An abundance of Somerset folk songs were collected by Cecil Sharp in the Mendip region where she was raised and where her family originate from. The name Mrs Price's Parlour is inspired by the photo Cecil took of a singer called Mrs Elizabeth Price who sang him a version of 'Blow Away The Morning Dew.' She was living at Compton Martin when they met and he wrote very fondly of her in his little essay entitled, 'The Mendip Singers.'
In collaboration with Windrose Rural Media Trust she has just completed the first stage of their story telling archive film and folk song project entitled, 'Those Were The Days My Friends' for The Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis and Strode Theatre in Street and is now researching films and songs for their show at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil which will take place in April 2013. Arts Council England are now supporting the project. She is also on the committee for 'Mendip Fest,' a festival of North Somerset traditional song and dance taking place in May 2013.
In 2012 she co-wrote a successful Arts Council proposal, performed at The Bristol Folk House twice, Strode Theatre, The Marine Theatre, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, at Portishead's first ever arts week in September which enabled her to research songs from The Gordano Valley and Bristol, for Glastonbury Abbey, Blenheim Gardens in association with Superact and Art Life, for Oxford's International Womens Day. Had songs played on BBC Somerset, BCFM and BBC Oxford, collaborated with Oxford poet Tina Sederholm, Somerset Crafts and The Roxy Cinema in Axbridge.
Other past experiences and projects include filming with ITV and performing with Adrian Edmondson for his show 'Ade in Britain,' creating performances which combine archive film with Somerset folk songs, performing at The Bristol Folk House, Priddy Folk Festival and The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, creating a film for the Capture Somerset project with South West Screen and The Engine Room, performing for BBC and local community radio stations, writing and presenting three special features about Cecil Sharp for the community radio station Glastonbury FM, interviewing Eddie Upton from Folk South West and Malcolm Taylor from The Vaughan William's Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House for the radio pieces.
Amanda spent many years travelling abroad, studying and working away from Somerset, obtained BA Hons in Theatre Arts from Middlesex University, trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths University and returned to Somerset in 2005 from South East Asia. Her renewed fondness for her home county of Somerset and the decision to remain is largely due to her ever growing and beautiful relationship with the song material Cecil Sharp collected.
In collaboration with Windrose Rural Media Trust she has just completed the first stage of their story telling archive film and folk song project entitled, 'Those Were The Days My Friends' for The Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis and Strode Theatre in Street and is now researching films and songs for their show at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil which will take place in April 2013. Arts Council England are now supporting the project. She is also on the committee for 'Mendip Fest,' a festival of North Somerset traditional song and dance taking place in May 2013.
In 2012 she co-wrote a successful Arts Council proposal, performed at The Bristol Folk House twice, Strode Theatre, The Marine Theatre, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, at Portishead's first ever arts week in September which enabled her to research songs from The Gordano Valley and Bristol, for Glastonbury Abbey, Blenheim Gardens in association with Superact and Art Life, for Oxford's International Womens Day. Had songs played on BBC Somerset, BCFM and BBC Oxford, collaborated with Oxford poet Tina Sederholm, Somerset Crafts and The Roxy Cinema in Axbridge.
Other past experiences and projects include filming with ITV and performing with Adrian Edmondson for his show 'Ade in Britain,' creating performances which combine archive film with Somerset folk songs, performing at The Bristol Folk House, Priddy Folk Festival and The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, creating a film for the Capture Somerset project with South West Screen and The Engine Room, performing for BBC and local community radio stations, writing and presenting three special features about Cecil Sharp for the community radio station Glastonbury FM, interviewing Eddie Upton from Folk South West and Malcolm Taylor from The Vaughan William's Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House for the radio pieces.
Amanda spent many years travelling abroad, studying and working away from Somerset, obtained BA Hons in Theatre Arts from Middlesex University, trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths University and returned to Somerset in 2005 from South East Asia. Her renewed fondness for her home county of Somerset and the decision to remain is largely due to her ever growing and beautiful relationship with the song material Cecil Sharp collected.
