Grace Will Lead Me Home tells the story of two men whose lives followed astonishingly similar paths, but whose experiences were astoundingly different. Both became revered and influential celebrities in the campaign for the abolition of slavery. One was a slave trader. The other was a slave.
The show is inspired by one of 2024’s most critically-acclaimed folk albums, Grace Will Lead Me Home, which featured in Mojo’s and The Morning Star’s Top Ten.
It is the latest chapter of Jon Bickley’s three-year Arts Council-funded project on the significance and contradictions of Amazing Grace and years of research into Black Folk Music in Britain by Angeline and Cohen.
Angeline Morrison is among the most significant voices in folk music. She has studied the history and experienced the legacy of the unexamined past of Black Folk Music in Britain.
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is a maestro. His concertina playing has lit up concerts as part of Granny’s Attic, a solo performer and in collaborations with artists such as Reg Meuross and the Sorrow Songs Band.
Jon Bickley is a songwriter, folk singer, and a poet, the presenter of The Invisible Folk Club radio show and podcast. Among his recordings is an album of Newton’s Olney Hymns.
John Palmer is a narrator and script writer. He produced, scripted and narrated the stories of Sabine Baring Gould for last year’s Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk tour with Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes.
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