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Musician Polly Morris appears on Your Voice | Dorset Podcast
Local musician Polly Morris was the guest on episode four of Your Voice | Dorset Podcast, our in-house podcast production.
In the latest episode of Your Voice | Dorset Podcast, we invited local musician Polly Morris into the studio. Known for her funny songs and musical parodies, she regularly performs across the county.
The mother-of-three had a passion for music from a young age, listening to her father play the piano when he came home from work. She recalled: “I used to write songs when I was tiny. I mean, they weren’t very good! You spend your lifetime trying to get better at your craft, so hopefully I’ve been getting better and better.
“When I was two, I made up this song I would sing again and again and again, and the family used to get quire irritated by it.”
As a child, Morris learned to play the piano and was taught how to play the guitar by her brother, and to this day she still tries to learn to play new instruments. She said: “I love instruments, and often buy instruments thinking ‘how hard can it be?’ Then I have a go — so there are quite a few instruments I can play maybe one tune on.”
After leaving school, Morris studied to be an engineer and went in risk assessment within the shipbuilding industry, while music remained in the background. “I was always writing songs, about the people I worked with or things that happened, and that happened more and more as I got older.”
Over her career, Morris has produced eight albums of original music. On the podcast, she went into detail about her writing process, her comedy inspirations, and the challenge of writing lyrics and fitting a tune around those words.
“I think as a singer songwriter, you write about what you experience, what has moved you, or what’s made you laugh, and its lovely to package it up into a neat little three-minute song.”
As well as her solo work, Morris regularly performs with The Polly Morris Band, featuring Mandy Stansfield, Kate Hunter, Brian Harries and more.
“What’s so lovely [about performing with a band] is being able to talk about the event afterwards. When you’re performing on your own, it can feel a little lonely, because you do something and you’re not sure how it went down.
“Being in a group is really lovely.”
Over the summer, Morris will be performing at several festivals, including Wimborne Fok Festival, Rustic Stomp in Wareham, and Petherton Folk Festival in Somerset.
Watch the full episode in the video above, and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel youtube.com/@YourVoiceDorset to catch the latest episode as soon as it is released.
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