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 galleries to see our archive of 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. The drum symbol represents our new independent music and audio streaming platform; Wildstream is our third strand of watery magic! We hope you will enjoy your visit to this online roundhouse.
For regular news and updates you can find us on Instagram: carolynhillyer.nigelshaw & braidedriver.weaverstrail.
Latest News
Lichenheart
Lichenheart is a tender instrumental exploration into the exquisite dreamscape of ancient moorland. Its first surprising chords carry us through a tear-spilling, heart-filling, darkening pilgrimage,enveloping us within its raw wonder.
Wildstream
Launching today! Welcome to WILDSTREAM, our independent streaming hub, where we are hosting a new music and audio community. We are nearly ready to share this with you… With thanks to Dan at Insidr Music for creating this beautiful vessel for our music….
River Stone Gathering
August 29-31: we are celebrating 30 years of being here at Lower Merripit Farm by opening the land to a wonderful gathering of family, friends and fellow-travellers, offering a menu of ceremony, music, sacred craft, mythic tales, wild shrines and roundhouse hearth, all wrapped within the summer meadows, woods and marshes…
Deep Skies
Nigel will be joining Kevin Kendle and Brian Abbott on May 24 for a very special live performance of Kevin’s highly acclaimed space music, set to stunning visuals and presented for the first time in Devon at the beautiful Moor Imagination Centre…
Book of Hag (Peat)
The second season of Carolyn’s BOOK OF HAG continues the journey through old age and towards ancientness that was explored in the first volume. Old women, elders, grandmothers, crones and hags track their footsteps into the primordial landscape of wild marshes and ancient feral dreams…
Through the Heron’s Marsh
To accompany the second BOOK OF HAG, Carolyn has published her new cycle of art work in this beautiful limited edition collection of paintings and peat prayers that features the ancient Marsh Women or mûkthno wailî…
This Remembered Earth
This album of our new co-created music honours sorrow and hope for our Earth, connecting us to the ancestral memory that holds us with strength and integrity to our human trails. We will be performing this music throughout the year…
The Creel & the Crock & the Cauldron
Carolyn’s new album is a wild blend of song weavings, spell bindings, soul ballads and comic ditties, all stirred into a magical pot. They have been shaped by her personal steps along the hag road, that knotty, gnarly, nebulous route towards being old, older and very old. Crones have a lot to sing about!
Weavers’ Oracle
The Weavers’ Oracle has become a deeply loved classic work and, after nine years, continues to travel all around the world. It sits at the heart of her Weavers’ Trail online programme and is now available in German, Russian and Slovakian translations…
The Weavers’ Trail
A women’s soul pilgrimage into ritual landscape, wild shrines and sacred hearth. Our sister website, the Braided River, contains details about Carolyn’s online rolling workshop programme. You are welcome to dip a toe into the this river…
Ancestral organic t-shirts
We now have an ancestral clothing range! Five choices of beautiful climate neutral organic cotton T-shirts inspired by songs and images from our albums, and featuring ancient Scandinavian and Siberian rock carvings. Profit donations to Survival…
The Global Collective
The Global Collective is the latest incarnation of our Global vintage dance music family! The music carries the energy and tradition of Global’s wild shamanic trance dance, into a re-imagined acoustic world music mix. Playing gigs this summer…
Her Bone Bundle
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.
Wild Litany
Carolyn’s new publication is a beautifully-produced and comprehensive archive of 200 songs and chants, with music notations and colour photos.
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 this year. You can find more details under new releases.