- We'll keep this section updated as and when tour dates, or new interviews or web clips are recorded. If you'd like to hear or read a little more about Bill, here are a couple of website links for you to try out.
News and Interviews
Click Here to listen to Bill's August 2003 appearance on Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Click Here to go to the BBCi Folk & Country's review of Two Year Winter, which was the site's "Album of the Week" in August 2003. There are downloadable Real Audio clips of From My Window and The Story of Our Darling Grace.
News from 2004
Bill's latest album, Two Year Winter was released in July 2003. You can read the reviews, and find out more about the album on the Two Year Winter page. It is available direct from Brick Wall Music by mail order, and is also being distributed by Proper Music Distribution, who do a great job getting Bill's CD's into the shops.
Musicians featured on the album include Miranda Sykes (double bass, harmony vocals), Sarah Wright (flute, whistle, harmony vocals), Dave Wood (guitar), Stewart Hardy (fiddle), Paul Jayasinha (flugelhorn, 'cello), and Keith Angel (percussion). Despite all these musicians, the feel of the album is fairly delicate and acoustic, with the instrumentation of Panchpuran but the folky quality of Turn to Me. Two Year Winter is named after one of two tracks Bill has co-written with Anne Hills. Bill and Anne first started working together in October 2002 when, along with Aoife Clancy, they toured in the USA as The Faire Winds.
Two Year Winter continues to get airplay on a variety of national and local radio stations, including Radio 2's Bob Harris, Mike Harding and Desmond Carrington shows, and Radio 3's In Tune and Late Junction Shows. We'll keep this page updated with any radio interview and session dates.
Like Bill's first and second albums, Turn to Me and Panchpuran, Two Year Winter is released by Compass Records in America, Canada, Australia, Japan and Benelux. Compass are doing a brilliant job in selling Bill's CD's and getting them onto international radio stations, and the first song, Eamon Friel's From My Window has been licensed from Compass by Japanese Airline JAL for their in-flight radio station.
The first UK Faire Winds tour was a success, taking in 15 dates including arts centres, venues and Bromyard Folk Festival in September 2003. We hope you managed to catch one of the concerts, and would like to say a big thank you to The Arts Council of England for supporting the tour and making it all possible. The Faire Winds are Bill, Anne Hills and Aoife Clancy, and they are continuing to work together, touring in the USA (and possibly the UK) in summer 2004.
Three singers from three countries, all renowned solo artists in their own right, The Faire Winds are: Bill Jones, Anne Hills, a singer-songwriter from Michigan now living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who has toured extensively both solo and in collaborations with artists including Tom Paxton and Michael Smith. Aoife Clancy, formerly lead singer with Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies, is originally from Tipperary, Ireland, but has lived in Boston for eleven years. Aoife's third album, Silvery Moon, was released in October 2003 on the Appleseed record label.
News from 2003
Bill's latest album, Two Year Winter was released in July 2003. You can read the reviews, and find out more about the album on the Two Year Winter page. It is available direct from Brick Wall Music by mail order, and is also being distributed by Proper Music Distribution, who do a great job getting Bill's CD's into the shops.
Musicians featured on the album include Miranda Sykes (double bass, harmony vocals), Sarah Wright (flute, whistle, harmony vocals), Dave Wood (guitar), Stewart Hardy (fiddle), Paul Jayasinha (flugelhorn, 'cello), and Keith Angel (percussion). Despite all these musicians, the feel of the album is fairly delicate and acoustic, with the instrumentation of Panchpuran but the folky quality of Turn to Me. Two Year Winter is named after one of two tracks Bill has co-written with Anne Hills. Bill and Anne first started working together in October 2002 when, along with Aoife Clancy, they toured in the USA as The Faire Winds.
Two Year Winter continues to get airplay on a variety of national and local radio stations, including Radio 2's Bob Harris, Mike Harding and Desmond Carrington shows, and Radio 3's In Tune and Late Junction Shows. We'll keep this page updated with any radio interview and session dates.
Like Bill's first and second albums, Turn to Me and Panchpuran, Two Year Winter is released by Compass Records in America, Canada, Australia, Japan and Benelux. Compass are doing a brilliant job in selling Bill's CD's and getting them onto international radio stations, and the first song, Eamon Friel's From My Window has been licensed from Compass by Japanese Airline JAL for their in-flight radio station.
The Faire Winds
The first UK Faire Winds tour was a success, taking in 15 dates including arts centres, venues and Bromyard Folk Festival in September 2003. We hope you managed to catch one of the concerts, and would like to say a big thank you to The Arts Council of England for supporting the tour and making it all possible. The Faire Winds are Bill, Anne Hills and Aoife Clancy, and they are continuing to work together, touring in the USA (and possibly the UK) in summer 2004.
Three singers from three countries, all renowned solo artists in their own right, The Faire Winds are: Bill Jones, Anne Hills, a singer-songwriter from Michigan now living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who has toured extensively both solo and in collaborations with artists including Tom Paxton and Michael Smith. Aoife Clancy, formerly lead singer with Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies, is originally from Tipperary, Ireland, but has lived in Boston for eleven years. Aoife's third album, Silvery Moon, was released in October 2003 on the Appleseed record label.