Braided River Books 
New Year’s Eve Party
27th November 2023
A very exciting New Year’s Eve Party with Global Collective with special guests.
Welcome to
Seventh Wave Music 
Braided River Books
Nigel Shaw & Carolyn Hillyer
Welcome to
Seventh Wave Music
Braided River Books
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. Here 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 can hear audio samples from our music, wander around recent releases and new publications, find out about our concert and workshop programme, explore our library of films or dip into the archives to see past projects. 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 to this online roundhouse.
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO ARCTIC TRAVELS WE WILL BE CLOSING OUR OFFICE EARLY THIS YEAR. DISPATCH OF MAIL ORDERS WILL PAUSE ON DECEMBER 14th AND RESUME FROM JANUARY 5th.
Latest News
Nocturne Organic Cotton T-Shirt
14th November 2023
Nocturne, a special limited edition beautiful climate neutral organic cotton T-shirts, featuring images based on the Nocturnes and Nine Prayers North designs.
Winter Green
30th April 2023
This is the first song of Nigel’s new Lichenheart project called WINTER GREEN
The Weavers’ Trail
4th December 2022
A women’s soul pilgrimage into ritual landscape, wild shrines and sacred hearth. Carolyn’s new Braided River website contains all the details about her online workshop programme…
Weavers & Global Organic Cotton T-Shirts
30th March 2022
Weavers and Global, beautiful climate neutral organic cotton T-shirts, featuring images based on the Shaman Weavers and Global designs.
Braided River Workshops
4th February 2022
Carolyn is offering a series of new women’s workshop journeys on Dartmoor and has just published details about her online workshop programme.
Films and live stream concerts
29th January 2022
During the last few years we have created a series of filmed and live-stream concerts and ceremonies that may be viewed on our YouTube channel.
Wild Litany
28th January 2022
Carolyn’s new publication is a beautifully-produced and comprehensive archive of 200 songs and chants, with music notations and colour photos.
Her Bone Bundle
27th January 2022
A unique book of words curated and woven by Carolyn, a lyrical exploration into the mythic spirit of the Proto-Celtic ancestral mother language with an imaginative re-awakening for song and ceremony.