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Oliver "Oli" Steadman is a British-South African multi-instrumentalist.




Stornoway


Steadman is a founding member of Stornoway and through them is a volunteer with many nature conservation trusts including HIWWT, RSPB, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Woodland Trust, and British Trust for Ornithology.




365 Days Of Folk


In 2024 Steadman started 365 Days Of Folk, a spin-off of Jon Boden's A Folk Song A Day, featuring daily recordings of traditional music, mostly with guest vocalists. The songs thus far have included:

500 Miles featuring DG Solaris (aka Laish)
Willie o Winsbury featuring DG Solaris
Andrew Lammie featuring Amanda MacLean
Apple Wassail featuring Katy Ryder
Captain Ward and the Rainbow
Old Brown's Daughter
Peggy Gordon featuring George Washbourn
The Snows They Melt the Soonest featuring Matt Sage
Lowlands of Holland featuring Catherine Earnshaw
The Last Leviathan
Some Tyrant Has Stolen My True Love Away
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
My Son John
The Moon Shines Bright featuring Sandra Manning Jones
Rolling Down to Rio
Cold Blow and the Rainy Night featuring Liam Rickard
She Moves Through the Fair featuring Matt Sage
False Knight on the Road featuring Greg Hooper
January Man
Daddy Fox
Old Brown's Daughter
Peggy Bann
Pilgrim on the Pennine Way
Otago
In the Month of January
Off to Epsom Races
Ruins by the Shore
Days Gone By
Smugglers Song
Maria's Gone
The Cuckoo
John Ball
I Drew My Ship
How Can I Keep My Maidenhead featuring Daisy Chute
Ballina Whalers
Banks of the Nile
Anachie Gordon
Dark as a Dungeon
Sheffield Apprentice
Won't You Go My Way
Clyde Water
Lough Erne Shore
When First I Came to Caledonia
King Henry Was King James' Son
Young Simon John
Cupid's Garden
Donkey Riding
The Green Fields of America
Springfield Mountain
Billy Don't You Weep for Me
Dalesman's Litany
Take This Hammer
Farewell Sweet Lovely Nancy
Plains of Mexico
Weavers Daughter
Corduroy
Sweet Mossom
The Bold Fisherman
Wife of the Soldier
Swansea Barracks
Worcester City
Willie's Lady
The Four Angels
Lakes of Pontchartrain
The Derby Ram
Oor Hamlet
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
Fiddler's Green
Sir Patrick Spens
The Maid and the Palmer
Cap o Las Fawr
A Pilgrim's Way
Grey Funnel Line
The Shoals of Herring
Bird in the Bush
Over the Hills and Far Away
I Sowed the Seeds of Love




Other projects


Steadman has worked as a studio producer for artists including Nick Cope, and as composer / musical director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, also serving as manager to many artists,including Willie J Healey, The People Versus, and Balloon Ascents / NEVERLND.
In 2013 Steadman founded Count Drachma, who were invited to play at festivals from WOMAD to WOOD to Festival N°6, co-headlining London's Southbank Centre with the Mahotella Queens, and filming a documentary with The Guardian's Education channel.
In 2014 Steadman founded music-tech startup Tigmus, with Stornoway's touring trumpet player Thomas E Hodgson.
Since 2015 Steadman has been endorsed by Aria Bass Guitars, touring with 2x basses Detroit 313-DR & Detroit 313-BB, and recording with FEB-F2/FL or a Mexican Fender Jazz Bass. All are strung with roundwound strings except the Fender, on which Steadman has played with exclusively flatwound strings since 2009.
In 2024 Steadman established "Traildance".




References






External links


Oli Steadman on Twitter

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Oli Steadman
• Stornoway (band)
• Donkey Riding
• Steadman (name)
• Peter Bellamy
• 500 Miles
• She Moved Through the Fair
• The Moon Shines Bright
• The Shoals of Herring
• Cold Blow and the Rainy Night (song)