Happy Birthday
Folk Pop Version

Beth is a well-known cellist on the UK folk and acoustic music scene and is a prolific songwriter. She plays and sings with Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band, Beth Porter and the Availables, Red Carousel (String Quartet) and is one half of The Bookshop Band with her husband Ben Please. They much of their time writing songs inspired by books and playing them in bookshops and book festivals across the UK, Europe and the States. They have made fourteen albums and are currently recording a new album with Pete Townshend of The Who.

Beth and Ben have written the musical score for the new Aardman Animation Robin Robin out on Netflix on 27th November 2021. They also wrote music for the audio book of Jackie Morris’ The Unwinding. Other film credits are Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) and BAFTA winning animation The Eagleman Stag (2010).

In the pop world she has toured with Newton Faulkner, The Heavy and Peter Gabriel and has worked with hundreds of producers and engineers such as John Parish, Boo Herwerdine, Tchad Blake and Stuart Bruce for recording sessions over the last 20 years. Artists include The Proclaimers and Petula Clark as well as Maximo Park and Enter Shakiri.

She also writes songs under her own name and has also made an album under the band name Marshes. Beth’s own songs are characteristically quirky, charming and ethereal and carried by Beth’s pure and unaffected voice. She has been likened to Cat Power, The Beatles, REM, This Is The Kit, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Radiohead, The Incredible String Band and The Kinks. With a classical background, a venture into folk music, and a love of simple pop songs, there’s nothing quite like Beth’s songwriting.

Beth lives in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and plays a 1794 Ferdinand Gagliano cello

Beth Porter’s Website
The Bookshop Band
Lost Words Spell Songs Website