Child Ballads: The Final Six

The Child Ballads are 305 songs/broadsides of the British Isles. Created between three and five hundred years ago, they have become synonymous with modern folk music since the 1950s. The final six ballads (#'s 299-305) were never put to music until now. Assembled here are Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention), Sivert Hoyem (mult-platinum Norwegian music giant), Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding), Ed Pettersen (Award-winning singer-songwriter/producer), Gina Fergione (composer/choir director) and Marissa Nadler (Indie-rock royalty) weaving beguiling original melodies to these classic tales of magic, love lost, myth, and high drama.The London Experimental Ensemble backs them.1. Child Ballad 300 (Blanchflour and Jellyflorice)2. Child Ballad 301 (The Queen of Scotland)3. Child Ballad 302 (Young Bearwell)4. Child Ballad 303 (The Holy Nunnery)5. Child Ballad 304 (Young Ronald)6. Child Ballad 305 (The Outlaw Murray)