
An established songwriter and musician, Ray is also well known in Yorkshire for his appearances on regional television and weekly BBC Radio Sheffield broadcasts featuring his own and other writers' poetry. Born in Rotherham of Irish parents, he still lives and works in the town and tries in his songs to bring the two cultures together; Irish and South Yorkshire; contemporary songs in a traditional idiom. Ray's debut album, Broad Street Ballads (NMCD17) was immediately featured on BBC Radio 3's
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Song For David
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The Long Song Line
Baghdad-On-Dearne
Manvers Island Bound
The Fields Of Foggydew
The Melting Shop Chaps
Young And Easy
March Of The Daffodils
Ordinary Copper
Things To Say
The Navvy Boys
The Collier's Elegy
Well
Pudding Burner
The Longest Hot Summer
Rother Sing A Don Song
The Merry Music of the Minstrel Man
Calling Joe Hill
Yorkshire Colliery
Harry Appleblossom
The Balladmaker's Apprentice
The Last of the Alley Gaters
Thurnscoe Rain
Moonpenny Hill
Along the Don Water
Mild Imaginings
Dark Disbelief
The Endless Knot
Valleys of Virtue
January Snows
The Kid Who Killed the Milkman
The Hales Of Henry Street
Hearts of Steel
Nil By Mouth
Old Blokes
Rhapsodies for Watt's Chippy
The Architect
Hurtle Through a Portal
The Old Trincomalee
That 'Un and This 'Un
Holm Flatt Street to Holm Flatt Street
For the Love of Tom
Looking for Daniel Grubb Wheeler
The Quinn Twins and Harrison
By Way of Abdy
The Hall of Fish
Melting Shop Chaps
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