Venereum Arvum

about

Venereum Arvum are the husband & wife duo of Rachel McCarron and Sean Breadin focussing on the harmonious beauties of folk song & balladry from the English speaking traditions & beyond. No remit as such, other than to do what we do, by way of exploration, experience & celebration. Singing the old songs is like living in old houses, ever respectful to the builders, the previous occupants, and to those countless grubby hands that have polished the banisters; but there's no going back, even though we might rip out the additions of the sixties & seventies & brick up the open planning to get back to a more timeless idea of structure. Minimal on arrangements & instrumentation, concentrating on drones & modality, performed using a diversity of folk instruments such as Black Sea Fiddle, Indian Harmonium, Electronic Shruti Box, Appalachian Dulcimer, Hungarian Citera and Medieval Welsh Crwth, the music of Venereum Arvum is '...as historically timeless as it is vernacularly universal...' Rachel has been singing all her life, with passions encompassing folk, country and classical, holding an impressive CV in all respects; a gifted instrumentalist on guitar, mountain dulcimer and piano she is just as likely to be found singing the ballad of Tam Lin as she is her own compositions or the songs of Laura Nyro. Sean is a seasoned traditional singer and storyteller specialising in a wide variety of weird and wonderful instruments, whose compositional work has been featured on Resonance FM an

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albums

John Barleycorn Reborn

We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold

Hail Be You Sovereigns, Lief And Dear: Dark Britannica III

John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth

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Infernal Proteus (4CD)

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Infernal Proteus

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John Barleycorn Reborn - Dark Britannica

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John Barleycorn Reborn - Part 3: Rebirth

Hail Be You Sovereigns, Lief And Dear

Infernal Proteus (A Musical Herbal)

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John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Britannica

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John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth, CD2

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