{{Short description|British musician, singer and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Use British English|date=April 2023}} {{BLPsources|date=July 2025}} '''Angeline Morrison''' is a British multi-instrumentalist musician, songwriter and academic.
==Life== Angeline Morrison was born to a Jamaican mother and a father from the Outer Hebrides. She attended her first folk club at the age of 17, and became active in the Midlands music scene.<ref name=Cartwright>{{cite news | first=Garth | last=Cartwright | title=Angeline Morrison: 'I can count on one hand the times I've been in a folk club with other people of colour' | newspaper=The Guardian | date=7 October 2022 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/07/angeline-morrison-i-can-count-on-one-hand-the-times-ive-been-in-a-folk-club-with-other-people-of-colour | access-date=16 October 2022 }}</ref> She lives in Truro, Cornwall.<ref name=Cartwright/>
Morrison performs and records under her own name and as The Ambassadors of Sorrow. She is half of the duos We Are Muffy (with Nick Duffy of The Lilac Time), and Rowan: Morrison (with The Rowan Amber Mill). She also sings with freakbeat band The Mighty Sceptres (along with Nick Radford, who has also released music and collaborated with Morrison as Frootful).<ref name=Cartwright/> thumb|West African boy memorial Morrison's self-released album ''The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs'' was produced by the artist herself, with performances and additional mixing by Nick Duffy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilks |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Wilks |date=2022-04-27 |title=Angeline Morrison, The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs - a review |url=https://tradfolk.co/music/reviews/angeline-morrison-the-brown-girl-and-other-folk-songs/ |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Tradfolk |language=en-GB}}</ref> Her album ''The Sorrow Songs'' (2022), produced by Eliza Carthy, takes a series of stories from Black British history and situates them in the tradition of British folk music.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilks |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Wilks |date=2021-12-16 |title=Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs Interview |url=https://tradfolk.co/music/music-interviews/angeline-morrison-sorrow-songs/ |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=Tradfolk |language=en-GB}}</ref> The album's first song, 'Unknown African Boy (d.1830)' is told from the perspective of the mother of an eight-year-old West African boy, who was washed up on shore on the Isles of Scilly, when the slave ship ''Hope'' was wrecked there.<ref name="Cartwright" /> Morrison performed the song on ''Later... with Jools Holland'' in 2022.<ref>{{cite web | title=Angeline Morrison - Unknown African Boy (d.1830) (Later with Jools Holland) | website=YouTube | date=15 October 2022 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnahOo1GBo | access-date=16 October 2022 }}</ref>
==Discography== ===Solo albums=== * The Ambassadors of Sorrow, ''Easterly''. 2009. * The Ambassadors of Sorrow, ''There Is No Ending''. 2011. * ''Are You Ready Cat?''. Freestyle Records, 2013. * ''The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs''. Self-released, 2022. * ''The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience''. Topic Records, 2022. * ''Ophelia''. Self-released online, 2022. * ''Ophelia''. Re-released on CD and vinyl, 2024.
==Collaborations== * Lack of Afro, ''This time''. La Baleine Distribution, 2011. * The Mighty Sceptres, ''All hail the Mighty Sceptres!''. Ubiquity, 2015. * We Are Muffy, ''The Charcoal Pool''. Tapete Records, 2018. * We Are Muffy, ''Lost Things Returning''. Country Mile Records, 2024.
===with The Rowan Amber Mill (as Rowan : Morrison)=== * as Angeline Morrison and The Rowan Amber Mill, ''Silent Night Songs for a Cold Winter's Evening'', 2014 * Rowan : Morrison, ''Fields of Frost'', 2019 * Rowan : Morrison, ''In the Sunshine We Rode the Horses'', 2019 * Rowan : Morrison, ''Lost in Seaburgh'',2020 * Rowan : Morrison, ''Bride of the Wintertide'', 2021 * Rowan : Morrison, ''In the Sunshine We Rode the Horses'', 2022 (Extended Double Album version)
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Angeline}} Category:Living people Category:21st-century British folk musicians Category:Academics of Falmouth University Category:Alumni of the University of Plymouth Category:British women folk musicians Category:English people of Jamaican descent Category:English people of Scottish descent Category:Cornish folk musicians Category:Cornish folk singers Category:Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands Category:Year of birth missing (living people)