An Archive. Singer / songwriter / writer / outsider / poet / photos/ Collecting life's strange things, and a Book for sale. ‘A dream needs a head, a river needs a bed, and a nut needs a shell.’
My roots stand within 2 World Wars. War 1- when my Grandmother gave birth in 1918 and died a day later, and my own birth
Part 3 Front Garden Couldn’t afford to remove concrete, so bags of stones, and loads of Bulbs, a Bay Tree, Herbs & Barrels.
My songs. Wishing for a safer humane and compassionate world then, & now! My Lyrics and thoughts at the time, 1980s/1990s Life is a struggle
Blue Monk Thelonious Monk A photo of Monk’s Hands by John Hoppy Hopkins. My words to The Thelonious Monk tune, Blue Monk © Feeling complete
Words, & observations. 1 Joy 2 Pain 3 Mantra – 4 a summing up. It helps to sing it, write it, dance it out. Photo
All Saints Sessions. A little Film / Alastair Gavin vimeo.com/356433656 . A Film of the event. Alastair at my piano, underneath the hands of Monk.
The Albany Deptford, 19th September www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/the-singers-tale/ With Annie Whitehead Winston Clifford Alison Rayner Jessica Lauren & Carol Grimes A hub for artists, communities and creative
IAVMT A Review for The Singers Tale + a track. EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY A Review of “The Singer’s Tale” by Carol Grimes February 28, 2019IAVMT Practitioner
A Garden for my health, heart & mind. Part 1. The back garden! Spring 2010 A garden begins! Weeds, Brambles, concrete & broken fences. Railway
A Documentary set in Folkestone and London
Photo above Kasia Hrybowicz Ageing and the rest. Micheal Kemp took this little extract from My Book, The Singers Tale, condensed it into a song
The Singers Tale- A day of music & devising, plotting and imagining. May 2019 Alastair Gavin I met Alastair at Folkestone Central. On our way
Margate, a week in May 2019 Introducing – London’s Listening Jazz Club – DAVID MOSSMAN A Day for David in Margate- bitter sweet – so
A gruesome carpet, worn bare in the middle with a garish pattern of red, orange, green and god knows what else, the colour of sick, hangover nausea sick.
Track Book The Singers Tale My generation, 1944 – ? + A soundscape, ‘I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, that hath but
Being 75! In Wales With the singing tree With Kasia & Harvey in Bangor & Angelsea Conwy & Llandudno & with Sarah in Folkestone at
Being 75 in Wales with Kasia & Harvey With my phone, I recorded the little Bay. The waves and the breeze, I wish I could
My songs – Carol Grimes.© The Dance. Ford /Grimes The Dance. © A live recording 2019 London. The Dance. Verse 1 I imagine that
A book. A Documentary Carol Grimes. Photo Kasia Hrybowicz https://studio.youtube.com/video/O5xuOdK1qV0/edit Some loverly reviews. CG xx “……you write incredibly well ~ most descriptive and a sense
My writings on voice and the mind & body Carol Grimes. © Dynamics. THE HUMAN VOICE To describe a person as having a dynamic
Carol Grimes. Ain’t that peculiar? & ‘Fashion Passion’. © Photo above – Sheila Burnette. I always loved a Hat! Title: AIN’T THAT PECULIAR produced by Micky Gallagher
Singing for your life An introduction + A track Within the practice of Voice, Creative Arts & Movement, addressing the problems, which a person may have
+ A track Photo above Kasia Rose Hrybowicz London Tales: Round Midnight In the picture above a painting and a photo of Monk’s hands playing
Nervy Nora. The photo above Kasia Rose Hrybowicz Nervy Nora – one from my collection of others, the voices that dwell inside, a pernickety persona.©
My Belt . Crockett & Nashville + a track below Rehearsing in Nashville. I have always loved the ordinary things, finding a beauty in them,
My love for Oscar Brown Jr. Featuring Dorian Ford Jennifer Maidman and Phil Harper & myself, Carol Grimes at Lauderdale House Highgate London Oscar Brown
Two interviews & some reviews Preview/Interview: The Singer’s Tale London Jazz News, 13th February 2015 Link: www.londonjazznews.com Carol Grimes was one of the very first
My Generation 1944 – A track Picture Lewisham 1952 Jennifer and
London Tales. 4 songs with dance in my heart at the time of writing… in Bethnal Green London E2 & Deptford SE8 © I love
My Folkestone Garden
An extract from The Singers Tale Nothing like feeling old and in the way. On a crowded high street, a gang of
Finding my Grandmother.
Lush Life. Billy Strayhorn, One of my favourite Songs. TracklistHide Credits 1 Solitude Written-By – Ellington*, DeLange*, Mills* 7:18 2 Never Say Never Written-By –
Sing voices. Sing voices, sing stories, tell it like it is I wandered lonely as a cloud – but the cloud was full of electrical
A clip from a BBC show Soul Britannia Cool Fire Water Cool Fire Water © Jesse’s drinking and talking wild again beating out her life
Choirs. 3 Sing for Joy Bloomsbury @ St. Pancras St Pancras Station.
A Documentary. Singers Tale Documentary.pages Barry J Gibb Barry J Gibb http://www.londonjazznews.com/2017/12/interview-film-maker-barry- j-gibb-new.htmpol0i 29 March 2017 · I’m thrilled that the London Independent Film Festival