Links

Yes, I know. Everyone does it! But these are links to sites belonging to people or places I know (not all artists) whose work I genuinely admire and whose sites I thoroughly recommend you to visit. And to prove I’m not just sticking them in with a hope that they might reciprocate the favour, I’ve included my reasons for recommending them. After all, everyone is entitled to my opinion!

Rob Steinke

www.robsteinke.com

Rob is an artist/craftsman born in Richmond, England, but now living here in Ireland. For anyone interested in Celtic art & design, (or saddlery) this is definetely worth a visit, and you will get to meet Rambo!!!

Harvington Hall

www.harvingtonhall.com

Harvington Hall is the stately home near Birmingham, England that Alicia & I helped run for 8 years. The site is worth a visit, but the house itself is BRILL!!! Especially if you have children. I won't give away any of the ‘secrets’ but if you ever get the chance to visit the place, they’ll be talking about it for months afterwards.

MEMF

www.memf.org.uk

Sometimes known to philistines like myself as ' Manifestly enthusiastic musical fanatics' but correct name, Midlands Early Music Forum. A fantastic group of people from the English midlands who gather, sometimes in very large numbers in marvellous places like Kinver's medieval church to play, sing, and in many fantastical ways indulge their love of beautiful early music.They are also old friends of ours from Harvington Hall and thoroughly wonderful people to know!

Diabolus in Musica

www.diabolus.org

Last it may be, but definitely not the least, and not just because it’s Paul Baker designing and generally twiddling the dials for me on this site, (although you’ll have guessed by now that there’s nothing I like better than a good grovel at the feet of greatness!) This group play early English music in Elizabethan costume on an amazing array of weird and wonderful instruments with incredible names, some of which I can’t even pronounce. But in addition to that this is one of the most informative & brilliant sites I’ve ever come across!