Wren Music
In 1983 we set up Wren Music, bringing together our passions for English folk music and working with communities.
Wren is still going from strength to strength, with offices in Okehampton, twelve members of staff and a pool of freelance workers.
We still work for Wren, and have reached the time to hand over the bulk of the work to our [younger!] colleagues.
To find out more about our team, visit www.wrenmusic.co.uk
Brief appreciations of Marilyn and Paul
“Marilyn Tucker and Paul Wilson open the show with vocals and guitar. Tucker and Wilson have been singing together for 30 years, and comfortably create a warm atmosphere, presenting old folklore and traditional songs to the audience. With their music and poetry, they bring an old romanticised world of pastures, lost loves and sentiment through songs collected from their travels and their friends.”
~ Cygnet Theatre concert, Exeter.
“As far as I know, there’s no-one else like them, doing what they’re doing in the community, to the extent that they’re doing it. They’ve used music to create community and they’ve used community to create music.”
~ Peggy Seeger
“Most memorable of all was the way in which Marilyn, Paul and Jim’s music threaded its way through everything - I have been playing 'From Shore to Shore' whenever I want to recall the genuine happiness that permeated our celebrations. How wonderful to have given such riches to so many; we are all in your debt.”
~ Peter Beacham – Chair, Devonshire Association
The Devon-Newfoundland Story - concert tour with Jim Payne
“Paul and Marilyn are the perfect illustration of the fact that the more of yourself that you give, the bigger you become. Every memory of Paul and Marilyn is linked to their total dedication to fighting for everything worth fighting for peace, freedom, human dignity, an end to racism, an end to war. They never do this as a sort of soppy, soft-centred do-goodism. They do it with music and words that set hearts ablaze.”
~ Mervyn Bennun, founding trustee of Wren Music
Wren is still going from strength to strength, with offices in Okehampton, twelve members of staff and a pool of freelance workers.
We still work for Wren, and have reached the time to hand over the bulk of the work to our [younger!] colleagues.
To find out more about our team, visit www.wrenmusic.co.uk
Brief appreciations of Marilyn and Paul
“Marilyn Tucker and Paul Wilson open the show with vocals and guitar. Tucker and Wilson have been singing together for 30 years, and comfortably create a warm atmosphere, presenting old folklore and traditional songs to the audience. With their music and poetry, they bring an old romanticised world of pastures, lost loves and sentiment through songs collected from their travels and their friends.”
~ Cygnet Theatre concert, Exeter.
“As far as I know, there’s no-one else like them, doing what they’re doing in the community, to the extent that they’re doing it. They’ve used music to create community and they’ve used community to create music.”
~ Peggy Seeger
“Most memorable of all was the way in which Marilyn, Paul and Jim’s music threaded its way through everything - I have been playing 'From Shore to Shore' whenever I want to recall the genuine happiness that permeated our celebrations. How wonderful to have given such riches to so many; we are all in your debt.”
~ Peter Beacham – Chair, Devonshire Association
The Devon-Newfoundland Story - concert tour with Jim Payne
“Paul and Marilyn are the perfect illustration of the fact that the more of yourself that you give, the bigger you become. Every memory of Paul and Marilyn is linked to their total dedication to fighting for everything worth fighting for peace, freedom, human dignity, an end to racism, an end to war. They never do this as a sort of soppy, soft-centred do-goodism. They do it with music and words that set hearts ablaze.”
~ Mervyn Bennun, founding trustee of Wren Music
