Lostwithiel Concerts

🎶 Tamsin Elliott - Bold, beautiful, and boundary-pushing - her spellbinding sound in Lostwithiel.

The Lostwithiel Concert Series is all about bringing exceptional live music to our corner of Cornwall. Each season, we host a range of artists whose work spans folk, classical and world sounds.

This autumn/winter, we’re excited to welcome musicians who are not only outstanding performers but also thoughtful, boundary-pushing artists. One of those is Tamsin Elliott — a multi-instrumentalist, composer and filmmaker whose music bridges folk traditions with global sounds and personal stories.

“A new British talent” – The Guardian

Tamsin is a folk musician, composer and film-maker based in Bristol, UK. With roots in the dance tunes of the British Isles, her interests and playing styles extend to European and Middle Eastern musics as well as experimental and ambient sounds. Her “beautiful, filmic compositions for accordion, harp, whistle and voice” (The Guardian) are rooted in tradition, whilst pushing boundaries and exploring minimalist, neoclassical, sound art and other non-traditional formats.

Her debut solo album FREY, which features the playing of Sid Goldsmith and Rowan Rheingans, was released to critical acclaim on Penny Fiddle Records in June 2022. In this work Tamsin explores themes of limbo, pain, healing and acceptance, reflecting on the microcosm of her personal experience of chronic illness alongside wider themes of societal disconnection and environmental grief. Her forthcoming record The Meeting Tree celebrates connection, nature and the joy of sharing tunes with friends.

“[FREY] is a very human record in which the many cross-cultural influences magnificently coalesce to transcend hardship and distress” – Songlines

“Such music can offer clarity while the chaos of life threatens to engulf us” – KLOF magazine (previously Folk Radio UK)

“Tamsin Elliott’s debut album, FREY, is, in a word, sublime. Few albums this year have taken us on such a magical journey” – Tradfolk