Previously Appearing at Wickham was...
Reg Meuross
Reg’s clever and imaginative lyrics have earned him the title of “Master Storyteller” (PennyBlack Music) and led Mike Harding (Mike Harding Folk Show) to introduce him onto the stage of The Royal Albert Hall as “one of the finest singer-songwriters this country has produced”. Whether it’s a village hall or the Albert Hall, Reg brings to the stage a collection of extremely beautiful songs, performed with humour and depth, and sung with the voice of an angel. Reg has that rare gift of being able to touch people, through his songs and performance, on a really human level. His words and music paint pictures that remain with the listener long after the song has been sung.
Reg Meuross appeared in 2018
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Wonderful to return to a record audience at On The Levels in Westonzoyland yesterday. I'd been there in 2008 on the rural touring scheme and a man had said “You write songs about people & places; write a song about Westonzoyland, that’ll be a challenge!” I don't always like those challenges.. but I accepted this one, and the song I wrote was about the Battle of Sedgemoor which took places just a few metres from St Mary's church where I was playing yesterday. This was the last civil battle on English soil. The prisoners from the Duke of Monmouth’s army were held in the church where I played the song, and those who didn’t die there were later hanged or deported by Judge Jefferies Bloody Assizes. The church has a heritage centre which tells the whole story. The song is, as yet, unreleased and it was a very moving experience to sing it in the very place those men were held, and where some of them died.
See you out there.
Reg x
regmeuross.com/events
This week/weekend:
TUES 25 Feb Bradford on Avon Folk Club
WEDS 26 Feb Roots Sessions at The Cheese and Grain Frome.
FRI 28 Feb Twigg's Gigs Exeter
SAT 29 Feb Brixham Theatre - 12 Silk Handkerchiefs solo special with support Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall
SUN 1 March Dreamers Folk, Redruth
#RAWtour
See you tomorrow in Bradford on Avon
See you tomorrow Reg
Pete Townshend is producing music and exec producing Reg Meuross Music's new project: FIRE AND DUST.
It’s a song-cycle about Woody Guthrie. Hopefully an album soon, then touring production in 2021.
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Good luck with the project Reg. Seen The Who a few times. Pete is certainly one of the most important and exciting song writers of our generation. He knows a thing or two about songwriting. I'm not surprised he noticed your talent.
That sounds like an amazing project and collaboration. Best of luck with it!
You lucky man Reg what a studio Yaggerdang has!!
Reg Meuros and Pete Townsend??? Oh my!
Best wishes for the project
Wow great stuff 👍
That’s pretty feckin awesome 😎
Very exciting!
Wow fantastic!
Great stuff and nice pic
My brother’s Sheffield uni band, Superslug, supported the Who in ‘70. First big gig I went to. My ears rang for the next week - amazing show. Look forward to this collaboration with Reg who has never rendered me deaf after a show!
What’s it like to be working with such a great musician Pete ?
Hey Bryn, please don’t forget that the Who incl’ Pete Townsend supported a band I was playing in at Salford University in Dec 1968. Or was it the other way round?
Coolio.
I knew there was a reason you popped up in his autobiography.
Pete who...? 🤔
Which barge?
On February 22nd 1943 Sophie Scholl was convicted of High Treason and executed by guillotine on the same day. She was 21 years old when she died for her role leading dissent and active resistance to the rule of Nazi Germany. Four days earlier Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Christoph were arrested having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich. Their tools of revolution were words, paper and a printing press. After the students’ deaths the sixth leaflet of the movement was smuggled out of Germany and used by the Allied Forces, who showered millions of copies of Sophie’s work over Germany just a few months after her execution.
Sophie’s story is a true lesson in dissent and serves to remind us that we have a responsibility to ensure that we never sleepwalk into such darkness again.
Sophies final words:
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
Your wonderful song keeps the memory of this brave young woman alive. As long as that story lives, it reminds us - and teaches young people - that protecting human rights is the business of all of us.
I have a German friend and talked to him about Sophie. He tells me there were many like her, and many memorials in Germany today. Hopefully ensuring this will not happen again in Germany. Doris
A true hero of humankind. Deep respect for her sacrifice.
Reg Meuross, this song of yours always makes me cry. You've taken the terrible beauty of her story and transmuted it into an exquisite lament that stirs all who are lucky enough to hear it. Thank you.
This is utterly beautiful. I'm so glad you've commemorated her like this. She's a particular hero of mine.
Bravo my friend, just gorgeous!
A beautiful song and a fitting tribute.
One of your most beautiful songs and such a fitting tribute to Sophie Scholl. 🌹
A good reminder in these troubling times.
Thank you so much Reg for keeping her memory alive.
Posted a picture of Sophie the other day and my friend pointed me in your direction 💜just beautiful! x
A wonderful song Reg. 👏👏
Another Reg Meuross masterpiece!
Oh my heart ❤
