Music for Childhood
songs, rhymes, rhythm, whimsy
Welcome! We're back for Autumn on Tuesdays 10am at The Art House, Grove Road.
FREE, but needs to be booked on their website.
Singing for families with children under five. We all learn best when having fun, and the children have fun when we sing together.
We sing well known nursery rhymes and some lesser known songs are below. You can download these freely but I recorded these quickly for class purposes, so just for you to sing with the young people in your life. Do please share favourites of your own by messaging me or in person when you come along. Songs and rhymes are welcome from any part of the world. They're all of interest.
I appreciate no use of video and photography during our time together.
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About me:
I'm Liz Overs and here's a little background:
I have a 1st Class BA Hons in Music Production. I've also been singing for the majority of my life and in the past was a songwriter signed to Atlantic & EMI Records.
More recently I worked with young people: teaching foundation English & Maths, as a youth worker and with International students and now as a part-time care worker. I have an Enhanced DBS.
UPCOMING IN-STORES
26 June: CRASH RECORDS, Leeds
27 June: FIVE RISE RECORDS, Bradford
28 June: OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, Louth
29th June: JUST DROPPED IN, Coventry
4th July: SOUND KNOWLEDGE, Marlborough
6th July: SLIPPED DISCS, Shoreham
Artist: Liz Overs
Album: Nightjar CD/Vinyl/DL
Release 21st March 2025
A shimmering debut rich in folklore, The Observer
Foxy trad, witchy originals, Mojo ****
Whoo hoo witchy woman, she got the moon in her eye, Spiral Earth ****
Songlines ****
a deeply evocative collection of new and traditional songs, Morning Star ****
calling you home from the darkest part of the woods, Folk London Magazine
Nightjar... with air from Liz Overs, earth from Neill MacColl, Ben Nicholls and David Tomlins, fire from
The Binnie Sisters, and salt water from the Sussex coast.
Nightjar is musician and folklore enthusiast Overs’ first solo album. Under a previous signing to Atlantic Records, Liz had a number one club hit in the US. She has since written and sung for Chalk Horse Music and hosted a radio show covering the music, folklore and social history of Sussex.
In 2023, Overs’ haunting, unaccompanied version of The Birds in the Spring was the only song featured in Dylan Howitt’s award-winning documentary The Nettle Dress and Liz performed live at key screenings in the UK.
Recent collaborations include...
with Deborah Sim, Keeper at The Museum of Sex Objects, presenting Fallen Women.
with Folklorist Sophia Kingshill, presenting Mermaids
with Eastbourne Eco Action Network to present Singing The Forest and other Downland walks
