REV STEPHEN GAMBLE

I am interested in the way folk songs, and folk music, often deal with dark subjects in humorous ways, and the invention of the folk hero...

The music follows the structure of the prayer Kyrie Eleison - Christie Eleison - Kryie Eleison Lord have Mercy - Christ have Mercy - Lord...

Turns out I can play it if I don't wait till evening to have a go. Not play it well, but passable if you squint with your ears.

Great Fryup Dale is on the North York Moors. The name comes from the Old English Freya's Hop (hop meaning a dale).

This beautiful little fossil is unimaginably old, no doubt a geologist could tell me how old, but imagination and measurement don't...

The Leyburn Shawl is a path that runs along the limestone escarpment just outside the North Yorkshire town of Leyburn. There’s an old...

Sketch for Horn, Violin, Flute, Viola, and Cello, by Stephen Gamble "More the expression of feeling than painting" Beethoven Instruments...

I had a go at a social media challenge to write a piece of music in 60 minutes - this is the result. 50 minutes to sketch on paper, then...

The Slow Air on which this Capriccio is based is called 'Westgate Carr Road', and was written by me. The music is a capriccio in that it...

We humbly beseech Thee, of Thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow,...

The Most Reverend and the Most Irreverent. Or What I saw in Church. Words, picture, and reading by Stephen Gamble (You may go now)

Those who Trespass against us. Or Terriers Barking The other day I was walking the dogs out through the field, intending to head out the...

High Askew late one autumn afternoon, below the vale was thick with fog, a reminder that sometimes you have to climb to see clearly.

Putting your Shoulders to the Task, or Why Pray? Imagine a farm yard around the end of the eighteen hundreds, with a stone built firm set...

Westgate Carr Road is a long straight lane, lined by ditches, and punctuated by occasional farm and domestic buildings. It doesn't really...

This piece of music was inspired by ‘Tombeau des Regrets’ by the French Baroque composer, Sainte Colombe - not so much the music of that...

Thoughts beside an Ancient Church. Church buildings are temporal memorials to eternal truths. They are built to mark out and protect a...

On Providence and the Bible. Or What I don’t Understand and What I Do Not. This is my Study Bible. Back in my early twenties the Vicar of...

Hector and Wilfrid (he's the little one) play fighting. I put up a video of them fighting by the sofa before, but then recently I found...