H.T.A.

by Martha Woods

A super-fast polka written on the fiddle. ‘H.T.A.’ stands for ‘High Tide Anxiety’ – rushing up the cliffs of Treen beach before the waves snatch your picnic blanket! This tune can be found on my EP, ‘Spring at Last’.

Martha Woods is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Cornwall. Having grown up playing and dancing with traditional Cornish dance team, Tan Ha Dowr, and writing songs for her band, The Woodcarts, she went on to study on the Folk and Traditional Music degree at Newcastle University (including a year at the University of Limerick). She enjoys writing tunes and songs for a range of different settings and combining elements of folk and traditional music with more contemporary genres.