Biography

• A lecturer in sound design for film, television and radio at the university of salford in greater manchester uk.
• A folk music performer with the old swan band, ryburn 3 step, chris coe, our northern branch
• A freelance sound recordist and audio post production editor - available for low budget and sometimes no budget productions.
• A researcher into social dance music of the 18th and 19th centuries with The Village Music Project
• The coordinator of a support group for the archive of the well regarded folklorist and collector Doc Rowe.
• Director of the Paul Graney Archive Project, soon to be an online audio archive of recordings made in the NW of England in the 50's, 60's & 70's as part of a larger project called 'The Common Genius'
• Director of Folkopedia, a new and growing online folk encyclopedia
• A local radio broadcaster with a folk show on Phoenix FM in West Yorkshire
• On the National Council of the English Folk Dance and Song Society where he sits as vice chair with responsibility for promotional activities
• A trustee of the vaughan williams memorial library and its home, cecil sharp house
• A folk recording artist and producer with an extensive discography to his credit