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Greetings good people, from good old Penzance,
My name is GurdyBird, I mix folk tunes with trance,
And hornpipes with house and make some songs less wordy...
Because I can't sing, so I play hurdy-gurdy.

Which is what I am wearing, if you haven't seen
Or heard of a gurdy, it's something between
A grinder for coffee and a violin
Which is bowed by a wheel as I push the keys in.

So I'll play you some tunes on the themes of All Hallows
Via Montol and sailors and of course, Tyburn Gallows,
So enough of this intro, without further delay,
Sir, please push in that button to make me backing tracks play.

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from GurdyBird's GurdyWords & live tunes from 2016, released December 13, 2016
Introduced by Jonty Depp at Exeter Phoenix, for Professor Elemental's Steampunk Pirate Yule Ball 2016

Poem © Tamsyn "GurdyBird" Swingler

Recorded by Paul Betowski

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GurdyBird England, UK

Based in Cornwall, GurdyBird plays a Hurdy-Gurdy over her backing tracks which she performs, programmes and records herself, creating original compositions and unusual renditions of traditional folk tunes & shanties, performing with her music videos projected where possible for a multimedia, story-telling effect. She also roams acoustically at events, performs plugged & also dabbles in remixing. ... more

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