Shirley Collins – Hackney Citizen

Shirley Collins, Live from the Barbican, music review: ‘Long live the queen of folk!’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 15:41

The singer, accompanied by the Lodestar Band, doesn’t disappoint in her long-awaited return to the stage

‘Quiet integrity’: folk icon Shirley Collins to break silence and discuss new memoir for Pages of Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 April 2018 at 16:07

Shirley Collins - 'a key figure in English and American folk music' despite losing her voice to dysphonia for nearly 40 years. Photograph: Toby Amies

Sussex singer – who lost her voice for decades – will spend an evening at Homerton’s Sutton House reading extracts from All in the Downs and chatting about her experiences of a folk revival career spanning over 60 years