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Sheila Graber

from Howay The Lasses by Howay The Lasses

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sganimation Because they have taken my life in animation and transformed it into something amazing - through poetic lyrics and magical music..thankyou!
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  • A beautifully packaged and high quality printed album companion booklet presented with carefully curated artwork designed by Annie Ball. Against a backdrop of historical maps that relate to each character, each album companion comes with full information for our Howay The Lasses songs and stories. As you listen to the songs read about the background to each of the women or organisations we've written about, linger over the lyrics and find out more about how we came to collaborate together. The package also includes a A4 poster from our photoshoot for the project taken on location at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland.

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We were delighted and honoured that artist and animator Sheila Graber came to see us play live in Hexham during October 2022. As a result of hearing the song we'd written about her life's work she made a beautiful video to accompany the song which (with her permission) we've included here along with the track. Thank you Sheila for sharing your amazing gifts and skills and inspiring so many.

lyrics

Frame by frame, scene by scene
Tiny fragments come to mean
Much more than their separate parts
Brought to life by your skill and art

A labour of love
Imagination
Just so stories on your dining room table
Beauty and poise
Stop then motion
A world of wonder in your animation

Frame by frame, scene by scene
Shapes and lines they start to seem
More like real and moving things
Your hobby brought to the national screen

A labour of love
Imagination
Just so stories on your dining room table
Beauty and poise
Stop then motion
A world of wonder in your animation

From testing movements, throwing shapes
The tiny little changes everything makes
To watching felines, insight brought
Into how an elephant walks

For even with, an animators eye
You can never tell until you try
Being lost in creative space
Where creatures roam and Paddington plays

A labour of love
Imagination
Just so stories on your dining room table
Beauty and poise
Stop then motion
A world of wonder in your animation

The river runs, and the time it yields
The colours that pour through your house in Shields

credits

from Howay The Lasses, released October 18, 2022
Words & Music by Gareth Davies-Jones
Copyright © Gareth Davies-Jones / First Music Publishing 2022

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Howay The Lasses Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

The North East of England is rich with the discoveries, achievements and successes of women from all strands of life - from writers, and reformers, to animators and engineers. Some stories are known to a degree - others not at all. Musicians Annie Ball, Katie Tertell, Bronwen Davies-Jones and Gareth Davies-Jones have teamed up on "Howay The Lasses" to tell them out loud through original song. ... more

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