Angeline Morrison

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Angeline Morrison is a British musician, songwriter and academic who plays many instruments. Her mother is Jamaican and her father is from the Outer Hebrides. She went to her first folk club at 17 and became active in the Midlands music scene. She lives in Truro, Cornwall. She makes music on her own and under the name The Ambassadors of Sorrow. She is part of two duos: We Are Muffy with Nick Duffy and Rowan: Morrison with The Rowan Amber Mill. She also sings with the freakbeat band The Mighty Sceptres, with Nick Radford who has worked with her as Frootful. Her self‑released album The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs was made by her, with additional mixing by Nick Duffy. Her 2022 album The Sorrow Songs, produced by Eliza Carthy, uses stories from Black British history in the folk tradition. Its opening song, Unknown African Boy (d.1830), is told from the mother’s view of a West African boy who washed ashore on the Isles of Scilly after the wreck of the slave ship Hope. Morrison performed that song on Later... with Jools Holland in 2022.