Florence (2020)
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- Cypress Trees
- Unloving Love
- Florrie’s Lorry
- Pedestal
- Idle Women
- Statistics Save Lives
- Mr Daly
- Living Water
- Words
Description
This album was written in 2019 as part of my touring production ‘Florence: the lesser known life and legacy of Florence Nightingale’ and it was recorded during the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. The nine original tracks relate to the themes of Florence’s work which continue to resonate today. Pedestal questions who we commemorate in public space and why, whilst Statistics Save Lives refers to Florence’s life-long work as a pioneering statistician. Mr Daly has been described as a ‘folk rap’ and it explores Florence’s decades as a social justice campaigner whilst Living Water draws directly from one of Florence’s hundreds of reports through which she spoke truth to power calling on the British government for equal access to healthcare and sanitation for all people in India.