Live To Your Living Room - Jim Causley

More than simply a folk singer, multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, musician and proud Devonian Jim Causley is an all-round entertainer. Over the past decade, he has been nominated no less than six times for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award, including being nominated Singer of the Year at the 2017 Awards, and also won the Spiral Earth Singer of the Year Award in 2014.

Jim has presented his own folk music show on BBC Radio Devon, created the music for BBC TV show ‘Highwaymen, Outlaws and Villains‘, and performed on the BBC Countryfile Dartmoor Special. In 2017, he composed the soundtrack for a BBC film about his relative, the celebrated Cornish poet Charles Causley. The Charles Causley Trust also commissioned him to create a new album of Causley’s children’s poems set to music for a new generation to discover as part of the Causley 100 celebrations. That resulted in the ‘I Am The Song’ album, released on the WildGoose label.

Since the release of his debut album in 2005, Causley’s unique voice and persona have helped him become one of the most well-loved and respected figures of today’s contemporary roots and folk scene. A prolific collaborator, Causley is hugely admired for his work with iconic groups The Devil’s Interval and Mawkin:Causley as well as playing, touring and recording alongside Waterson:Carthy, John McCusker, Eddie Reader, Graham Coxson, Shirley Collins, Michael
Morpurgo, Show of Hands, Kate Rusby, David Rotheray of Beautiful South fame and many more.