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  • Toni Bunnell is a singer-songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist.

She writes all her own songs and accompanies them on the guitar, Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, bouzouki, hurdy gurdy and fiddle.

The English singer Toni Bunnell earned rapturous applause in the Jazz Cellar..creating the thought-provoking atmosphere which is the essence of her performance  Mannheimer Morgen Rheipfalz, Germany (Harlekinade Festival)

Toni Bunnell possesses one of the best voices I’ve ever heard from a traditional style singer             ROCK ‘N’ REEL

One seriously beautiful singing voice    Ian Almond (Musician)

NEW album: Tracking the Changes

‘This is a very mature and thoughtful collection of songs and tunes from an exceptional songwriter and very talented musician. Toni is an excellent storyteller who blends both traditional and modern themes together. Her observations are thoughtful, often reflective and relevant. I particularly liked Breaking News, Toni’s take on the 9/11 tragedy, and Space to Breathe, a song she wrote during lockdown.’ Stan Graham

RNR review of Tracking the Changes ****

Issue 102, November/December 2023

‘Before encountering the work of Toni Bunnell, I thought hedgehogs were flat things that lived on roads. Now I know those spiky-top Mrs Tiggy-winkles of the hedgerows have a champion in this wildlife biologist and author of Rescuing the Disappearing Hedgehog. That she accompanies her own trad-flavoured songs on guitar, harmonium, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer and hurdy-gurdy, on a series of respected albums, is but further evidence of her remarkable talents.

On Tracking the Changes four dexterously authentic traditional instrumentals meet with ten new, direct, issue-driven compositions with Come All Ye chorus structures, delivered in a resilient voice weathered by experience. These songs are populated by the universal soldiers who ‘march in hope and innocence’ to the clarion call of the pipes; as well as the squire in his hall and the child chimneysweep; as seeds fly over the divisive Berlin Wall in defiance of political boundaries; to the stark pictures of the polluted ‘Waterways of England’, a powerfully moving lament for this disenchanted age.

These are songs that respect ‘the spirit of people throughout the world’, songs that remind us to ‘move to the future but remember the past’. Tracking the Changes is a living heritage.’

Andrew Darlington

Movie: Playing the hurdy gurdy in Brittany with Pepere my friend’s dog. Click on image of hurdy gurdy at top of page.

        Where I Come From                                    In Solidarity

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Last Port of Call

Eight CDs available:

In Solidarity

Where I Come From

Special People

Nothing More to be Said

Tune on a Shady Bench

Last Port of Call

Heart to Home

Tracking the Changes

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M&K Update

New CD with twelve original tracks written and performed by Toni Bunnell

Heart to Home

Don’t Pass Me By

Story of Agnes

Through a Hedge Backwards

Comes the Hour

Gifted

Streets of Hamelin

Music in my Soul

The Lights of Keighley

The Grenfell Disaster

The Dark Wood / Bourree a Malochet

Looking Back

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New Single Track Download: In Solidarity

An original song with a strong message in support of France.

Click on image to download track.