Talis Kimberley

Her songs are narrative in nature and feature a mixture of mythology, green issues and everyday life approached from unexpected angles, among other things.

She has been an active contributor to the Occupy movement, and in 2015 was the parliamentary candidate for the Green Party for the South Swindon constituency, winning 1,757 votes.

She has been a Guest of Honour at VIbraphone (1994) – UK; FilKONtario (1997) – Canada; OVFF (2000), Consonance (2003), DucKon 19 (2010), MarCon (2017) – USA; and FilkCONtinental (2006) – Germany.

[16] She was also one of the acts, along with Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, who took part in a charity fundraiser to allow the village of Wroughton to purchase Kings Farm Wood.

[citation needed] As well as having had lyrics for her songs published in various filk songbooks, Kimberley has contributed to publications[21] and co-created the comic strip Zen Zebras.