Robin Grey Email & Phone Number

A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story, our show connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with climate change and the housing crisis via the Enclosures, 'Three Acres And A Cow' draws a narrative through the people's history of Britain. Part TED talk, part campfire storytelling session, part folk club sing-a-long.I am involved in producing, performing, researching, fund-raising, promoting and writing along with a small team of amazing people. Performed just shy of 150 times to over 10,000 people at festivals, community spaces, churches, arts centres, squats and universities in collaboration with lot of different performers including acclaimed storytellers Hugh Lupton, Rachel Rose Reid and musicians such as Stick In The Wheel and Peggy Seeger.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

My five self released albums have been streamed over five million times and gained fans/radio play/reviews as far away as Brazil, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, Poland and America. I have performed at Cecil Sharpe House, Southbank Centre and The Union Chapel as well as performing closer to the earth around London’s gardens; King Henry’s Walk, The Urban Physic Garden, The Centre For Wildlife Gardening and Dalston Eastern Curve. Festival slots include Leigh Folk Festival, Folk Weekend Oxford and Glastonbury.With 'Pedal Folk' I have instigated and organised four folk music tours by bicycle around southern England including a re-imagining of Edward Thomas’s cycle ride from London to the Quantocks in 1913 captured in his book ‘In Pursuit Of Spring’. I made national news once with an improvised performance for then Prime Minister David Cameron during a general election.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I run a popular weekly singing group every Friday morning in Firth Park, north Sheffield.

Hackney, London

I was the academic tutor for the homework club of local children's charity Hackney Young Carers, which is part of Action For Children. 'Young Carers' are children who have to take on adult roles in their families from a young age due to death, serious long term illness and/or imprisonment of parents.In practice this required a beautiful combination of crowd control, managing 2-5 volunteers and supporting 7-15 kids aged 6-18 to complete their homework. Some of these kids you might conservatively describe as 'quite lively' and reluctant to do their homework.

Hackney, London

I taught ukulele, guitar and bass guitar to a delightful cross section of Londoners, aged 5 to 67.I also ran workshops for kids, adults and families, sometimes all at the same time. Clients included The Duke Of Uke, The Barbican, The Pleasance Theatre and The Glastonbury Festival.

Dalston, London

I had a lovely little recording studio in Hackney filled with lots of nice toys including a fancy microphone collection and other bits and bobs. I worked with a number of superb musicians during this time including Ruth Theodore, Sam Lee, Blue Swerver and many many others.

London, United Kingdom

I used to make websites for musicians, community food growers and other friends, stopped because it got a little tiring having to do the longer term tech support stuff for the twenty plus websites I was hosting.

I set up food growing spaces and ran growing clubs on housing estates and a school in Hackney, working with residents aged 4-70. My projects gained financial support from the NHS, Hackney Council, Ground Work and Mayor Of London.The first site I set up on Somerford Grove estate won 'Best Edible Estate' in the Mayor of London's Capital Growth awards. This led to consultancy work for Hackney Council who asked me to report on best practice and potential for replicating the project's success. This report was used as supporting evidence for a successful major lottery bid by the Shoreditch Trust.

Allens Gardens, Stoke Newington

Working under the head grower, Ru Litherland on three urban market gardens around Hackney, I was part of a team of six growing, harvesting and packing mixed leaf salad bags, tomatoes and soft fruit whilst managing 10-20 volunteers a week.I learnt the difference between rocket and mizuna along with a host of other useful plant based knowledge.

London, United Kingdom

I was one of the first employees of this electric car start-up company run by Stephen Cain, Britain's youngest FTSE100 CEO. Within a year I was operations manager, managing twelve staff and engineers, a fleet of 40-80 cars and looking after sales, deliveries and after-care for our customers. I lobbied local and nation government including test drives for MPs, Lords and key officers at the Palace of Westminster and supporting an early day motion in Parliament. I gave presentations and attended meetings with councils and senior management at major UK companies such as British Airways and the Canary Wharf group.