Jo Freya

Sally Barker, Jo Freya and Fi Fraser
Photo: Bryan Ledgard · CC BY 2.0

About the artist

Jo Freya (born Jo Fraser on 4 December 1960) is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist (soprano and tenor sax, clarinets, traditional whistles), and composer. She was Artistic Director of the Nation Youth Folk Ensemble from 2023 to 2026. Fraser changed her name to Jo Freya as a condition of joining the actors' union Equity, which does not allow two of its members to share the same name. She performs mainly folk music and world music and is part of the bands Blowzabella

Top songs

  1. The Unquiet Grave
  2. All Things Are Quite Silent
  3. Lovely Joan
  4. Sweet England
  5. As Sylvie Was Walking
  6. Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man
  7. A Blacksmith Courted Me
  8. As I Set Off to Turkey
  9. General Wolfe
  10. Lord Franklin
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  1. Though I Live Not Where I Love
  2. Geordie
  3. Rounding the Horn
  4. The Green Cockade
  5. A Sailor's Life
  6. Fourpence a Day
  7. The Broomfield Wager
  8. The Carnal and the Crane
  9. There Was a Lady All Skin and Bone
  10. The Streams of Lovely Nancy
  11. Bold William Taylor
  12. Female Smuggler
  13. A Thief Can Too
  14. Roses
  15. Edwin In The Lowlands Low
  16. Marvellous Companion
  17. Little 'o'
  18. Josephine Butler
  19. Claire Connor's Lament / Diary Diary
  20. Chasing Water
  21. Different Shades Of Meaning
  22. Bois Tortu / Gavotte Montagne
  23. Oh America
  24. Lynedoch Place / Pardon Kolloreg
  25. Musicport
  26. Green Grow the Rushes Oh
  27. Braw Sailing
  28. Rattling Roof Tiles
  29. Waltzing up the Stairs
  30. Song for Leon
  31. Everybody has a Tale
  32. Thyroid Jig
  33. Broomfield Wager
  34. Midnight Feast
  35. Bold William Taylor, folk song
  36. Though I Live Not Where I Love
  37. Gorges du Dailley
  38. All things are quite silent, for voice & piano
  39. Lynedoch Place, Pardon Kolloreg
  40. Bois Tortu, Gavotte Montagne
  41. Claire Connor's Lament, Diary Diary
  42. No Better Friends
  43. A Blacksmith Courted Me
  44. The Bird
  45. Dazed
  46. Closing of the Day
  47. Migrating Bird
  48. May Butterfly
  49. Sweet England, folk song
  50. The Blacksmith
  51. Party Games
  52. Long Vacation
  53. Song For Thirza
  54. Some Old Salty
  55. Together
  56. Lynedoch Place /Pardon Kolloreg
  57. Claire Connor's Lament / Dairy Diary
  58. Fish Frenzy
  59. Autumn Leaves
  60. Never Mind The Pollocks
  61. Nimbus
  62. Special Tea
  63. Road Rissole
  64. Same Old Salty
  65. Maids when you're young never
  66. Baby Can I Hold You
  67. A thief can to
  68. The Weakness In Me
  69. Yeta
  70. Maids When You're Young (Never Wed an Old Man)
  71. Drowned In Your Eyes
  72. Fourpens A Day
  73. Wilson's Arms
  74. Flight og the Pelican
  75. Bath Time
  76. Foolish One
  77. Stumbling on
  78. Migration Bird
  79. The Lady All Skin and Bone
  80. Maid's When You're Young

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