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Welcome to my website – for which, many grateful thanks to my partner David.
I hope you’ll find something to interest, inform and perhaps enthuse you, here. 
If there is anything you would like to know about or to comment on, I’d be pleased to hear from you. (click here)
In the meantime, sing, play, dance, write & teach with as much passion and energy as you can muster.

Love and harmony.

Workshops and Appearances


Upcoming:

Coal, Carols and Choruses
Thu 12th December at 7pm
Woodhorn Museum

Werca‘s Folk, with their director, Sandra Kerr, are absolutely delighted to be presenting an evening of song celebrating the history of the coal industry in this region and beyond at Woodhorn Museum.
There will be readings from the people who supported the miners, and plenty of opportunity to join in on the choruses of some of our other repertoire which expresses the loves, lives, hopes and hardship of women.
And because we will be firmly in Christmas mode, we’ll add some of our carols to warm and enchant you.
Werca‘s Folk is a choir of women devoted to singing, and to each other, while their director, Sandra, will be familiar to many of you as the composer of and musician for the much-loved music of the Bagpuss films.
We do hope you can join us for an evening full of harmony and humour.

Tickets Here

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Performer

Solo performances reflect my love of the traditional songs of these islands, and of the North East of England in particular, and of it’s dance music, which I play on English Concertina.  
More about Sandra's performances here.

Songwriter

The first song ever I wrote (What’ll the Neighbours Say) was sent to us from Scotland 15 years after, when Frankie Armstrong, Kathy Henderson and I were researching material for the book ‘My Song Is My Own’. We were told it was traditional…
More about Sandra's songwriting here.

Bagpuss

In the early 70's John Faulkner and I were asked to write the songs and music for a children's TV series called Bagpuss.  
John and I will be touring a bagpuss Show this summer! - Dates coming soon!
More about Sandra & Bagpuss here.

Choir Director

My first choir was the Caedmon Choir in Gateshead, which I took over from Eddie Upton. I cut my teeth on them, and learnt much. My 2nd was, and still is after 20 years, the wonderful Werca’s Folk. Gloriously, uproariously committed, talented and fun. I love them. We carry on growing together.
​More about Sandra's work with choirs here.

Workshops Leader

One of my passions as a musician, singer and writer, has always been to encourage people’s skills, whether they are young, old, experienced or absolute beginners.
More about Sandra's workshops here.

Educator

The support and encouragement of emerging singers, musicians and writers has always been a feature of my work, increasing with the years. I put this down to the education I was given generously by Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger. Passing on the tradition has always been part of the ethos of our folk music, and it is, of course, a way of ‘going on’ oneself.
More about Sandra's education work here.