After receiving three really warm reviews in the UK folk/traditional music press for my new solo CD (from The Living Tradition magazine, fRoots, and Musical...
Dave Ruch
druch@...
Jan 12, 2009 2:14 am
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Dear Tradsongers,  Greetings from Birmingham, England!  Last year  was a sad one that saw "precious friends locked in death's dateless night." Let us ...
Bert Lloyd's sleevenote to Gathering Rushes (The Bird in the Bush. Topic 12T135)says the version sung by Anne Briggs on that LP was collected in Suffolk in...
Fred, Great to be able to return the favour so quickly. It's in 'My Song is my Own' edited by Kathy Henderson, Frankie Armstrong and Sandra Kerr, Pluto Press...
The next Ryburn 3 Step workshop in West Yorkshire is...... Workshop 9 "Ways of Singing the Story" with Chris Coe Suggesting and sharing ways of using our...
Hi Steve, Thanks for the info. You're probably as busy as I am right now, so I won't trouble you for a textual comparison. I must admit though, I've always...
Fred, 'pretty pristine text'. You've answered your own question! It looks very much like a marrying of the 2 texts in the Baring Gould collection to me. ...
Well known artist and Communist, Paxton Chadwick was born on 4th September 1903 at Fallowfield, Manchester. As a child he showed great talent as an artist and...
georgina@...
Jan 13, 2009 10:10 pm
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Wow! Thanks, Georgina. Steve To: Tradsong@...: georgina@...: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:09:50 +0000Subject: RE: [Tradsong] Re:...
The historian, A L Morton, also taught at Summerhill and lived in Leiston. He told Lloyd about 'The Eel's Foot' and so laid the ground for the famous...
georgina@...
Jan 14, 2009 10:49 am
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Steve, Folk Song In England gives Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1938, but doesn't identify the singer or say anything about Paxton Chadwick. The book's endnotes say...
Hi all. Does anyone have a text for Cafuzelum, as in "In days of old there was a Turk"? I don't. All I could find was a Barbados recipe. Be most grateful. Andy...
Andy Rouse
rouse@...
Jan 17, 2009 4:28 pm
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Thanks guys. That's what happens when you use the spelling that ain't on the web! There were four hits altogether, none texts. I don't even like fish and...
Andy Rouse
rouse@...
Jan 17, 2009 5:18 pm
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Dear Andy,  Sorry I cannot give a text but when I last heard it at Durham University in the early 50's, the chorus seemed to be Oh Kafuzalum, the harlot of...
I was thinking along similar lines myself. I've never come across "The Barber Of Jerusalem" until now. It was the harlot of same that entertained us at...
Sandy Easton
sandy@...
Jan 18, 2009 10:10 am
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Certainly it was a "rugby song" in my knowledge. Not that I ever played the game. Far to violent. A version is on Bellowhead's latest album "Matachin" - they...
Hi all, Sorry for coming in late on this one I have been away. Bert's collecting in Woodbridge was subject to discussion in this article. Although this is in...
Hi all, Sorry for coming in late on this one I have been away. Bert's collecting in Woodbridge was subject to discussion in this article. Although this is in...
Let me wish you all a (belated) happy New Year. I am now back in the saddle after a wonderful two month holiday in Australia, New Zealand and Japan and am...
Hi folks. Just to let everyone know that the January 2009 edition of Worlds of Trad Internet Radio has been successfully uploaded and will be on-line for your...
Janet Topp Fargion has asked me to post the message below which is a request for comments on the proposed next steps for putting the British Libraries...
Definitely good news - but is access only going to be available via HE/FE institutions, have I understood this correctly? It would be desirable, if so, to...
I'm fully with Mike on this one. I too would like the material to be available to all. It would be rather ironic if the efforts of all these recordists who,...
yes, I tried getting access to jstor through newcastle university where i am a consulting member only since retirement. But they seem very fierce about it....
pete wood
peter@...
Jan 27, 2009 8:57 pm
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On Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:57 PM Pete Wood wrote ... yes, I tried getting access to jstor through newcastle university where i am a consulting member only...
It would be a good selling point for the EFDSS if all members were provided with access to this resource. No idea how amenable the BL would be to this...
I have already signed a contract permitting the BL to place my recordings on the website. I think it is a great idea and I back it 100%. Any recordings among...
First, allow me to apologise for my ruthless editing of other people's contributions to this discussion. Its disjointed nature, together with the combination...
Today (Wednesday, 28th January) is the 175th Anniversary of the birth of Sabine Baring-Gould, the man who, in the late Nineteenth Century, paved the way for...
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