News - Cliff Stapleton

The Duellists – English Hurdy-Gurdy Music – CDs available

There is a limited supply of The Duellists CD album for sale on my Bandcamp site – https://cliffstapleton.bandcamp.com/album/the-duellists. This features original music by...

HURDY-GURDY WORKSHOPS in the Netherlands and south Germany

This Spring I will be teaching in the Netherlands to semi-advanced hurdy-gurdy players at the “Workshopweekend” hosted by Stichting Draailier...

Review from The Living Tradition

http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/webrevs/wb001.htm CLIFF STAPLETON & FRIENDS – The Tumbling Of Creatures Woodbird WB001 I don’t know about you, but for me...

Malashevska – a Macedonian tune composed by Stojan Lazarov

Chris Gunstone (bouzouki), Cliff Stapleton (hurdy-gurdy), Paul James (bagpipes) playing in Covent Garden, London in 1981. This picture was taken...

First Review

On the 20th August, a review of The Tumbling of Creatures by Uwe Schneider was published in the alternative arts...

Letterpress font for new CD front cover

The front cover artwork for ‘The Tumbling of Creatures’ uses unique metal block fonts from the letterpress studio of Graham...

New album out now

Cliff Stapleton & Friends present… The Tumbling of Creatures The edition comes in a deluxe, four-panel, handmade concertina-style wallet, silk-screen...