Here’s my 2022 festive, sparkly, shimmery, feel good song Pass It On. Inspired by a very generous man who, when asked what he wanted in return for his generous acts, simply said “when you can, in whatever way you can, pass it on”. Sometimes the smallest act can start a chain of positive acts, like when you get let into traffic, so you let in someone further down the road and then they do the same and so and so on. Pass it on. spread the good will & acts of kindness. The track will be available to download and stream from 17th December on all platforms so please listen to it on repeat so I can get a Xmas number 1 😆 In the meantime here I am channeling my inner Elton John. There are also two special guest appearances too…. Director - me DoP - my Dad Eddie Anderson Stylists - Alf & Pops Designs Leaf throwers - woodland pixies Edit - me with the help of @Videoleap Special Guests Evie Anderson Poppy Cora

I created this animated film for the Musical Advent Calendar in 2020. The song I wrote a few years ago. I found the lyrics in some journals written by my Great Great Aunt Kit. They are attributed to a Mrs Cowie though I couldn’t find any more about them or her online so decided to put them to music. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen was a story that I found uncomfortable as a child and still do today. To buy the song or hear other songs inspired by the the journals or to find out more about me and my music then please visit my website www.Bertiebow.com I have never made an animated film before. I didn’t really plan it either! I just sat down and started drawing thinking I would just use a still image. But then I fed it into the app Videoleap on my iPhone 11 and started playing around and before I knew it I had created this little film. I really hope to do more in this area in particular for other songs and stories inspired by the journals and local lore of Poppy land in North Norfolk.

Let no one steal your thyme- words found in Kits journal from 1912, told to her by John Grey, a local retired farmer. Good Matches- lyrics found in Kit’s journal, no melody discovered yet so I composed a new one. Sally Bean. A song Composed telling the true history of some North Norfolk Smugglers, Ted Summers and Sally Bean. Winding Fallant- Kit carefully listed the names of the many small fields or Londs and Pightles that no longer exist. My father turned these lists into a poem which I set to music. Life On A Cliff Edge- This song shares memories from 3 different current Poppyland residents told to me in Winter 2022. Southrepps Jig- Given to me by a local musician Southrepps is a village in Poppyland and this is a trad jig.

One of the first songs I wrote for the Poppyland Song Cycle. For more info on Poppyland Songs or for the Poppyland Songs Podcast please visit my website www.bertiebow.com

First Walk is one of the compositions making up the song cycle Poppyland Songs.

Down The Road wasn’t the song we thought we’d be releasing this summer. We’ve never even played it live together! It was recorded at the end of last year and put on the back burner to be finished - edited/produced/mixed at a later date. But then Covid happened and this song just said it all. Currently as a band we are seperated by 1000s of miles and limited by technology and time but we still wanted to have a video with all of us in it. Hope you enjoy! Whilst many peoples’ lives our returning to some sort of normal we have had all our gigs either cancelled or postponed till next year losing us our main revenue and the main reason we make music. The song is available on all the usual platforms but we get a bit more £ from bandcamp so buying from there would be cool for us. ✌🏻 http://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/track/down-the-road Down The Road was inspired by a personal feeling of loss, separation, grief and desperate hopeful optimism. That personal experience has now become everyone’s experience. https://open.spotify.com/album/0xKXOo7inyi0tYNHGFOysL?si=YK514_kITb-4YuoIU7ka5g http://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/track/down-the-road https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08B5H52T9/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_icE9EbYKEAVX5 We all need something to look forward to. We miss each other dreadfully. We miss our families dreadfully. We miss playing music together. We miss playing live. Let’s hope we see you all Down The Road soon. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/down-the-road-maximal-aerobic-power-mix-single/1518436531 PS. For those of you who came to us via the folk byways, don’t be too scared! We decided to release this “Anaerobic Power Mix” first because it was just too much fun not to!This is a lyric video for our new single

AVAILABLE TO BUY FROM 1/5/19 https://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/weightless-single/1458385828 https://open.spotify.com/album/1sZOnIYAFhahCAN6eJm5o7 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weightless-BeauBowBelles/dp/B07NWJ6QDJ/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=weightless+the+beaubowbelles&qid=1558339750&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull or from all the other usual places (Itunes, Amazon, Spotify etc) Please SUBSCRIBE and SHARE SHARE SHARE! The new single Weightless from The BeauBowBelles sets a new pace and intensity for the band. Weightless is about the internal struggles of an over anxious mind forever living in fear of the ugly voice that constantly attempts to undermine and separate you from the world. Leaving behind the swing elements of some of their previous recordings this song is rooted in the alternative contemporary folk genre with a hint of Nordic folk. This lyrical content is far darker and more soul baring than any of their previous songs. Retaining the close-part harmonies, driving rhythms and soulful melodies that they have been known for. Weightless professes a maturity in their song writing, production and performance. Recorded and produced by the awesome David Holmes at Soup Studios at Lightship 95. www.soupstudio.co.uk Lyrics Ankle deep in one inch sleep These shallow shores my soul do keep Beyond the wall a Siren's call No one to hear my silent fall My edges are curling, turning brown I woke up dreaming upside down Fear it came and staked its claim I held my breath In that breath I came undone In that moment I was... In that breath I came undone In that moment I was weightless. Hear that thudding thumping drum My heart it beats, a bloody gun. Past regrets Hang crystal clear Your ugly voice is all I hear My edges are burning, turning black Keep on marching, don't look back Fear it came and left its stain, I held my breath. http://thebeaubowbelles.com https://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/thebeaubowbelles https://www.facebook.com/thebeaubowbelles https://www.instagram.com/thebeaubowbelles https://twitter.com/beaubowbelles The BeauBowBelles are a band who have struggled for 9 years with people being unable to say, spell or remember their name! For the record it is pronounced “bow bow bells” and their fans just know them as The BBBs! Recently they toyed with the idea of changing their name but decided they would rather spend their precious little time together writing songs rather than doing more admin… So, The BBBs first came together in early 2010 as a female vintage 3 part harmony group focusing mainly on cutesy covers as well as a few original songs. Over the past 9 years the band has grown up and evolved into something almost unrecognisable from those early whimsical days. The describe themselves as Swing Folk as their music inhabits both the story telling depth and heart of contemporary English folk with the more bawdy thumping accents of gypsy swing. All sung in beautiful three part harmony and underpinned by their classical music background. Since they first started they’ve released two records in 2013 (To the Moon) and 2015 (A Thing of Reality) but despite fairly regular performances there has been no new releases until now. The last few years has seen some disruption with a line up change (original member Ros Wilks being replaced by Mitch McGugan) as well as a few births along the way. But 2019 brings the release of their first record in 4 years, a series of singles starting with Weightless (01/05/2019). Bertie on Weightless “I think most of us have a sense of that ugly voice that feeds your fears. It’s insidious and sneaky, tricking you into thinking everything it says is real. It’s like being gaslighted by your own thoughts. For me the anxiety has always been about performing. I used to get terrible stage fright and i would obsess about it, getting myself into such a state of terror. I was convinced I was broken, that there was something terribly wrong with me and that it was unavoidable and no one understood. When it was at its worst I would feel disconnected from everything and everyone and beyond help.”

A song cycle written about the area in North Norfolk known as Poppyland where I grew up. Sidestrand, Overstrand and Cromer. It is a collection of original songs and music combined with poems written by myself and other local folk about the area. My dad found some notebook written by my great aunt Kit Hood. She had taken notes about the land and people around 1910, stories, lyrics field names. The lyrics for Good Matches I found in one of the note books transcribed from a Mrs Cowie. I could not find reference to these lyrics anywhere so I wrote my own melody for them. I was also shown a poem by a local sheperd about the tiny local River Mun written around the same time as Kit's notes so I set this to music too. Dubbed as Poppyland by the travel writer Clement Scott, the area became fashionable as a destination for Londoners in the Victorian times.

A song that came to me one day while a 2 year old was clinging to my leg and a 5 year old was endlessly asking questions all whilst I had a Million Things To Do!!! #Relentless #parenting #workingmum #millionthingstodo #livingthedream