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The songs and ballads that interest us most feature ordinary people in real but challenging circumstances or deal in some way with the inescapable and perplexing mystery of being human.

Dark Tarn is a fluid group of folk musicians, led by David Metcalfe -  singer, guitarist and storyteller.

Dark Tarn will be launching a new CD, Earthy Strong - songs of lust, love and death  in 2010

Dark Tarn's material is drawn mainly from the rich folk-ballad traditions of the British Isles, particularly the rural Anglo-Scottish borderland but also the sea-faring and mercantile ventures of late Medieval and Modern times.

For us, singing ballads and telling stories is the ultimate sustainable practice, leaving no trace behind except in someone's mind. 

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Rondo Theatre, 2001

Chapel Arts Centre, 2009