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The Valley's Girl

by Cheryl Beer

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The Valley's Girl 04:23
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Red, Red Rose 02:04
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Autumn of My Life 06:51
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Blackbird Singing in the Red Berry Tree 00:49
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Born in the Seasons 02:20
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We Love the Trees 01:34
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What Did You Wear On Your Wedding Day? 04:25
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Cuban Heels 02:48
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The Enigma 01:26
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Time 00:34
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Mr Pickles 00:31
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Write my name on the face of time 01:29
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Take Care Lord 02:22
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about

Back in 2008, I was invited by Head for Arts to be a Song Consultant for a mammoth Community Festival across 4 Counties: Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen & Caerphilly, called 'Festival of Four'.

My role was to meet as many of the community as I could, across these 4 counties. In total, I met and worked with over 800 people.

Then back home in my West Wales studio, I composed and recorded a collection of songs based on the life experiences of the people living in the Valleys in relation to the colloquialism 'Valleys Girl'.

I wrote the lyrics applying their conversational texts and perspectives.
This is a writing technique I have developed since first applying it at the age of 16 in a theatre group. It is called Ethnographic Poetics but I did not realise that until much later, when I was studying for my MA Drama in my forties. I have come to understand that there is usually a posh name for the things that come naturally to humans.

I composed 31 songs in total. These were submitted to the inspirational Artistic Director, Chris Durnall, who took the lyrics to apply as script text in the 4 productions.

I was invited to perform some of the songs at the 4 festivals & some of the tracks were used as backing for digital stories.

But many of the songs were not used as I had written far more than were needed.

I had forgotten all about these songs until I was putting my Music Archive together. I couldn't believe what an enormous body of work it was.

The Valley's Girl is my choice sample of the tracks.

It does not feel right to put a price on the Album but if you download it, it would be kind for you to donate what you can afford and this will be given to my Sound Memories Dementia Friendly Project to assist with recording Rural Sound Maps for those who can no longer come outside.

Likewise if you use the songs for any community projects please credit the work and put a link to my bandcamp page.

The Copyright of the songs remains with me as the writer.

credits

released July 2, 2016

All songs written by Cheryl Beer in partnership with Head for Arts and the Communities within which the project was based.

Sound Engineer: Jeff Beer

Cheryl Beer: Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Drums, Piano, Keyboards, Programming.

Jeff Beer: Lead Guitar, Bass


Photograph by Jeff Beer

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Cheryl is now an Environmental Sound Artist & Composer @ www.cherylbeer.com

However, she is often asked about past work before her hearing loss & so this site serves as an archive to some of her favourite projects..

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