English Dance & Song
The Winter 2009 issue has just been published.
This issue includes a full list of 150 Folk Festivals in 2010, which is also
available on the website www.efdss.org/festivals.html
The Singer, Song and Source feature is Bella Hardy, whose song ‘All in the
Morning’ is from her latest CD, In the Shadow of Mountains. The song is from
Derbyshire’s Castleton Carol Tradition, which Ian Russell writes about in
The Source.
Continuing the seasonal theme, there’s a feature on The Drayton Wassail song
custom from Somerset, which Cecil Sharp visited a hundred years ago. And
news of the re-publication of Percy Maylam’s book about The Hooden Horse of
Kent.
In Never on Sunday in Widecombe, Rollo Woods examines a unique manuscript
collection of tunes from the famous village in Dartmoor, Devon.
There’s a feature on the remarkable dance and music group, The Fosbrooks,
from Stockport in Cheshire: The Fosbrooks Phenomenon.
Fellside Recordings are the latest in our series on independent record
labels.
There’s a feature on the EFDSS’s latest publication, The Fallibroome
Collection, a new edition, by Nic Broadbridge, of Bernard Bentley’s classic
collection of English country dances.
EFDSS Education Director, Rachel Elliott, writes on the Take 6 Education
Project.
We also celebrate Library Director, Malcolm Taylor’s 30 years at the EFDSS,
and the continuing party for Cecil Sharp’s 150th birthday.
Plus all the regular features – festive round-up, news, reviews and dance
events.
Visit http://eds.efdss.org to hear ‘All in the Morning’ sung by Bella Hardy,
and to hear
‘The Drayton Wassail’ sung by the Wassailers in January 2009, recorded by
Bob Patten.
The website also has a list of the advertisers in the Winter 2009 issue.
The magazine is free to members of the English Folk Dance and Song Society:
individual copies are Ł2.50.
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