The Company of Trees is a music and spoken word production compiled by Michael James
Ford & Philip Dodd and first performed to great acclaim at the Field Exchange Festival in
Tipperary in 2024.

It celebrates our long and complex relationship with the forest world through literature and
music. Using some of the great poetry, prose, music and song that trees have inspired over
the centuries, the show explores their emotional, aesthetic, environmental and
philosophical impact on our daily lives.

By exploring the natural cycle from planting to maturity, The Company of Trees promises to
entertain, inform, provoke and, above all, raise awareness at a time of unprecedented
threat.

“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to
make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” Albert Schweitzer