The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Jessie Summerhayes in the Rosedale Valley

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In the shadow of the disused ironstone kilns of the Rosedale Valley in North Yorkshire, Ciderhouse Rebellion - fiddle player Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger - conjure up a soundscape of rare beauty - improvised on the spot. Then they add evocative poetry from Adam’s daughter Jessie to create, in words and music, a picture of the harshness of Victorian industry in the midst of the beauty of nature.

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0:00.0	The Folk on Foot podcast is all about the interaction between landscape and music.
0:10.3	And when we heard that there was a group called the Siderhouse Rebellion,
0:13.7	who were spontaneously creating music in a North Yorkshire landscape, we thought we had to meet them.
0:26.4	The Siderhouse Rebell are Adam Somerhays on Fiddle and Murray Granger on accordion,
0:31.0	and they've particularly singled out a spot in the Valley of Rosedale where an industrial process of extracting ironstone used to take place in the 1800s,
0:37.4	and you can see the giant stone relics of that process in the landscape.
0:42.6	And not only have they been responding to that landscape in their music,
0:47.3	but they've been creating the music in an improvisation on that very spot.
0:52.1	So we're going to get them to do it again for us.
0:54.8	And they've invited Adam's daughter, Jesse Summerhays,
0:58.2	to create poetry, which complements their spontaneous music.
1:02.7	It's going to be a voyage of musical discovery
1:05.1	into the history of this part of the North Yorkshire Moors.
1:09.0	I'm so looking forward to it.
1:40.2	Music of this part of the North Yorkshire Moors. I'm so looking forward to it. I'm so looking forward to it. Murray, Adam, Jessie, good morning. Fantastic to see you.
1:42.3	And what an amazing place you've brought us to. There's a field of sheep, there's a chapel, there's a valley falling away. Adam, where are we?
1:52.2	Well, most importantly, actually, just beyond the valley and the sheep, at the top of that hill over there, you can just see a bit of a building that belongs to
2:01.0	the pub that serves the finest old peculiar that i've ever had ah this is a great opening for the
2:06.2	podcast it's all going really well so far other than that this is this is rosedale uh this bit is
2:14.0	rosedale east um and you get up to the head of the dale up there.
2:18.3	And just at the top of this incline that we're on, you get to the start of a railway
2:25.3	that goes all the way around the valley and over to Middlesbrough, which is to do with old ironstone mining.
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