My old pal and musical collaborator, Alex Swailes, died on Wednesday, 19th February 2025.

Funeral

The funeral will be held on Friday 14th March.
Click here for full details of the FUNERAL.

Alex requested that any memorial tributes be made in the form of charitable donations to the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering.
Details for DONATIONS can be found here.

Archive

The page links below will take you to to the downloadable material I have accumulated over the years.

• Recordings

Archive recordings from Northumbrian Night concerts held as part of the Alnwick International Music Festival.

• Northumbrian Repertoire

PDFs of the words and music for all of the songs featured in the archive recordings (and many others from Alex's repertoire)

• My Tributes

A tune (The Gadgy's March) and a poem (The Bottby Conundrum) both written in honour of Alex.

• Musical Memories

  When Alex was 90 in 2023 Anne Swailes and I compiled "Ninety Years of Fun", a very large book of photographs of Alex's very fun-packed life. Some extracts from that book are included here, along with some photographs from concert performances.