hillyer, a lyrical exploration into the mythic
The Coat of Night
A Winter Blessing from Dartmoor: to celebrate and honour midwinter we offer you this film, created on our land last year
Ancestors & Bones Organic Cotton T-Shirts
Beautiful climate neutral organic cotton t-shirt based on the Ancestors and Bones album cover designs and featuring images adapted from very ancient rock carvings found
Live stream concerts and videos
On this page you will find links to all the live stream concerts and filmed roundhouse ceremonies we have made this year.
Nine Prayers North
Our most recent album Nine Prayers North continues to sit at the heart of our online concerts and we will be travelling with it again next year. You can find more details under new releases.
Book of Hag & Shawl of Feathers
As the year turns out of the cave of winter, there are still cold nights and icy days ahead in which to explore this collection of crones and grandmothers: Book of Hag / Winter Folded Everything Inside a Shawl of Feathers.
Weavers’ Oracle
The Weavers’ Oracle, now in its seventh edition, continues to travel far around the world. Also now available with German or Russian translation .
