Charlie Edwards

Some people search for years for the thing that sets their heart aflame while others simply live that passion and purpose all along.

Charlie is very much the latter.

Charlie has been a singer for as long as she can remember, but from the very first voice note she ever sent me, it was obvious that her work with voice was so much more than performance. Instead it's about resonance, depth and truth.

The truth of what she has to share with the world, yes. But also the truth about what each of us need to share too, from deep within our hearts and our souls. And the truth the land. Because I've never met anyone who connects with and reveres the land as deeply as Charlie does.

Perhaps that's why, when her heartlands of Cornwall called her to tend them a few years ago, she didn't hesitate to answer, and has honoured, tended to and protected those same lands every day since with the kind of loyalty we rarely see nowadays. But then that's the thing about Charlie: as those who know her best will tell you, she is one of the most loyal people you will ever meet. Not only when it comes to the land she tends, nor even to the people she loves (though gods am I grateful to be counted in that group of people!), but also to that which she holds sacred.

When Spirit chose Charlie as an elder of this land, a Story Seer, a Voice Weaver and a Coastal Chantress, they weren't messing about! They recognised that they had someone who would never back down from a challenge (even if that meant standing pale-faced through a clifftop ritual after being ill for weeks on end) or shy away from the hard work that needed to be done; someone who could spot a performance a mile off but still chooses to be utterly real and reverent in everything that she does; and someone proudly and radiantly brings her whole self to everything she touches — in a way that means you can't help but do the same.

When we speak of the truth of the Wyld, the integrity of Hal and the wisdom of the Lore, we're not just talking about what Charlie does for work, we're talking about who she is, and it is an honour to walk that journey beside her.

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