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Faerie Fire Dances

This 2020 album consists largely of songs inspired by Blossom’s connections with the Radical Faeries – an indefinable worldwide collective of Queer nature-loving souls.

Some of the songs were auctioned as bespoke songs, some written by other Faeries, some just have a spiritual or Queer slant, and some are not Faerie songs at all, other than being sung by one. Marc has a host of very talented friends playing alongside him, including Simon Dumpleton, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Gina le Faux, Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews, and Martin Simpson.

“…a cast like that does not pin its colours to the mast of any ship other than the most seaworthy” – Dai Woosnam, Living Tradition

Faerie Fire Dances was partly crowd-funded, with the generous help of Shokti, Diana Wilson, Helen Garvey, Paul Swift, Andrew Smith, Julie Hindley, Edwin Beasant, Rob Rhead, and many others, to whom Marc is very grateful.

Faerie Fire E.P.

Faerie Fire is the E.P. by Marc Block, ahead of the release of the album, Faerie Fire Dances, with five stunning songs, including three bonus tracks not on the album.

Folk singer, songwriter and Radical Faerie Marc said “It’s taken me more than two years to make the album Faerie Fire Dances, and it won’t be released until October, so I wanted to let people have a taster a bit sooner. Lots of people helped me get it made with crowdfunding, and they deserve to wait no longer! I’m really pleased with these recordings – I’ve got lots of amazing guest artists on here, and Tom’s done a great job of pulling it all together.”

Produced by Tom A Wright (Albion Band, Sweet Visitor Band, The Magpie Arc) and featuring Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Simon Dumpleton, and Gina le Faux, the Faerie Fire E.P. comprises the title track by Marc, I’ve Got it Bad (Elton’s Song) by Tom Robinson and Elton John, Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan, Sudden Waves by Les Barker and Ronald Jamieson, and Red & Green by Robb Johnson.

Brisk & Breezy (2016)

*The making of Brisk & Breezy was partly crowd-funded, with the kind assistance of Hugh Miller, Ian Brown, Priscilla and Dragonfly, Shokti, Paul Swift, Juliet Woodin, Peter Wood, and many others.

Listen to My Young Man

This album revisits the “jaunty acoustipop” of Marc’s former band, Marc Block and the Breezes (later Marc Block Trio). Marc has overdubbed his own voice, guitar, bouzouki, harmonicas and percussion, with further backing vocals by Rachel Delicata, and double bass by Martin Bentley. It’s an exuberant collection of mostly original songs, with a couple of reworked traditional songs and a couple of covers, and includes new recordings of some old favourites from his younger days.

The Hawthorn Spring (2103)

Listen to Windswept Islands

With Seth Tinsley (guitar), Elly Lucas (fiddle and viola), Alex Cumming (accordion), Jay Leivers (guitar), Will Pound (harmonica), Roy Bailey (backing vocals), Lucy Ward (backing vocals).

One Year From Now (EP, 2010)

Listen to Mary Hamilton