approach. She was an initiating member of the NVPN – Natural Voice Practitioners' Network, and "The key figure behind the development of the network...". She was a member of the Feminist Improvising Group (FIG), co-founded in 1977 by vocalist Maggie Nicols, bassoonist Lindsay Cooper, keyboardist Cathy Williams, cellist and bassist Georgina Born, and trumpeter Corinne Liensol. Armstrong collaborated within the accomplished FIG after 1978, and also with free jazz pianist (and partly percussion playing) Irène Schweizer, saxophonist (and film maker) Sally Potter, trombonist and violist Annemarie Roelofs, flutist and saxophonist Angèle Veltmeijer, and saxophonist and guitarist Françoise Dupety. The accompanying book to the Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten has a dust jacket picture of Frankie with Louis and The Crafty Maid's Policy from Lovely on the Water is the seventh track on the second CD in the set. In 2018, she was awarded a Gold Badge Award from the :English Folk Dance and Song Society for outstanding contributions to folk music. She wrote and recorded a song for Stick in the Wheel which is included in their second "From Here: English Folk Field Recordings, Volume 2" recording project and joined Lankum on stage at new year in Bristol singing Old Man from over the Sea. In 2019, Folk Radio UK announced that Frankie had formed a new band called :Green Ribbons with Alasdair Roberts (musician), :Jinnwoo and Burd Ellen. In July 2019, the band released their self-titled debut album consisting of purely unaccompanied singing through Matiere Memoir Records. In November 2020, Folk Radio UK announced that Frankie is due to release her 12th studio album 'Cats of Coven Lawn' in January 2021 to mark her 80th birthday. The album was produced by :Bird in the Belly member Tom Pyor, and the first single 'Life Lived Well' features Laura Ward (Bird in the Belly, :Hickory Signals). Discography Solo Lovely on the Water, Topic 12TS 216, LP (1972) Out of Love, Hope and Suffering, Bay 206, LP (1973) Songs and Ballads, Topic 12TS 273, LP (1975) And the Music Plays So Grand, Silence Records SRS4652, LP (1980) I Heard a Woman Singing, Flying Fish FF 332, LP (1984) Ways of Seeing, Harbourtown Records HAR009 (1990), CD (1996) Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn: A Collection of Traditional Ballads, Fellside FECD116, CD (1997) The Garden of Love, Fellside FECD144, CD (1999) Encouragement, Fellside FECD208, CD (2008) What’s