Isobel and Anna Hughes

Isobel trained as an actor. Anna as a musician. They have come together to create a new form of musical storytelling: a merging of folk music and tales, spoken word, original composition and text, in an attempt to bring back the magic they used to be certain of. 

Inspired by current folk revival and conservation movements, their own form of rewilding comes from digging up forgotten stories and using them to spin adjacent worlds where music and language are interchangeable, where they share a wide-open space with an audience that are moved to remember the communal power of storytelling.  

 Their current project, A Place To Fall To Pieces, is supported by Sage Gateshead, and was selected by Mahogany Opera as one of five international operas to take part in their Various Stages Festival 2020. It has recently finished a UK tour funded by ACE, accompanied by community workshops and online exhibition ‘Songs of Home’.