Listed in this section are as many songs & pieces of music with “Suffolk” in the title that I have been able to find. There are undoubtedly others out there that have been missed. If anyone knows of any not included below, please email details to info@planetsuffolk.com

Whatever your musical tastes, be it classical, folk, jazz, rock, pop or dance, there is something here for everyone.

See also:

The Suffolk Harvest Home Song

The Suffolk Miracle - A Ballad

The Politick Maid of Suffolk; or, the Lawyer Outwitted - A Ballad

Sweet Suffolk Owl - A Poem

Suffolk Suite - Doreen Carwithen: The British classical composer Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003) was born in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. From 1941 she attended the Royal Academy of Music, where she met composer & conductor William Alwyn, who began to teach her composition & would later become her husband. Her overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) was premiered at Covent Garden in 1947. She also wrote a Concerto for Piano and Strings (1948), the overture Bishop Rock (1952), plus scores for more than thirty films such as Wilderness (1948), Boys in Brown (1950) & East Anglian Holiday (1954). She also wrote the score for the official film of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Her Suffolk Suite was written in 1964 at the request of the music master at Framlingham College, Suffolk, to be performed when royalty came to open their new concert hall. The suite is in four movements:

I. Prelude: Moderato

II. Orford Ness: Allegretto grazioso

III. Suffolk Morris: Ritmico

IV. Framlingham Castle: Alla marcia

The tunes are developed from music she had originally composed for the film East Anglian Holiday.

After her husband’s death in 1985, Carwithen founded the William Alwyn Archive and William Alwyn Foundation to promote his music and facilitate musical research projects. She died in January 2003.

The Suffolk Suite can be found on the album Carwithen: Concerto for Piano and Strings/Bishop Rock/ ODTAA/Suffolk Suite which dates from 1997. The album features Howard Shelley on piano, together with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox.

Suffolk Air and Suffolk Punch - Humphrey Lyttlelton: Suffolk Air and Suffolk Punch are two short jazz instrumentals by Humphrey Lyttelton (1921-2008), the famous English band leader, trumpeter and clarinetist. The Humphrey Lyttelton Band were formed in the late 1940s, at first playing traditional Dixieland & Ragtime, but later moving into mainstream jazz. The band continued to perform until shortly before Lyttelton’s death in 2008.

From 1967 to 2007, Lyttelton presented The Best of Jazz on BBC Radio 2.

Suffolk Air appeared on the b-side of the 78 single The Dormouse, released in 1951 on the Parlophone label. It can also be found on a number of albums, such as Snag It, The Best of Humphrey Lyttelton, Classic Years and In The Spotlight.

Suffolk Punch was originally from the album Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band released on the Society Records label in August 1965.

These pieces were probably inspired by Lyttelton’s frequent visits to see his father, who lived in the Suffolk village of Grundisburgh from 1945-62.

The Witchbottle of Suffolk - Peter Ulrich: The 2005 album Enter the Mysterium by English songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Peter Ulrich features The Witchbottle of Suffolk. Ulrich, who is from Perivale in London, was a member of the 1980s band Dead Can Dance. His first solo album Pathways and Dawns was released in 1999.

Witch bottles or witchbottles probably came into existence during the Middle Ages. They were traditionally used to keep the hair, nails or bodily fluids of someone (i.e. a witch) that, it was thought, had put a curse on another person or property. Alternatively, the bottle would be filled with pins, needles, rosemary & red wine. It would then be concealed in the structure of a building (or buried outside), as it was thought to draw in & trap evil spirits & witches, thus preventing curses & malevolent magic spells harming the building’s occupants. One of the earliest descriptions of a witchbottle comes from Suffolk & is described in Joseph Glanvill’s Saducismus Triumphatus, or Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions, which dates from 1681.

Ulrich’s Witchbottle of Suffolk is a seven & a half minute brooding atmospheric tale, which conjures up magic & sorcery with a dark medieval feel.

Suffolk Down Upon the Night - The Court And Spark: Taking their name from an album by Joni Mitchell, the folk rock/psychedelic band The Court & Spark were based in San Francisco, California. Suffolk Down Upon the Night first appears on the bands 2004 album Witch Season, with a live version appearing on The Court and Spark Live at Schubas 11/09/2004. Formed in 1998, the band issued five studio albums, before disbanding in 2007. The nucleus of the band revolved around Scott Hirsch, Alex Stimmel, James Kim & M.C. Taylor.

The Ballad of the Suffolk Five - The Simon Hopper Band: The Ballad of the Suffolk Five is a folk song that sympathetically explores the story of the murders of five women in Ipswich during late 2006 (see The Ipswich Murders 2006, on the Ipswich, England page of www.planetipswich.com). The track, by the Simon Hopper Band, appears on the album The Less Blessed, dating from 2008. This same topic is the subject of another song Girls of Ipswich Town by the folk duo Sedbuskers (see Ips Misc. page on www.planetipswich.com).

Simon Hopper was born in Dublin and brought to England in his first year. He later became immersed in the London folk scene at the now defunct Bromley Acoustic Music Club where he hosted several notable folk singers as well as emerging as a singer/songwriter himself. In 2006 he formed his four-piece band of himself on acoustic guitar, Leigh Trowbridge on electric guitar, Andee Price on electric bass and mandolin and John Fisher on drums. All four provided vocals. Under the name of The Simon Hopper Band they only released two albums (A Land for the Many 2007 and The Less Blessed 2008). From 2009 the artistes went their own way. Simon Hopper was still performing in 2017, but is now semi-retired.

Suffolk Girl - Skelter: Skelter were a New York City based group, much influenced by British bands such as The Beatles, The Who, T-Rex and Oasis, with a hint of punk thrown in. Suffolk Girl features on their first album, Boomstick, which dates from 2004. The band comprised singer, guitarist and songwriter Michael Wright, bassist Greg Ross and drummer Nachie Castro. The Suffolk in question is Suffolk County, NY. They released only one further album in 2007 (Sip O’ Tea for the Devil) and performed at a few gigs until 2010. They have not performed any gigs together since that year. Michael Wright and Nachie Castro have concentrated on their editorial jobs (for which they are both more famous), and Greg Ross in 2020 was playing in the Epic Tantrum group.

Skelter was only formed when three New York City comic-book workers were asked to throw a one-off show for 200 of their fellow employees in late 2001. The three built a reputation over the following two years as one of the best live acts in the City.

Michael Wright is a comic book editor. He began his career in 1996 working for Marvel Comics and by 2001 was employed by DC Comics where he met Nachie Castro. Both eventually became part of the senior editorial staff. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, and features numerous iconic heroic characters, most notably Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (see entry in Wikipedia). Michael Wright remains with DC Comics, but Nachie Castro moved to Disney Publishing in 2008 which bought Marvel Comics in 2009. The Nachie Castro Books is part of the Disney Book Group. Nachie is the main writer behind the Spiderman stories. He is also a voice actor, particularly known in the video game “Batman:Dark Tomorrow”.

The name ‘Skelter’ was taken from the Beatles song Helter Skelter from their 1968 album and written by Paul McCartney to create “a sound as loud and dirty as possible”. He frequently sings it at his concerts. This name is derived from an older English adverb meaning “in a disorderly haste” which the group felt epitomised their beginnings. The Beatles’ recording is considered to be a key influence in the early development of ‘heavy metal’.

Suffolk Punch - Andrew Huang: The instrumental track Suffolk Punch features on the dubstep-influenced album Droop by Andrew Huang, which was released in November 2012. Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in London in the late 1990s. Huang, however, is from Toronto, Canada. He is described as a multi-genre multi-instrumentalist who also works in video & social media. A prolific composer, he has created over 600 songs & pieces of music since 2004, & is a well known personality on YouTube. His other albums include Summer, Console & Lip Bomb. Why this piece has been named Suffolk Punch is not known.

Suffolk - Mike & Billy Nicholls: Suffolk, by Mike & Billy Nicholls, can be found on the 2008 album Rosslyn Road. Singer, songwriter, producer & musical director Billy Nicholls is from London. His first album was Would You Believe dating from 1968. As well as recording several more albums since then, he has also written songs for many other artists such as Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Justin Hayward, Kiki Dee, The Chieftains & Phil Collins. He has also worked as a producer for The Who & Elton John.

The folk album Rosslyn Road was made in collaboration with Billy’s brother Mike, as well as featuring contributions from Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains.

The lyrics to Suffolk, which clocks in at under two minutes, are printed below. They give no clue, however, as to why this song is so named, although the fact that Mike Nicholls lives at Sudbury, Suffolk, may be relevant.

Suffolk

When I saw you

Twas like I’d seen your face

Long before that day

When I saw you

Twas like a love that once lost

I’d found again

I knew my search was over

Then you were gone

And left me here

Alone in the garden

But I can see you standing there

When I saw you

When I kissed you

I felt the winter chill

Cold against your cheek

When I kissed you I felt our souls entwined

Soon to be released

And it will last forever

Though you have gone

And left me here

Alone in the garden

But I can feel you standing there

When I kissed you

Suffolk’s March/Jig - Bill Smith: Suffolk’s March/Jig is a short piece that features on an album entitled Many A Good Horseman: Traditional music making from Mid-Suffolk recorded 1958-1993. This 78 track Various Artists compilation set, spread over 8 CDs, was released in 2012. The recording begins with a spoken word introduction. This is followed by essentially two separate tunes (Suffolk’s March followed by an unnamed jig). The “Suffolk’s March” is actually known as “Speed the Plough” and it was the regimental quick march of The Suffolk Regiment (now part of the Royal Anglian Regiment), hence its title. This is an old folk-song dating back to the 15th century and was sung by the ploughmen on Plough Monday (the first Monday after the twelve days of Christmas). The Jig is a solo harmonica piece by Bill Smith (1898- ? ). He was a renowned harmonica and accordion player of the folk music of Suffolk who lived his whole life at Walsham-le-Willows in that county.

Suffolk - Emmanuel Dunn: Also from a Various Artists compilation, but in a very different vein from the entry above, is Suffolk by Emmanuel Dunn. It appears on Jack de Molay Presents Spring Best Tek n' Tekno, released on Hollister Records in 2011. As the album title suggests, this instrumental named Suffolk is a house/techno style piece which runs for just over six minutes. Emmanuel Dunn is a DJ & record producer based in Cefalù in Sicily.

From Suffolk with Love and Suffolk Punch - The Broadside Boys: Comprising Mat Bayfield (vocals & percussion) & Eric ‘Sedgey’ Sedge (vocals, guitars & percussion), the Broadside Boys were from Saxmundham in Suffolk, England. Two songs with “Suffolk” in the name can be heard on their website www.thebroadsideboys.com, Suffolk Punch & From Suffolk with Love; the latter being a live recording at the BBC. Suffolk Punch is a song celebrating a Suffolk character who likes to use his fists, whilst From Suffolk with Love is a tribute to Suffolk servicemen serving in war zones overseas.

The Broadside Boys first played together in 2012 and soon made an impact on the folk scene, releasing their first album under their stage-name in 2016 (this did not contain the ‘Suffolk’ songs). In 2017 the pair embarked on a mammoth 100-date tour, but tragedy struck when Mat Bayfield had to stop three-quarters of the way through because of ill health. Sadly, he was diagnosed with a rare, inoperable brain tumour to which he succumbed on 2 October 2019. Eric Sedge went on to become a successful solo performer. However, he joined with Richard Digance to produce The Suffolk Song - see further below.

A Suffolk Memory: A Suite of Impressions for Piano - William Ferris/Justin Kolb: A Suffolk Memory: Suite of Impressions for Piano was written in 1986, by Chicago based choral conductor and composer William Ferris (1937-2000), & was inspired by his time at the Aldeburgh Festival, in Suffolk, England, at which he & his 24-voice professional choral ensemble, the William Ferris Chorale, had been invited to perform by Sir Peter Pears. A Suffolk Memory appears on the album Solo Piano Music (2004) by Justin Kolb, which features a number of Ferris’s compositions dating from the period 1962-99.

Pianist Kolb is originally from Indiana but is now based in New York. He has performed as a soloist with, amongst others, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic & the Amernet String Quartet. As well as Ferris, Kolb has also premiered works by Robert Starer, Peter Schickele, Paul Alan Levi, John Downey & Robert Cucinotta.

The suite A Suffolk Memory is in eight parts:

I. The Sea, at Dusk

II. The Parish Churchyard, at Night

III. High Street, Noon

IV. Sunday Morning, from the Terrace

V. Saint Edmund’s - Southwold: Concert Day

VI. The Maltings, Snape: Festival House Fanfares

VII. The Red HouseVIII. The Sea, by Moonlight

Suffolk Skies - Kurt Hartle: Suffolk Skies is the title track to Kurt Hartle’s debut album. Composer & producer Hartle, whose style is mainly classical but with hints of jazz, comes from Southwold in Suffolk, England. The album Suffolk Skies was released in June 2013 & consists of piano solos and ensemble pieces. The music is relaxing & romantic in character, & is described as being inspired by the fertile & beautiful East Anglia region. At just over four minutes long, the track Suffolk Skies opens the album.

You’re Gonna Love This Song About Suffolk - The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Towns: You’re Gonna Love This Song About Suffolk is a one minute forty six second song from the album Virginia Is Good and Yes, Va by The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Towns. The album (released in February 2014) features 71 short songs, each about a different town or city in Virginia. Other songs include Song About Virginia Beach, Uh Huh!; Oh Yeah! Hampton, Va; You Gotta Go to Waynesboro & Woodbridge, Virginia. Such a Nice Place!

The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Town, real name Matt Farley from Massachusetts, has released a number of albums in similar vein, all consisting, as his name suggests, of short, rather strange songs about towns & cities in Great Britain, Canada, Australia & various US states. These include These Songs Are About Canada Places; New York State Nice Places Ny Song Yes!; Texas City & Town Song Fun, Tx; These Australia Places Deserve These Nice Songs & English England, British Britain, Uk, Great Song!

According to the song You’re Gonna Love This Song About Suffolk, Suffolk, Virginia has bike trails, railroads (“you can ride your train on them”) & a lot of bridges. North Main Street gets a mention, as does Interstate 664. Suffolk also has “a good local government”, “a lot of nice people living in it” & is “such a nice location”.

Suffolk’s Most Wanted - Diabolic (Feat. Ra the Rugged Man): The rapper known as Diabolic (real name Sean George) is from Huntington Station, a hamlet in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. The 3 minutes 35 seconds long Suffolk’s Most Wanted is from his 2014 album Fightin’ Words, and also features fellow rapper R.A. the Rugged Man (real name R.A. Thorburn). As with many songs within the rap genre, Suffolk’s Most Wanted contains explicit lyrics that some people might find offensive. An instrumental version of the song is also available on the album Fightin’ Words Instrumentals.

Suffolk Song - Peregrine North: Peregrine North is the name of a band fronted by guitarist and singer Rachel Shrader. Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, she grew up in upstate New York. She formed the band Peregrine North in Fort Worth, Texas in 2013 and currently resides in northeastern Pennsylvania. The name “peregrine” means ‘coming from another country’ or ‘foreign’ and Rachel adopted this name because, as she has dual nationality and continually moves her residence, she feels she is always in transition and is never at home.

Peregrine North’s music is heavily influenced by British folk and rock music of the 1960s and 70s. Suffolk Song features on the band’s eponymous debut album, released in March 2015. Suffolk Song is a gentle, folk inspired tribute to Rachel’s county of birth. The opening lines are:

“I come from a place where the sun first awakes

I come from a place where the sea meets the sun”

Miniature III: Suffolk - Ghost-Land: Fifteen Miniatures is an experimental/electronic album by Ghost-Land. Released in 2015, as the title suggests, this is an album of fifteen very short instrumental tracks, the majority of which clock in at under one minute (Miniature III: Suffolk, at 1 minute 16 seconds, is the second longest track on the album). With names like Miniature VI: Alarm and Miniature XI: Rhododendrons, no other track on the album is named after a specific location.

This band was formed in 1998 by several backing musicians of Sinéad O’Connor, built around the London-based trio of John Reynolds (record producer and drummer), Justin Adams (guitarist) and Caroline Dale (cellist). They were all formerly studio musicians working as instrumentalists for other artists. John Reynolds was the first husband of Sinéad O’Connor; she contributed the vocals on the debut album. They wrote their own material and enlisted the help of studio vocalists to realise their vision, the most prestigious of course is Sinéad O’Connor. This Dublin born singer-songwriter has been acclaimed internationally for her music, and she is also a prominent spokesperson about her sexuality, social and political views, about her spiritual journey (she is an ordained priest), activism, as well as her trauma and mental health struggles.

Ghost-Land released two more albums: Interview with the Angel (2001) and Guide me God (2002), the latter becoming an international dance floor hit after being remixed by Junior Vasquez. After that each of the artistes went their own way, either performing solo or joining other similar collaborationist groups.

The Lion of Suffolk - Malcolm Williamson: The Lion of Suffolk is a piece of music for solo organ, composed by Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003). Born in Sydney, Australia, Williamson studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before moving to London in 1950. In 1975 he was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music, a position he held until his death. He was awarded the CBE in 1976 and was also made an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1987. He died in Cambridge, England in March 2003.

The Lion of Suffolk is a tribute to Benjamin Britten (see Suffolk, England page) and was premiered on 10th March 1977, at the Benjamin Britten Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey. It appears on the album Malcolm Williamson: Organ Music, released in 2014 and featuring organist Tom Winpenny.

White Wash And Pig’s Blood (Suffolk Pink) - Jack The Stripper: This is a track on Black Annis, the debut EP released in 2009 by hardcore band Jack The Stripper.

Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2007 “with a singular vision of playing the most extreme music possible”, the band comprises Luke Frizon on vocals, guitarists Julian Renzo and Adam Harris, Tim Anderson on bass and drummer Max Reps. The band released their debut album Raw Nerve in 2013.

Reviews of the band’s live performances state that they “have been assaulting audiences everywhere with their fierce and innovative brand of chaotic hardcore, a relentless work ethic and an atypical, ferocious on-stage prowess”, and that “Jack the Stripper’s live show is a boundary-pushing, total sensory-inclusive, interactive extreme experience. It is one of the most incredibly intense live shows you will ever see and the band is on the road to becoming one of Australia’s most recognised extreme music acts.

”The name White Wash And Pig’s Blood (Suffolk Pink) obviously refers to the ancient process of mixing blood with whitewash to give the colour famously used to paint houses in Suffolk, England (see Suffolk Pink - Colour, below). Unfortunately, as with much of the music in the grindcore/hardcore/extreme metal genre, the lyrics are almost unintelligible, so what this particular song is actually about can only be guessed at. However, as many of the band’s lyrics relate to death/gore/satanic ritual, it seems likely that the reference to blood is the main attraction in using this as a title.

Between Suffolk Pink and Essex Blue and Suffolk Winds - Richard Harker: Two songs with Suffolk in the title by folk singer/musician Richard Harker. Between Suffolk Pink and Essex Blue is taken from the 2015 album of the same name, whilst Suffolk Winds is from the album An Englishman Ignored, also released in 2015. Suffolk Winds includes a mention of the village of Nayland, and with another of his albums being entitled Nayland a Cuckoo Crying, it would seem likely that Mr Harker is from this area along the Essex/Suffolk border.

Suffolk (Original Mix) - Paul Ritch: At nearly seven minutes long, the techno track Suffolk (Original Mix) can be found on Paul Ritch’s 2010 four track EP Canniballs. Paul Ritch is a Parisian producer and performer who has been on the techno club scene since 2007 and has now achieved global recognition, having performed on four continents. No reason for naming this instrumental piece Suffolk has yet been found.

Suffolk County 718 - Michael Mason: Suffolk County 718 appears on the 2016 album My Cactus Flower - Contemporary Piano by Michael Mason. As the album title suggests, this is a piece for solo piano. Other pieces on the album are also named after places with three digit numbers appended to them, such as Virginia 710, Natchez Trace 712, Scotland 713 and Stratford Upon Avon 715. Michael Mason (who on some of his other albums is known as Michael H Mason) is an improvisational American pianist and composer of jazz ballads. Which Suffolk County this piece refers to is uncertain.

Suffolk on a Sunday - The Ragtown Brothers: Described as “A unique blend of baroque pop, ragtime, and blues reminiscent of old American standards, the Beach Boys, Blind Willie McTell, and Nina Simone” the Ragtown Brothers comprise Nathan Dunton and Josh Morrow from Port Arkansas, Texas, who came together in December 2010. Suffolk on a Sunday is taken from their eponymous and only album, recorded in Texas and released in 2015.

Rather bizarrely, given the above information, the song’s lyrics make it clear that the Suffolk in question is Suffolk, England, with a range of typically English foods listed that you can get in “Ipswich, Woodbridge, Diss* or Framlingham”.

“Ragtown” was the early name for Amarillo, just 45 miles from Port Arkansas. Although we are not sure why they adopted this name, the pair never used it again although they continued to collaborate on musical projects using their real names, and individually both worked with other artistes. The latest recording released in November 2018 goes under the label “Nathan Dunton presents ‘The Cave Sessions’ with Leah Matthews and Josh Morrow”.

*(Diss, of course, is actually in Norfolk, not Suffolk).

Suffolk - The Traveller: The rock song Suffolk appears on the five track EP Uncensored Kingdom, Pt. III (Prelude), released in May 2016. The Traveller is actually Italian singer-songwriter Massimiliano Forleo, and the EP is part of a trilogy inspired and loosely based on the works of William Shakespeare. The Suffolk in question refers to the Earl of Suffolk, mentioned in Henry V, who dies at the battle of Agincourt.

Midnight’s Mass in Suffolk’s Breast - Blue Rose Code: Blue Rose Code is Scottish alternative-folk singer/songwriter Ross Wilson, whose work has been said to evoke “a meeting of Van Morrison and a young John Martyn, both shipwrecked with a bunch of Motown records.” Midnight’s Mass in Suffolk’s Breast is a Christmas song that appears on the four track EP Grateful, released in 2015.

Suffolk - Joc The Producer: Hip hop producer Joc (also known as Ja’Quez) is from Suffolk, Virginia. Suffolk, released in February 2018, is a rap built around the soul classic Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart), written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed and originally recorded by the Stylistics on their 1971 eponymous debut album. The version sampled on Suffolk is the later duet version by Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross, released in 1974 on their Diana & Marvin album. Suffolk County Line - The Low Cards: The Low Cards are a rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The line up is Dan Baker on guitar & vocals, Brian Jablonski on upright bass & vocals, and Matt Slobogan on drums & vocals. Suffolk County Line is a blues/rock track from their debut album The Low Cards, released in November 2017. The music on the album has been described as “dissonant guitar mayhem, bombastic pigskin pounding, and slap happy upright bass debauchery”.

Suffolk Pink - The Proprietor: Taken from the album For Nothing Is My Own, released in November 2017, Suffolk Pink weighs in at three minutes thirty two seconds of “Unapologetic and straight forward Black Metal”. The Proprietor are a duo from New York whose name is derived from a character played by Peter Cushing in the 1974 old Amicus horror anthology, From Beyond The Grave. Frank Fisicaro (guitar, bass and drums) and Sean Gabler (vocals and guitar) formed the duo in 2016 while they played in other bands, but quickly realised that The Proprietor was their main focus. According to the band, Suffolk Pink is about Boleskine House, on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland, where occultist Aleister Crowley lived, and where he performed many of his magic rituals.

Given the band’s interest in horror, this title seems to have been chosen due to the fact that the house was notable for being decorated in “a pale-pink stucco”. This would have appealed to Crowley who was probably aware that this colour was created by mixing pig’s blood with whitewash (see White Wash And Pig’s Blood (Suffolk Pink) by Jack The Stripper, above, and Suffolk Pink - Colour, below).

Boleskine House was built on the site of an old kirk (church) which according to legend caught fire and everyone inside was burnt to death. As well as Crowley, the house was also once owned by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. It suffered significant fire damage in 2015 and is now derelict.

There were no more releases after the above album, although the duo collaborated in 2019 with another Black Metal band, the Nascentum, on the album A Pact of Initiation, and then each went their own way and joined other groups.

Suffolk Summer’s Garden - Bryan Orwell: Bryan Orwell is a music teacher and semi-professional pianist/keyboard player from Kent, England. Suffolk Summer’s Garden is taken from his 2017 album Really Brown (which is an anagram of his name). At one minute twenty one seconds long, Suffolk Summer’s Garden is an instrumental piece for solo piano.

To Suffolk - girl in a gale: To Suffolk is taken from the 2017 album Right as Rain and is a six minute long electronics-dominated instrumental piece. girl in a gale (always spelt in lower case) is actually Clarissa Vincent, a saxophonist from Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, who is also a travel writer. For live events she employs an established jazz quartet, whilst studio recordings are made using professional backing tracks. girl in a gale make music “unconstrained by popular electronic dance music genres”. Other albums, which can be found on Spotify, iTunes, and many other online sites, include Suitably Lizardy, Blackcurrants and Animal Hands.

Felixstowe (Suffolk Original) - JayClectic: JayClectic are Jay and Mr.Eclectic who are house music Dj/Producers based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. According to their biography on Facebook, Mr.Eclectic was born in England, another source states that it was at Ipswich, which presumably explains the reason that the name of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England has been used for this track. It can be found on the EP In This House, released in July 2015.

Suffolk - Royal Coda: Royal Coda began as a trio from Sacramento, California, consisting of Kurt Travis, Sergio Medina and Joseph Arrington. At three minutes thirty six seconds, Suffolk is the final track on the group’s eponymous album, which was released in April 2018 and produced by Mike Watts & Dominic Nastasi.

Suffolk is basically an instrumental track, with just the breathed words “Home Sweet Home” being repeated in the background. The track begins with a sample of a recording by Amelita Galli-Curci, followed by instrumentation played over the natural sounds of a forested area where the album was being recorded in Suffolk County, New York.

The trio had experienced success with different bands before they formed Royal Coda in January 2018. Since then they have recruited a further two experienced members (Will Swan and Steffen Gotsch) and now form a five-piece group.

The Suffolk Song - Richard Digance and Eric Sedge: The Suffolk Song features on the album To Look For America, which was released in April 2018. To Look For America is a folk-roots musical written and performed by well known comedian and folk singer Richard Digance from Essex and Suffolk songwriter Eric Sedge (of the Broadside Boys) with additional music by Tom Leary.

According to the project’s website www.tolookforamerica.co.uk, “It’s the story of the first English Settlers that arrived in Jamestown, America, in 1607 told through music and narration as a production for theatres, arts centres, schools, colleges, plus cruise ship entertainment for ships that sail from England to America.

A multi-mediaproject consists of live theatre, Photo Movie, DVD and CD productions, book and artworks. It tells of the plight of Bartholomew Gosnold, founder of The Virginia Company of London, who left his Suffolk home to sail on Godspeed in search of America and its potential riches. This voyage happened many years before The Pilgrims left Plymouth.”

Bartholomew Gosnold was a lawyer, explorer, and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and also establishing Jamestown in colonial America. He also led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod. He was born in Grundisburgh in Suffolk, England in 1571, and died in Jamestown, Virginia on 22 August 1607.

A Million Acres (The Suffolk Song) - Soloists, Choirs & Instrumentalists of Suffolk: Released in May 2018, ahead of Suffolk Day (21st June), A Million Acres (The Suffolk Song) features over 1000 people from throughout Suffolk, England, including solo vocalists Christina Johnston, Polly Gibbons, Elaine Marsh and Andi Hopgood, as well as many choirs from across the county, plus instrumentalists Andrew Rayner, Jacob Woods, Mark Evans, David Scarlett, David Abbott, Hattie Bennett, Emily Bennett and Wendy Poulson. The song was written, arranged, produced and recorded by Andrew Rayner at Brook Studios in Felixstowe. A video for the song can be viewed on YouTube.

Snape Suffolk Olly - Andy McWain Ensemble: Released in September 2018, Snape Suffolk Olly is a single by the jazz ensemble put together by Boston, Massachusetts pianist/composer Andy McWain. McWain’s albums include Nerve, Temporary, Resemblance, Starfish and Live at Audible Think. Although it is not stated to what the title Snape Suffolk Olly refers, this is most probably the Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk, England, that has grown out of the Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten in 1948. This is now one of the leading international musical events that every August holds a series of concerts that culminates in the “Snape Proms” where folk groups, solo artists and the world of jazz meet. “Olly” could well be a well-known local publican whose name is Oliver. Andy McWain is currently a full-time Lecturer in Music at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he teaches jazz theory, improvisation, applied jazz piano, and a senior music capstone course.

Suffolk - Nicolai Dunger: Nicolai Dunger is singer/songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. His wide-ranging musical influences encompass blues, folk, jazz and soul. The former footballer has been active in music since the mid 1990s, recording many singles, EPs and albums. Suffolk is taken from his album Terror and Tradition, released in September 2018 on the Hi-Hat label. Most of the other titles on the album are in Swedish, so why the name Suffolk has been chosen for this instrumental three and a half minute long track is unknown

I Am Suffolk - AJ Rizzle: AJ Rizzle is a rapper from Suffolk, Virginia. I Am Suffolk is a track with explicit lyrics from his April 2019 album Last Will and Testament.

The Duke of Suffolk - Ethrel: The Duke of Suffolk is a song by the rock band Ethrel, taken from their 2019 album Old Flames. Very little information is available about this band at the moment, except that they seem to come from Funny River, a census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, USA. The reason for the reference to the Duke of Suffolk is also obscure.

Suffolk Samurai - Chubs: The rap song Suffolk Samurai is from the album Young Gorgeous by Chubs, released in December 2018. Chubs is a ’90s hip hop inspired artist from the Italian-American community on Long Island, New York, who has often collaborated in the past with another MC from the New York area named Blass 89.

From Suffolk to Canton - Carolino: Carolino is actually Jon Carolino, a solo ambient multi-instrumentalist from Virginia Beach, Virginia. The instrumental track From Suffolk to Canton features on the album Chosen, released in July 2018, which is inspired by Carolino and his wife’s journey through adoption after the pain of losing a child. Other albums by Carolino include Woven (2013), Ruins (2014) and Home (2015).

Suffolk Terrace pt 1 & 2 - Charlie Hijos Bastardos featuring Julius, Max: Released in July 2018, these two rap tracks, each clocking in at around two minutes forty five seconds, are available as downloads. Suffolk Terrace part 1 was first released in 2009 and Part 2 in 2018. Suffolk Terrace is sung in Spanish, German and English, although the lyrics give no clue as to the reason for the name.

For many, Hijos Bastardos has been the most relevant partnership that Spanish underground rap has seen. It essentially comprises a duo formed in 2002 by two of the leading rap artists in Spain: Charlie (Carlos Hernández) and Nasta (Pablo Simon Hernández). Both grew up in Madrid and first rapped together as kids in the plazas of Madrid. They both gained a reputation as individual rap musicians, and formed Hijos Bastardos to act as a sort of collective in which other rap musicians could react, usually forming a group of four. This gained them greater recognition and respect as part of the underground Spanish hip hop scene, with the majority of their releases coming through “loose tracks”, i.e. not yet compiled into an album. Hijos Bastardos only come together on a sporadic basis with long spells over a number of years when nothing is heard of them. Nasta is the most active of the two as an individual rapper whereas Charlie shuns publicity and seems to be a language teacher in his “day job”.

Suffolk (a) and Suffolk (b) - Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell, David Toop: These two tracks of electronic music by four English musicians originally appeared on the 1980 album Whirled Music, recorded live at the IKON gallery, Birmingham, the London Musician Collective, and at various outdoors venues during 1979. The album consists of performances made entirely with whirled and swung instruments and objects, such as the bullroarer, whirled whistles, hand drums, radios and microphones. Originally released on the Quartz label, the album was reissued in June 2018 on the Black Truffle label. Suffolk (b) also appears on the compilation album Black Truffle At 10, released in May 2019 to celebrates ten years of the label.

City of Suffolk - Angel Mone’t: At four minutes ten seconds long, this track features on the album Jack’s World, an album of children’s music released in February 2020 on the Rossy Records label. Angel Mone’t is from Boston, Massachusetts and describes herself as a music producer, teacher, song writer, singer, playwright, radio host and children’s entertainer.

Suffolk Riviera and Suffolk Palms - Local T: Released in May 2019, the electronic instrumental track Suffolk Riviera is from the album Coastal Breeze, released on the Pen Name label, based in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. Local T aka Henry Homesweet has issued a number of recordings under fifteen different names, including TRUTHR and 20AX (His real name is Tom Sherlock). Other pieces on the album also have an East Anglian flavour, such as Walton Boys, Next the Sea, and Peter’s Ice Cream (A local favourite, made in Ipswich since 1890).

Two years later, in May 2021, Local T released an album entitled Suffolk Palms, which includes a three minutes twenty nine second track of the same name. Other tracks on the album include Longshore Dreams, Sealand and Old Pier.

Arriving In Suffolk - Richard G. Mitchell: Arriving in Suffolk is a short orchestral piece from the original motion picture score of the 1992 film The Bridge. The Bridge is a film based on the novel of the same name by Suffolk born author Maggie Hemingway (1946-93) and directed by Sydney Macartney. It is set in the summer of 1887 in Walberswick on the Suffolk, England coast, and stars Saskia Reeves, David O’Hara, Joss Ackland, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Higgins and Geraldine James. The music for the film was composed by Richard G Mitchell, an English composer working primarily in the field of films and television. He is best known for his scores to the movies To Kill a King, Grand Theft Parsons, A Good Woman and the 1996 BBC TV series The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Suffolk Shit (feat. VanBlocc Shorty) and King of Suffolk (feat. Yung Maar) - Henni Pesos: These two tracks appear on the 2019 hip-hop/rap album No Autotune on the Chuccblocc Music label. Henni Pesos is from Cypress Manor, approximately thirty miles from Suffolk, Virginia.

Only in Suffolk - Aids Cannon: At less than two minutes long, Only in Suffolk is a song from the 2019 eponymously named four track EP by heavy metal band Aids Cannon.

This band was formed in the winter of 2014 comprising Nick Cordovano (guitar), Doug Perro (guitar), Brandom Adams (bass), ‘Eggie’ Mike Marsden (drums) and Peter Proto (who left the group in 2019). They all came from County Suffolk on Long Island, hence the title of this track. The band split up in April 2021.

Phantoms of Suffolk, Song of Suffolk and Song of Suffolk 2000 - Jancis Harvey: Three songs written by this prolific folksinger/songwriter who was born in Linton, Cambridgeshire and, as a child growing up in her native East Anglia, loved to holiday in the Suffolk coastal towns. This part of the world is reflected in many of her songs and stories. Her writing and singing began in the 1960s on the BBC Radio with some short presentations in word and song for the programme ‘Five to Ten’. This brought her TV work with late night epilogue presentations and from this followed concerts, cabaret, and the occasional summer season in the tourist towns of Britain. Also renowned as a Christian songwriter, she has given concerts in some of the largest cathedrals in the country and some of the smallest village churches, often working with the local schoolchildren as a special project.

By far and above the most successful of her songs is Lord of the Harvest which appears in many publications and is sung in schools and concerts all over. The track Phantoms of Suffolk is a piece relating to All Saints church in Chevington, Suffolk, and appears on her album From the Darkness Came Light (released 1979). The Song of Suffolk dates back to 1982 when Jancis was spending a quiet month by herself in her caravan at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. In the song she compares the tourist hotspots of the Grecian islands, Italy and Spain and concludes that she will “sing her song of Suffolk as the only place to be”. This was released in 1988 after she sang it on the ‘Five to Eleven, episode 2’ radio programme. In 1999 she moved to Kentford in West Suffolk and wrote an additional verse about nearby Mildenhall, hence her track entitled Song of Suffolk 2000 that appears on her album People and Places (released 2000). Jancis has several other albums to her name including Time Was Now, Words You Left Behind and People and Places.

Suffolk Song - Ian Woods: Born in Suffolk, England, Ian spent the first twenty years of his life absorbing the traditional country song and music from the folk-singers of the day. Moving to Cheshire in 1963 he was introduced to “folk clubs” and in 1967 started a club which is still running very healthily today. Over the years he has sung in the UK and much of Europe, appearing at folk festivals singing both traditional songs and his own compositions. After a spell in Poland, Ian moved back to England and lived in Oxford where he continued to perform where his heart really belonged - in the pubs and folk-clubs. Sadly Ian passed away in 2017.

The Suffolk Song was written by Ian and released in 1982 on an album titled Hooks & Nets that he recorded with fellow folk-singer Charley Yarwood. The song laments the passing of the old country ways when a ploughman worked on the land and then retired to the local pub for a well-deserved pint. In its place the land has been swallowed up by “pylons and factories” and the pub has been replaced by a “cocktail bar”.

Suffolk Song - Matthew Olyver: This is a piece written by Matthew Olyver for Bass Oboe and Accordion, and is a musical portrait of Stoke by Clare, Matthew’s home village in Suffolk, England. Stoke by Clare is a very simple, small but self contained village: some fields, a pub, some houses, a school and a village green. This piece is made up of just a few short and simple sections, just like his home village. It is a nostalgic expression from Matthew, who currently lives in central London, one of the most noisy places in the world in contrast to where his roots lie.

Matthew is an award winning composer (most recently, the 2019 Greater London Arts Society Composition Prize) whose music is regularly performed at music festivals by some of the leading orchestras, music ensembles and soloists in the world. With a significant background as a violist, Matthew has co-led the viola section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and now regularly performs his own music within the ensemble, the Olyver New Music Collective, which he founded in early 2019. This Collective plans to perform five concerts a year, usually in unconventional settings, such as a museum, an art gallery, a church, or a warehouse.

Matthew Olyver is also a passionate teacher of music theory, composition and viola/violin and he runs an extensive teaching practice in London.

A Suffolk Prelude - Ipswich & Norwich Co-op Band: This is a piece written for the band by Andrew Duncan and released on a CD of the same name in November 2006. Andrew Duncan is a Glaswegian who learned to play the trombone, euphonium and tuba, joining local brass bands before going off to study music at Napier University in Edinburgh and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Andrew went on to become a professor in music at various universities in England. In 2001 Andrew and his family moved to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where he now works as a freelance composer/arranger and conductor.

The CD comprises 17 pieces with a playing time of 77 minutes offering a variety of styles and a mini-concert all rolled into one collection. One of the pieces is A Suffolk Prelude at 6΄52. This is based around five traditional folk songs connected with Suffolk: ‘Nutting Time’, ‘Blackberry Fold’, ‘Cupid’s Garden’, ‘A Seaman’s Life’ and ‘The Bold Richard’. The conductor of the Ipswich & Norwich Co-op Band was Robin Norman. The recording was a celebration of the band being in existence for 25 years.

The band is based in Ipswich, Suffolk, and is a brass band. This is a musical ensemble consisting entirely of brass instruments and generally with a percussion section. It was originally formed in 1961 as the Ipswich Town Brass Band and, in 1982, was re-formed as the Ipswich Town Band. In 1985 the band merged with another Ipswich band called Connells Sounding Brass whose name was adopted. In 1992 the band was delighted to accept sponsorship from the Ipswich Co-operative Society and this entailed another name change to that of their sponsor. This sponsorship has continued, but subject to name changes as the name of the sponsor has changed over the years: in 2002 when two co-operative societies merged it became the Ipswich and Norwich Co-operative Brass Band; in 2005 further mergers resulted in the East of England Co-operative Society. The band changed its name a year later to the East of England Co-op Band.

For our non-British readers, the Co-operative Group, trading as the Co-op, is a British consumer co-operative with a diverse family of retail businesses including food retail and wholesale; pharmacy; insurance services; legal services and funeral care, with in excess of 3,700 locations. The concept of a retail organisation owned by its customers arose in 1844 in Britain. It is the largest consumer co-operative in the UK and owned by more than 4.6 million active members.

The band’s second album, Horizons, was issued in 2016.

You Put The Suffolk in Suffocating - Jordan Taylor Scaife: Jordan Taylor Scaife is a singer-songwriter from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with a bachelor’s degree in songwriting from Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts. Released in 2020,the lyrics of this two minutes fifty seven seconds relationship ballad reference Boston, revealing that the Suffolk in question is Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (See also Suffolkation/Suffolkated in the Names of Bands, Songs and Albums section, below.)

Pray 4 Suffolk (Outro) and So Suffolk - AJ Grant: AJ Grant is a rap artist from Suffolk, Virginia, who describes himself as a “Poetic lyricist, artist, writer, gamer, the most aspiring man on the planet”. Taken from the 2020 album Gallery, Pray 4 Suffolk (Outro) clocks in at two minutes fifty seconds long. At two minutes twenty seconds, So Suffolk is from the album Freestyles.

87 Suffolk - Xinxo Sr: Released in 2020, 87 Suffolk is a track from the album Who’s Your Slime!? by USA based Xinxo Sr. There is very little further information available about this artist at present, and no clue as to why the name Suffolk has been used.

Suffolk - Anti-Beast: Taken from the digital album The Queen Is Sexy, Suffolk is one of fifty instrumental/ambient tracks, the majority of which are named after English counties. Anti-Beast’s output has been prolific in the past two or three years, with numerous album releases including Ice Cream Joe, The Last Shah, Dr. F and Capitalism, all of which feature fifty tracks.

Kings in Suffolk, Pt. 1 - Aye Dawg (feat. D-Train): Aye Dawg is a rapper and comedian. As you can see from the accompanying artwork (right), the Suffolk in question is Suffolk County, New York. Kings in Suffolk, Pt. 1 was released in 2020.

Suffolk County - Body Double: Taken from the 2020 album Section 60, Suffolk County is one of eight instrumental tracks, all of which begin with the letter ‘S’ (e.g. Split Belladonna, Sunlit Extraction etc). Body Double are an electronic/synth band from New York. Other albums include Warm Life, Chapter Eleven and The Logic of Chance.

Suffolk Two Step and A Suffolk Tale - Welcome2DloLife: Suffolk Two Step by Welcome2DloLife is taken from the live EP Word to the Village, released in July 2020. Also by the same artist, but issued under the name dlo, is the A Suffolk Tale EP, released in December 2018, in honour of the artist’s grandfather’s 90th birthday. It features three versions of the same song: A Suffolk Tale, A Suffolk Tale Acapella and A Suffolk Tale Instrumental. Welcome2DloLife now resides in Atlanta and was inspired by a trip taken back to his hometown of Suffolk, Virginia.

Suffolk - Roman Lincoln: At one minute seventeen seconds, Suffolk is one of twenty seven short, classical tracks from the album Returning Home, released in May 2020. All tracks were written by Elizabeth June and most revolve around a theme of New York place names (Gowanus Creek, Prospect Park, Queens, Long Island etc).

Nassau-Suffolk - Alejandro Aznavwrian and Guillermo Marquez: Nassau-Suffolk is a four minutes two seconds long piece from the 2020 album Big City Fog by Mexican musicians Alejandro Aznavwrian and Guillermo Marquez. The music on the album is described as ‘Instrumental Psychedelic Rock’. The fifteen tracks are all named after seemingly random places in America, such as Los Angeles, Long Beach, Chicago, Anaheim etc. Nassau and Suffolk are, of course, the two easternmost counties on Long Island, New York.

Suffolk Shuffle - Big Top: Taken from the 2020 album Stomping Folk, this two minutes twenty seven seconds track is described as a “fast lively folk romp with playful Celtic fiddle lead & parping bass tuba.” Big Top features Greg McDonald from Suffolk, England, who has previously recorded with the bands Dawn Parade and Glymjack, as well as performing as a solo artist.

Suffolk - Jack Northover: Taken from the June 2021 album Tasman Sea, Suffolk is a song by Suffolk, England born singer-songwriter/composer Jack Northover. The track Suffolk was also released as a single. Jack’s songs draw upon folk, blues and indie rock, and feature a fusion of traditional instrumentation and electronica. He has toured extensively, and as a film composer his work has featured in a number of dramas and documentaries.

Suffolk Coast - The Sound Reserve: The Sound Reserve, based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, create “Beautiful Music and Incredible Sounds of Nature”. According to their website they “believe everybody should have access to incredible music to help them sleep, relax and feel better”. They therefore put out sound collages featuring natural sounds accompanied by ambient piano, guitar and electronic music.

Suffolk Coast is one of thirty tracks on the July 2021 released album Orford Ness. Each track is named after a location in Suffolk, England, such as Boyton, Butley Abbey, Friday Street, Melton, Waldringfield, Adastral Park etc.

The soundscapes heard on the album feature the natural sounds of the tidal streams of Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast. These have then been overlaid with relaxing piano music.

Suffolk Jig - Brian Russell: Brian Russell is a songwriter/recording artist with a bias towards blues and rock guitar. At two minutes twenty two seconds long, Suffolk Jig is the final track from his album Silhouettes, released in July 2021. This is an instrumental album which, according to Brian’s website, has “a bit more techno dance thrown in” than some of his previous work “mixed with the odd blues riff lurking in the background”. His other albums include The Grey Palaces and Done With You.

Attained Suffolk - Eyes Scramble: Attained Suffolk is a track from the instrumental album Don’t Be Afraid Of Anyone by the strangely named Eyes Scramble, released in April 2021. Other tracks on the album include Canine UFO, Centennial Sticky and Overlap Courier. No other information available about this band at present.

Suffolk Lo-Fi Beats - Lo-Fi Streamer: Suffolk Lo-Fi Beats is just one of more than a hundred tracks on the March 2021 album Lo-Fi Beats Streamer Music, Vol. 7 . Each track on this album references a place in the USA beginning with the letters S-W, followed by the suffix “Lo-Fi Beats”, such as Sioux Falls Lo-Fi Beats, Tampa Lo-Fi Beats, Washington Lo-Fi Beats, etc. Other volumes in this series of at least seven other similarly themed albums follow the same pattern with different initial letters.

Suffolk/Nassau - Golden Hymns Sing ‘Hurrah’: Golden Hymns Sing ‘Hurrah’ are described as a post-rock trio from Long Island, New York, comprising Joseph Melia on drums, Thomas Gallagher on bass and Nicholas Dell’Orto on guitar, bass, viola, keyboard/synthesizer, drones, mandolin, banjo and percussion. At sixteen minutes, the instrumental Suffolk/ Nassau is the longest track on their 2020 album The Great Dystopian Songbook I: Songs for the Setting & Rising Sun.

Queen of Suffolk County - The Dropkick Murphys: Formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996, Celtic punk band The Dropkick Murphys have become known for their energetic performances, which capture both Celtic pride and the essence of Boston. Queen Of Suffolk County is the second single taken from their tenth album, Turn Up That Dial, released in 2021. The song was inspired by singer and bassist Ken Casey’s youth and women he knew then.

Folk Song from Suffolk - Stella Dickinson, Capital Virtuosi & Paul Hart: Oboist Stella Dickinson MSc ARAM LRAM FRSA trained at the Royal Academy of Music, as a post-graduate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at King’s College London. She has won the Harold Craxton Chamber Music Prize along with and many other awards and, has played regularly with the BBC Symphony Orchestra including their Promenade Concerts. She has also been Principal oboist with the Lontano Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Rambert Dance Company.

Folk Song from Suffolk appears on her May 1999 album Love’s Lore: 16 Folk Melodies, where her plaintive oboe and cor anglais are augmented by string septet Capital Virtuosi, with arrangements by Paul Hart.

Stella is probably more noted today as Dr Stella Compton-Dickinson and who holds an award-winning PhD for music psychotherapy research. She is an independent researcher, consultant psychotherapist and accredited clinical supervisor with a private psychotherapy practice in London and an author of several books on the subject of music therapy. Her recent work has been recognised in the NHS as notable for her in-depth understanding and focus on the cultural needs of ethnic and other minority groups. Stella has presented developments in music therapy at national and international conferences.

Kev The Krocodile (who lives on an island in Suffolk) - Steve Loki Jordan: This electronic instrumental single was released in May 2021. The reptile in question refers to a sculpture of a crocodile which is located on an island in Thorpeness Meare on the Suffolk coast (see sleeve, left).

Suffolk Variations - Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislav Vavřínek & Vladimir Bukač:From the June 2021 released compilation album Polarities Vol. 2, Suffolk Variations is a nine minutes thirty two seconds long viola concerto composed by Brian Latchem and featuring soloist Vladimír Bukač.

Born in Bath in 1948, Latchem trained to be a music teacher and started his career in Felixstowe. He still lives in Suffolk, hence the reference in this work. He is apparently currently composing a companion piece entitled Suffolk Variations 2 for Cello and Strings.

Polarities Vol. 2 is subtitled Works for Orchestra and Large Ensemble and also includes works by Kamala Sankaram, Mel Mobley and Beth Mehocic, amongst others.

Suffolk Bay - Ariana May: Released in November 2021, this is a highly nostalgic song about a romance that never happened with a wistful tune against crashing waves. Presumably the latter is an echo of a Suffolk bay, but we know nothing about the location that may have inspired it, nor of its composer. This is the debut single of Ariana May, a 16-year old British singer-songwriter whose classical training in piano and singing has given her a deep love of composing and performing. She has a wide range of influences, and her style incorporates pop, indie, rock and folk music. We are unaware of her background and wonder if she comes from this English county?

Suffolk County - YerrShawty: Suffolk County is taken from his album Fasho! released in Aug 2021. YerrShawty seems to be a name used by a Boston, Massachusetts born musician and rapper who also uses the names Glocko Polo and MFO Amook. No other information available about this artist as present.

Julie’s Got a Summer Home (In Suffolk County, New York) - Twin Pigeons: Twin Pigeons are an indie folk duo comprising Alessandro Consuelos and Dylan Rex, from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Julie’s Got a Summer Home (In Suffolk County, New York) is an acoustic ballad clocking in at five minutes sixteen seconds, from the EP August Sun, released in Feb 2021. The other two songs on the EP are August Sun and August Moon.

Suffolk - Giacomo Patel: This is a two minutes long solo piano piece, released in August 2021. No other information available at present.

Suffolk - Jeff Parker: Released in December 2021 on an album of solo guitar songs called Forfolks. Suffolk is the album’s lead single and marries melodic improvisation with electronic textures (with an accompanying video directed by filmmaker Cauleen Smith).

Jeff Parker is an American guitarist and composer based in Los Angeles. He was born in 1967 in Connecticut and raised in Hampton, Virginia. Parker is best known as an experimental musician, working with jazz, electronic, rock, and improvisational groups. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and then moved to Chicago in 1991. There, he became the long time guitarist for Chicago post-rock band Tortoise. After a quarter of a century as a linchpin of Chicago’s experimental jazz and rock scenes, Parker finally made his solo debut in 2016 with the album Slight Freedom. In 2013 Parker moved to California. This move offered him the opportunity to develop his rarified guitar tone and sense of rhythm. In the years since, Parker has issued two complicated and compelling full-band albums. He brings the gusto of those recent albums to Forfolks, his spellbinding second solo LP. We presume that the title Suffolk either relates to his time at the Berklee College of Music in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, or to his time growing up in Hampton, Virginia, which is around thirty miles from the city of Suffolk.

Albums with “Suffolk” in the Title

Suffolk Sessions - Justin Tracy: Suffolk Sessions is an album by Justin Tracy, which was released in 2003. It features eight songs performed as part of a live radio session recorded in Suffolk, England. Although there are no songs with “Suffolk” in the title, the album also features three short spoken passages taken from the accompanying interview, one of which is called South Folk. Tracy is Suffolk, England born, but is now based in New York. Suffolk Sessions is his second album.

The Suffolk Explosion: The Suffolk Explosion is a 2005 album on the independent Sandwich Leg label, which features 14 tracks by different bands, each of which has at least one member from Suffolk, England within their ranks. Acts include Prego, Brick, Brunswick & Half Cut. The album is the brainchild of Woodbridge born Charlie Simpson (formerly with Busted), who features on this album as a solo artist & with his band Fightstar.

Suffolk County - Cousin Stizz: Rapper Cousin Stizz (real name Stephen Goss) is from Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The 13 track Suffolk County is his first album, released in June 2015. Songs include Ain’t Really Much; Bonds; Shoutout; Jordan Fade and Real Life.

Suffolk House - Vol 1-3: A series of three house/techno/breakbeat albums, released in March, May and December 2018 respectively on the Suffolk House label. This trio consists of various artists’ tracks created by a group of classmates at West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, and compiled by Larry R. The tracks were originally intended for a live event titled “Tombola”. Artists include SpaceCatGoesMeow, Rousehouse, GMS-J, Dour, Indefinity, TwoSpeechLess and DLK. The second record in the series is entitled Now that’s what I call Suffolk House Vol 2.

Sounds of Suffolk - Eboracum Baroque & Chris Parsons: Subtitled Music from the 18th Century, this classical album was released in November 2018. When conductor and trumpeter Chris Parsons was studying music at the University of York in 2012, he formed an ensemble of young professional singers and instrumentalists which was named Eboracum Baroque (‘Eboracum’ is the Roman name of present-day York; ‘Baroque’ is the style of music and other artistic pursuits that flourished in the 17th and early 18th centuries). This ensemble performs everything from chamber music, orchestral music and opera throughout different periods. They specialise in the performance of Baroque music in a historical style and on period instruments, and have performed widely in the UK and Europe under the direction of Chris Parsons.

The Sounds of Suffolk is the ensemble’s second album, and includes violin sonatas by Joseph Gibbs and music from Ickworth House in Suffolk. Joseph Gibbs was born in Dedham a village in Essex on the border with Suffolk. He was a noted composer who lived in Ipswich and was the organist at the church of St Mary-le-Tower for forty years. The album also contains music by Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747), Gottfried Finger (1655-1730) and Charles Dieupart (1667-1740), all composers with some link to Suffolk, although this link may be somewhat tenuous.

Chris Parsons lives just outside Ely in Cambridgeshire. He is passionate about community music and directs a number of community based ensembles in and around Suffolk e.g. Bury St Edmunds Friendly Orchestra, Thetford Singers, and Newmarket Chamber Orchestra. In September 2022 he won the ‘Best Music Director’ Award.

Over the years, several albums have been brought out recording for posterity the old folk songs traditionally sung in Suffolk, England. Many of these are ‘field recordings’, taken from performances in pubs, church halls or the performer’s home.

One of the oldest of these records is Songs from Suffolk by Bob Hart, which was recorded at Snape in July 1972. It was released on Topic Records. Bob Hart was born in 1892 at Sotherton, near the east coast town of Southwold in Suffolk. He settled at Snape, close to Aldeburgh, and his repertoire of traditional folk-songs, many learnt from the east coast ports of England and Scotland whilst he was working on the trawlers, kept visitors to the Aldeburgh Festival of Music enthralled. They would visit his favourite local pubs to hear him sing, although he avoided singing songs with risqué verses on a Sunday! He died in January 1978.

More recently, the Veteran Label have issued a series of recordings on CD featuring Suffolk residents singing or playing traditional folk songs/tunes. These include:

Comic Songs Sung in Suffolk: Comic Songs, Music Hall Songs & Parodies

Songs Sung in Suffolk: Popular Folk Songs, Old Songs & Ballads

Many a Good Horseman: Traditional music making from Mid-Suffolk recorded 1958-1993

The Suffolk Punch - A Poem by Henry Birtles

Published in April 2014, The Suffolk Punch is a poem by Henry Birtles. Also known as The Racing Poet, Birtles runs Henry Birtles Associates, a media consultancy specialising in television rights for horse racing. He has been commissioned many times by jockey clubs and race horse owners, & he has recited his poems to the crowds on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day. Although his poetry is primarily concerned with horse racing, he has also written about other sports, such as the Ashes (cricket) & the 2012 London Olympics. Away from sport, he has also written The Harvest, which was commissioned by Love British Food & was read by actor Damian Lewis in Westminster Abbey at the Harvest Festival Service held on 16th October 2013.

The Suffolk Punch was written at the request of HRH the Princess Royal, to highlight the plight of the Suffolk Punch horse, which is now an endangered species (see Suffolk Punch page). It is reproduced below with the kind permission of the author.

For more of Henry’s poetry, go to www.henrybirtles.co.uk

The Suffolk Punch

I may not have a Tiger’s stripe, a Panda’s eye, a Rhino’s Charge

Or pull on distant heartstrings when the hat goes round for helping hands

I may not gently fill your screens with longing looks from Nature’s deep

Where Children see a doleful gaze and into pillows sadly weep

But once upon a time long gone, I had a place high in this land

Where in your line, or by your side we formed a team of Horse and Man

And with your kin come rain or shine, we ground it out and fed your folk

Upon my back I bore the brunt, I heaved on plough and carried hope

I may not have a Tiger’s Stripe, a Leopard’s spots, an Aardvark’s snout

Or reach beyond my field, my home like others from a far flung shore

To some I’m just a tired old horse with nothing much to fuss about

A throwback to an age that’s passed, who fades behind a stable door

But if you look beyond my looks, my Chesnut hide and kindly eye

You’ll find a trust that failed you not, you’ll find an air of do or die

A Gentle Giant of honest stock, you’ll see a beast who’s just as rare

As all those creatures with appeal; without the history that we share

I may not have a Tiger’s stripe, a Bobcat’s tail, A Condor’s span

Or conjure up exotic yarns from Jungles, mountains, rivers, plains

I may not be a poster boy on City streets for Ad Campaigns

But I am proud and I am strong and I am yours from days since gone

I am a Heavy Horse of old, a stalwart, worker, humble friend

Our story’s one that should be told, a story now that shouldn’t end

This is my plight, take up my cause; with providence enact my plea

I am the Suffolk Punch you see, please do your very best for me

Suffolk & Rain - Rock Band from Buffalo, NY

Suffolk & Rain were an indie rock/experimental band from Buffalo, New York, who formed in 2010. The band claimed an eclectic mix of influences, such as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Radiohead & Bjork.

Suffolk & Rain’s original line-up was:

Jennifer Rivera - Vocals, percussion, acoustic guitar & keyboards

Bob Besant - GuitarSeth Sim - Bass, keyboards, guitar, electronics & backing vocals

Dan Shultz - Drums, percussion, guitar, keyboards & backing vocals

Their eponymous five track debut EP (see cover, right) was released in January 2011, featuring the songs Whiskey Moods,Late At night,Dixie Town,Happiness & Days Waitin’.

Seth Sim left in 2012 and the band continued as a trio. Their first album, The Change, was released in December 2013. It features nine tracks including Lock Me Away, Seconds on the Sun, Music at the End of the World & The Top.

Since 2014 nothing has been heard of Suffolk & Rain, and it is assumed that they have now split up.

There is of course a Suffolk County in the state of New York, from which the band could have taken its name. However, the city of Buffalo, where the band come from, is around 400 miles away by road on the other side of the state, so why the name “Suffolk” was chosen is a mystery at present.

Suffolk Punch - Late 1970s Country Band

The country band Suffolk Punch were formed in 1978, in Suffolk, England. With the initial line-up of Isabel Gorsuch on guitar & vocals, David Andrews on accordion & vocals, Bernie Dolmen on bass guitar & Mike Coe on drums, their first album, Travellin’ Light, appeared on the SRT label in 1978.

The following year saw the release of a second album entitled Bartender Blues. By this time they were a trio, Andrews & Dolmen having left the group to be replaced by Lindsey Balls on bass & vocals. A third album, Baby, Ride Easy appeared in 1981. Like their debut, both subsequent albums were issued on SRT.

As far as I am aware, this is Suffolk Punch’s total recorded output. The albums do not appear to have ever been re-released & are not available on CD.

Suffolk Saint - Singer/Rapper from Boston, MA

Suffolk Saint (real name Regy Pierre Saintil), is a singer/rapper from Boston, Massachusetts also known as “Skyscrapur”, “Scrapur” or “Re90ssance”. His UPrising Mixtape EP (2013), featuring six tracks - Restarted; Uprising; She Got My Name; New Beginnings; Can’t Get Enough & Get ’em Hard - is available to download (free) from his Facebook page, as well as from other sources.

Haarlem Suffolk - Rock/Pop Band from Caen, France

Formed in 2014 and based in Caen, France, Haarlem Suffolk are a five piece indie/alternate rock/pop band. The band’s line up is: Bastien Boulais (Vocals), François Le Gall (Guitar), Emmanuel Piquery (Keyboards), Olivier Mette (Bass), Pascal Vigier (Drums). The band write their own material and all the lyrics are in English.

To date, we have found no reason why the band has adopted this name.

As at late 2015, there are three unmastered demo recordings available on the band’s Facebook page: The Unspoken, Coming Soon and The West/The Quest. There are also three performances to view on YouTube, recorded live @ Le Bocal. The songs being Haiku, Too Many Troubles and Shabby Work.

Suffolkation/Suffolkated in the Names of Bands, Songs and Albums

As we note in the piece on the word Suffolkation in the Literature section, below, the word “Suffolkation” or “Suffolkated” has been around for a long time, and is generally used in a negative sense.

However, in the twenty first century, the words have been taken up by various people in the music business, either as the name of a group, an album or a song/piece of music. Many, but not all, of the artists involved are in the hip hop or rap genre, and come from one or other of the American Suffolks. Listed below are the details that we have been able to find, although in some instances specific details are hard to come by:

Suffolkation is the name of a band from Chicago, USA. Their cover version of the 1986 Candi Staton song You Got The Love, (later covered by, among others, Joss Stone and Florence and the Machine), dates from around 2013 and can be found on SoundCloud. No other information is available about this band at present.

Suffolkation Productions are based in the City of Suffolk, Virginia. The main character behind this organisation is Kanine Tha Rook (real name Kyra George), born in Oakland, California but now a resident of Suffolk. Three hip hop mix tapes have been released: Suffolkation Vol 1 - Out Tha Cage by Kanine Tha Rook; Suffolkation Vol 2 - Love, Life and Lyrics by Steve Rich; and Suffolkation Vol 3 - South Paw which is a collaboration between the two. There are also three tracks that are attributed as being copyrighted to Suffolkation Productions, available through SoundClick. These are Stupid Dumb Deep wHook ft. Steve Rich, Fan Mail wHook ft Steve Rich, and True Hip Hop, all of which date from 2010.

Just to confuse matters, another hip hop mixtape called Suffolkation Vol 1 also exists, attributed to Dino Spimoni & J-Ros (also sometimes billed as J-Ros & Dino Spimoni). Two tracks from this can be found on YouTube:- Like a Star and We Got Dat Fire. Apart from the fact that they come from Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, very little information is currently available about the creators of this tape.

Suburban Zombie are a punk/power pop band from Lake Grove, a village in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. Their song Suffolkated features on the 2016 album Where The Sun Doesn’t Touch. The band on this recording consists of Daniel Labbato on vocals, guitar and drums, Andrew “Sugarrr” Lichtenstein on bass, Bryan “Butters” May on guitar and Nate Ramsey on vocals.

Another song named Suffolkated is featured on the 2013 debut album The Bunty Man by the death metal/grindcore band Necrogrinder. Formed in 2008, Necrogrinder are from Sheffield, England, and consists of bassist Lee Foster, Guitarists Matt Muir and Ben Foster, and vocalist Sam Williams. Why the song has been so named remains a mystery, as the lyrics are basically unintelligible.

From Suffolk County, New York, The Anthill describe themselves as “a hip-hop based (not bound) collective.” The core members are listed as KB/Bernie Brown, Kampin Kyle, Jibberish Jeff, Scuba Steve, and Marv/Titan Time, although “Anyone who has musical or vocal talent is welcome to take part.” Their album Suffolkation was released in June 2014 and features 14 tracks including Am I A Mural, The Howling Appeal, and Modern Meltdown.

See Listers are a hip hop trio from Suffolk, Virginia, which consists of Ray Major, Pappa Grande, and Prime Minister. The song Suffolkation came out in 2014. This, along with many other of their songs, can be found on SoundCloud.

59’s Finest are a hip hop duo based in Ronkonkoma in the town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. Formed in 2004, the group is made up of individuals calling themselves Universal and Mastermind. The ‘59’ in the name of the group is taken from “the exit off the expressway where we live”. An album entitled Suffolkation has been rumoured, although whether this has been released, or is still in the pipeline, is at present unknown.

Another hip hop crew from Suffolk County, Long Island, New York are Renegade, also known as Renegade Family or Renegade Fam. Originally formed in 2002 by Harvey Dent aka 2 Face and Da Genius aka Dezi Da Don, after splitting up for a few years they reformed in 2006 and recorded their first mixtape (album) entitled 08’ The Takeover in 2008. In 2014 they produced the 10 track mixtape Suffolkation, with a line-up featuring Dezi, Harvey Dent, Complex, Reb, Smith and Tank Marly. Their gigs are sometimes billed as the “Suffolkation Showcase Series”.

Suffolkation City is an instrumental track by Tex Railer’s Doomtown and can be found on their debut album The Battle of Bunker Hillbilly released in June 2011. Tex Railer’s Doomtown is described as “a high octane national touring act, delivering you the rowdiest blend of Psycho-Americana, Surf Punk, and Heavy Honky-Tonkin Rock n’ Roll ever to poison your local watering hole.” Formed in 2008, the band hails from Albany, the state capital of New York. The line-up on the album is Sean Secor on guitars and vocals, Mike Allen on upright bass and Pat Fazio on drums.

Described as Pioneers of Fenland Country Rock, or ‘Crockery’, musical/comedy trio Chuck Cash & the Fenland Cowboys are from Newmarket in Suffolk, England. In May 2010 they released the song Suffolkation, about a man who is shunned by his family and becomes a Suffolk outcast because he moves in with a woman from Norfolk, or a Norfolk ‘broad’. It is said to be the true life event of Chuck Cash, the band’s frontman. A video to accompany the song can be found on YouTube.

The band has been going since 1991, originally as Chuck Cash, Rooster & Silver. Their real names are Ian Bedford (Chuck Cash), Neil Taylor and Brian Tolworthy, all local lads of Newmarket. Probably the band’s nearest brush with mass recognition came when they were thrown off stage by Simon Cowell during an audition for ITV’s “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2008 without being able to finish their performance. Simon Cowell said that “they were the worst kind of act ever”. The riposte by Chuck was that “the judges didn’t understand their Fenland humour.” On the premise that there is no such thing as “bad publicity” the Cowboys have since gone on to perform regularly at fringe festival events.

A musical with songs about the Fen Tiger has been made. Suffolkation tells the story of a group of locals and tourists who lock themselves in the village pub after discovering streets lined with mutilated sheep and hearing lots of strange incidents going on. While inside, the group tries to work out who is behind the violence – could it be the work of the Fen Tiger?

For the uninitiated, the “Fen Tiger” is a large black cat that has been regularly sighted since 1982. These creatures are larger than the normal domestic cat and have been described as “panthers” or “pumas”. The theory is that they have escaped from private zoos and are breeding in the wild fenlands of East Anglia. There have been several instances of sheep being killed and half-eaten by some creature that must be sizeable to commit such an act.

The musical was written in 2019 by Newmarket playwright and comedian Ian Bedford, with the songs taken from the expansive repertoire of his own country stage act Chuck Cash and the Fenland Cowboys.

Ryan Conroy is a multi-instrumentalist originally from Suffolk, Virginia, but now living in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been a professional musician since 1985. The jazz instrumental Suffolkating, dates from 2005 and can be found on SoundCloud.

Suffolkating is also the title of a single by North Londoner rapper Hurricane Hunt, released in August 2018 on the Branded Development label. It features Avelino and is taken from the mix tape Hurricane Season. The track contains the lyric “We’re from Suffolk where we’re Suffolkating”, although the reason for this Suffolk reference remains unclear at present. Hurricane Hunt is also known as Hurri and The C.O.A.T. (the latter stands for “The Coldest Of All Time”). Hurricane and Avelino both grew up together on a rough estate in Tottenham, North London, Hurricane of Jamaican descent and Avelino of Congolese and Angolan descent. Achi Avelino was first noted as a rapper under the name AA (from his initials) in 2012 when he was nineteen. Hurricane Hunt (real name unknown to us) first comes to attention as a rapper in September 2013 when he performed with Avelino in a music video Right Now on U-Tube. Further music videos on U-Tube were made by Hurricane himself in 2014 (I Got It and Throwback Freestyle), and he also made guest appearances with the British rapper Wretch 32 on individual songs on Album releases in 2014 and 2016. Hurrican Hunt’s first release was I Don’t Pretend in July 2016 on GRM Daily, a British urban music outlet that is the platform for UK rap and its various genres. He released Covid Test in August 2022 on the Branded Development label.

Suffolk Song Cycle & Other Poems – Jini Fiennes (1938-1993)

Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash was an English novelist and painter. She also sometimes used her nickname and married name which was Jini Fiennes which is the case with the Suffolk Song Cycle. Jennifer Lash was born in Sussex, England in 1938. In the mid-1950s, she met the lyric poet and gallery owner Iris Birtwistle. Shortly afterwards, when Birtwistle moved to Walberswick in Suffolk, Lash went with her and, encouraged by Birtwistle, began work on her first much-acclaimed novel, The Burial, which was published when she was only 22. Birtwistle renamed Jennifer “Jini” and introduced her to her future husband Mark Fiennes, whom she married in 1962, the year in which her second book The Climate of Belief was published. Lash was also regarded as one of the most promising young artists in England at the time.

The Suffolk Song Cycle is a sequence of 13 poems (“songs”) written shortly after this when Jini lived as a young farmer’s wife and mother in the Suffolk countryside. She had come from an unhappy childhood in Sussex and found in the wild coast and landscape of Suffolk an intense sense of freedom, liberation and happiness. The Suffolk Song Cycle was released in 1995 after a public recitation at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival of that year. Although some of the poems are definitely about places in the county such as Aldeburgh and Blythburgh Church, there is unquestionably an atmosphere that brings the feel of the ploughed earth, shingle shores, sea and sky. We have selected the Tenth Song as it expresses her feelings as motherhood approaches:

To be taken into heart is huge

I am standing where we have often stood

I am past church field and this side of wood

I am where corn has grown and has been gathered

I am beside those shining sides of earth, plough breasts

Bare open, and crack cold into Christmas time

I am alone wandering with this weight which stirs

And is the herdsman’s child

There are many times and many couplings,

But every infant rides his own time out

And is alone, even before his proper calling

His rights already are within me now

They spread to sky, they stare to sea

They make me cry and make it memory.

She died in 1993, aged 55, leaving behind a substantial body of paintings, poems and novels, but it is also part of her legacy that she was mother to such a talented family. Jennifer Lash had married into a branch of the notable Fiennes family, related to royalty, and all bearing the actual surname of Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (although they are just as famous being called Fiennes). There were seven children of the marriage (in order of age): Ralph Fiennes (born in Ipswich, Suffolk), an actor, film producer and director, probably best known for his role as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series. Martha Fiennes, a film director, and Magnus Fiennes, a composer, both born in Suffolk; Sophie Fiennes, another film director; Jacob Fiennes, a notable conservationist; Joseph Fiennes, another actor, and foster son, Michael Emery, an archaeologist. (And Jini still had time for her paintings, poems and novels!) Oh, we nearly forgot. And, of course, there is their cousin, the third baronet, better known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, a British explorer and holder of several endurance records; been to both the North and South Poles by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot. In May 2009, at the age of 65, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest. It goes without saying that he is also a notable writer and poet.

Suffolk Method Ringing Compositions (Bellringing)

The background, development and meaning of the names that follow are provided more fully in the Ipswich Method Ringing Compositions (Bellringing) entry on the Ips Misc. page of www.planetipswich.com.

There are four compositions that follow the Suffolk Method in Bellringing. The titles are:

Suffolk Surprise Major (8 bells) first peal on tower bells on 19 April 1921 at Leiston, East Suffolk.

Suffolk Place Doubles (5 bells) first reported in 1969.

Reverse Suffolk Place Doubles (5 bells) first peal on handbells by Southampton University on 10 November 1973 at Southampton.

Suffolk Delight Minor (6 bells) first reported in 2013.

Suffolk House Bed & Breakfast, Alberta, Canada

Suffolk House Bed & Breakfast was situated at Sherwood Park, Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, located around 20 miles east of Edmonton, on the shores of Antler Lake.

Suffolk House was owned by Sheila and Alan Smyth, both originally from Hadleigh in Suffolk, England, who immigrated to Canada in 1980. They bought the land on which the house now stands in 1999 and established a Bed & Breakfast business that operated from January 2001 until 2013. It had 3 guest bedrooms, as well as facilities for small meetings & weddings. Suffolk House offered panoramic views over Antler Lake, which is a centre for hiking, canoeing, golf & winter sports. The couple retired that year and sold the property to a family who were not interested in keeping it as a Bed & Breakfast place, and have also changed its name.

Suffolk Misc - Miscellaneous References to Suffolk from Around the World - Part 2

More Songs & Music with "Suffolk" in the Title

Albums with “Suffolk” in the Title

The Suffolk Punch - A Poem by Henry Birtles

Suffolk & Rain - Rock Band from Buffalo, NY

Suffolk Punch - Late 1970s Country Band

Suffolk Saint - Singer/Rapper from Boston, MA

Haarlem Suffolk - Rock/Pop Band from Caen, France

Suffolkation/Suffolkated in the Names of Bands, Songs and Albums

Suffolk Song Cycle & Other Poems – Jini Fiennes (1938-1993)

Suffolk Method Ringing Compositions (Bellringing)

Suffolk House Bed & Breakfast, Alberta, Canada

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