Ma Polaine's Great Decline Play The Green Note

Beth Packer and Clinton Hough are Ma Polaine’s Great Decline; In June 2016 Ma Polaine’s Great Decline follow their debut album with a third EP release, SMALL TOWN TALK, available on 10” vinyl, CD and download.
The EP was engineered and co-produced by BBC Folk Award winner Ben Walker at The Crypt Studio in London, with additional sessions at Ben’s home studio and at MPGD HQ, the 4-track vinyl and CD release draws influence from a typically wide breadth of genres.

The Small Town Talk tour takes in some of the best independent small venues in the UK, including an aim to sell-out the Green Note for a fifth consecutive time, building on 2015’s nomination as an emerging artist in the British Blues Awards, winning a Reveal Records emerging act competition, an international song-writing semi-final spot for Suffer It Well from 2013 EP of the same name.

In their live shows, Packer moves between double bass, accordion and harmonica, with Hough on electric or acoustic guitar and an occasional percussive foot, all accompanying Packer’s powerful yet sensitive vocal.
Following the EP tour Ma Polaine’s Great Decline appear at several festivals, such as Towersey, Marlborough Jazz, Wonderfields, Sandwich Folk and Ale and Nailsworth Arts, to name a few.