Hylda Sims
Hylda Sims | |
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| Born | 3 April 1932[1] England |
| Died | 13 January 2020 (aged 87) |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, poet, novelist |
Hylda Sims (3 April 1932 โ 13 January 2020) was an English folk musician and poet.
Biography
She was born in 1932, to parents who travelled the country in a caravan selling homemade
Collet's book and record shop.[2]
From 1954, she was in a personal relationship with
modernist painter Russell Quaye. Together with John Pilgrim and John Lapthorne, they formed the City Ramblers (later the City Ramblers Skiffle Group), playing a mixture of jazz, blues, music hall and folk songs, and in 1955 set up the weekly Studio Skiffle club in Holborn. During the British skiffle boom of the mid to late 1950s, and later, Sims toured widely as a member of the City Ramblers, and recorded for the Storyville and Topic labels.[2]
In the 1960s, she studied at
English as a foreign language in London and Spain, and established Lifespan, a residential community at Dunford Bridge on the South Yorkshire moors. She received a B.A. and an MSc in Russian Studies, and published three novels and two collections of poetry, Sayling the Babel (2006) and Reaching Peckham (2009).[3] She regularly read her verse at poetry events, and performed with the City Ramblers Revival.[4]
Sims died in January 2020 at the age of 87.[4]
References
- ^ "Hylda Sims, skiffle star โ obituary". Telegraph.co.uk. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ ISBN 9780571327768. Retrieved 4 September 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hylda Sims, Hearing Eye. Retrieved 15 January 2020
- ^ a b "Hylda Sims remembered", The Poetry Society, 15 January 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2020
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