Jennifer Reid
@jenniferballads.bsky.social
19thC Lancashire dialect, broadside ballads, weaving & community arts. Disrupting the folk scene since 2015. Barb in #TheGallowsPole. 📸 insta: jenniferballadss
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RIP Frank O'Gorman. He was a lovely man and a brilliant historian, and I was very fortunate that he was my PhD supervisor. I will miss him.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Frank O’Gorman obituary
Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
RIP Frank O'Gorman. He was a lovely man and a brilliant historian, and I was very fortunate that he was my PhD supervisor. I will miss him.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Isn’t that the bloody coolest album cover ever of all time ✨ @jenniferballads.bsky.social Ballad of the Gatekeeper 🌿
August 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Isn’t that the bloody coolest album cover ever of all time ✨ @jenniferballads.bsky.social Ballad of the Gatekeeper 🌿
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Clogs, salon talons and a Tupac t-shirt. Jennifer Reid is a stunner @jenniferballads.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Clogs, salon talons and a Tupac t-shirt. Jennifer Reid is a stunner @jenniferballads.bsky.social
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I got the new album from @jenniferballads.bsky.social in the post and a line in the sleeve notes shows how she and I are singing from the same hymn sheet, her for folk, me for church “I believe you should try to get everywhere like water, make the tradition undeniable, support people to participate”
June 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I got the new album from @jenniferballads.bsky.social in the post and a line in the sleeve notes shows how she and I are singing from the same hymn sheet, her for folk, me for church “I believe you should try to get everywhere like water, make the tradition undeniable, support people to participate”
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It's here 🤩
Haven't had chance to play it yet but worth every penny for the artwork alone.
Haven't had chance to play it yet but worth every penny for the artwork alone.
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It's here 🤩
Haven't had chance to play it yet but worth every penny for the artwork alone.
Haven't had chance to play it yet but worth every penny for the artwork alone.
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Proud to call Jenn a friend yet even I did not see something of such import coming. As a wordsmith I know the term 'unique' is almost always mis-used but in this case, it is fully justified. Listen, learn and be moved.
Here it is! THE NEW ALBUM IS OUT! open.spotify.com/album/3RlvqL...
The Ballad of the Gatekeeper
Jennifer Reid · Album · 2025 · 11 songs
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June 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Proud to call Jenn a friend yet even I did not see something of such import coming. As a wordsmith I know the term 'unique' is almost always mis-used but in this case, it is fully justified. Listen, learn and be moved.
Here it is! THE NEW ALBUM IS OUT! open.spotify.com/album/3RlvqL...
The Ballad of the Gatekeeper
Jennifer Reid · Album · 2025 · 11 songs
open.spotify.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here it is! THE NEW ALBUM IS OUT! open.spotify.com/album/3RlvqL...
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On a glorious Friday in Manchester, @jenniferballads.bsky.social is in full song.
May 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On a glorious Friday in Manchester, @jenniferballads.bsky.social is in full song.
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Forget the kings and queens and all that guff, Jennifer Reid keeps our real history alive.
This will be a great project - traditional Lancashire folk, broadsides, radical history.
This will be a great project - traditional Lancashire folk, broadsides, radical history.
March 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Forget the kings and queens and all that guff, Jennifer Reid keeps our real history alive.
This will be a great project - traditional Lancashire folk, broadsides, radical history.
This will be a great project - traditional Lancashire folk, broadsides, radical history.
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We published Jenn, yonks ago. If you’re not familiar with her work we urge you to become so…
February 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We published Jenn, yonks ago. If you’re not familiar with her work we urge you to become so…
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-ballad...
The ever brilliant @jenniferballads.bsky.social is crowdfunding her new album. If you can afford to make a donation please do.
The ever brilliant @jenniferballads.bsky.social is crowdfunding her new album. If you can afford to make a donation please do.
The Ballad of the Gatekeeper album
Jennifer Reid is a performer of Industrial Revolution work song, Lancashire dialect and clog steps. This is her new album.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-ballad...
The ever brilliant @jenniferballads.bsky.social is crowdfunding her new album. If you can afford to make a donation please do.
The ever brilliant @jenniferballads.bsky.social is crowdfunding her new album. If you can afford to make a donation please do.
February 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
APRIL IN NEW ZEALAND
February 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
APRIL IN NEW ZEALAND
SPRING SUMMER UK 2025
February 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
SPRING SUMMER UK 2025
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Next ones !!!
December 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Next ones !!!
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New release on Sonido P !!! Just been pre released and they’ll be on general sale soon sonidopolifonico.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
New release on Sonido P !!! Just been pre released and they’ll be on general sale soon sonidopolifonico.bandcamp.com
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It’s worth tracking down a copy of Sam Fitton’s poem ‘Shuttle-Kissin’ too! @jenniferballads.bsky.social performs this number to great effect.
Today’s newsletter from the Manchester History Club is about the hidden practice in cotton weaving mills of kissing the shuttle - and how it damaged the health of generations of weavers.
#Manchester #weaving #textiles #history
#Manchester #weaving #textiles #history
Kissing the Shuttle
How an invention that sparked the industrial revolution in Lancashire became a hidden killer of the region's mill workers
www.manchesterhistory.uk
January 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
It’s worth tracking down a copy of Sam Fitton’s poem ‘Shuttle-Kissin’ too! @jenniferballads.bsky.social performs this number to great effect.
New release on Sonido P !!! Just been pre released and they’ll be on general sale soon sonidopolifonico.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
New release on Sonido P !!! Just been pre released and they’ll be on general sale soon sonidopolifonico.bandcamp.com
Next ones !!!
December 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Next ones !!!
Some dates for your diary !
March 8, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Some dates for your diary !
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🗃️ #C19th
In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer @jenniferballads.bsky.social introduces and sings a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/03/i...
In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer @jenniferballads.bsky.social introduces and sings a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/03/i...
In tune: The Bury New Loom
In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer Jennifer Reid introduces a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services - that is ...
sslh.org.uk
December 3, 2023 at 7:56 AM
🗃️ #C19th
In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer @jenniferballads.bsky.social introduces and sings a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/03/i...
In the second of our 'In tune' series on music and labour history, ballad singer @jenniferballads.bsky.social introduces and sings a song about a travelling loom engineer - and a young woman in need of his services
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/03/i...
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A huge welcome to Lancashire dialect and broadside ballad singer (and all round good thing) @jenniferballads.bsky.social who has made it here from The Other Place #C19th 🗃️
November 30, 2023 at 10:45 AM
A huge welcome to Lancashire dialect and broadside ballad singer (and all round good thing) @jenniferballads.bsky.social who has made it here from The Other Place #C19th 🗃️