... Begin forwarded message: From: Stephen Miller < chiollagh@... > Date: 2 May 2011 22:22:21 GMT+02:00Tr To: Tradsong@yahoogroups.com Subject: JSTOR /...
At last the long awaited latest Worlds of Trad upload is on air and streaming even as you read this. Again, I have to apologise for the cumbersome delay, but...
and Norma is well on the mend too... http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/17/martin-carthy-interview-ed-vulliamy Martin Carthy: 'I'm not interested in...
The Irish Traditional Music Archive – Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann – is a national reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song,...
Dear Tradsongers, Greetings! Chuck Boody is a Doctor of Musicology and a Past President of the USA's prestigious Association for Technology in Music...
Please excuse me forwarding this - I know some folks are involved with various digitisation projects, and who may also be using the BL archives. Chris B....
I am starting to learn Irish gaelic sean-nos songs (big contrast with Sussex, but I was born and brought up in Eire). I'm thinking about a short holiday about...
The evening sun is lighting up the new growth on the trees and I'm looking forward to another great weekend of singing. TSF Website (www.tradsong.org) Luckily,...
On Friday 1st April at 2.30 p.m., Radio Winchcombe (Gloucestershire) will broadcast a talk by Gwilym and Carol Davies on the folk music collecting of Percy...
Press release just issued:  EFDSS awarded funding to tell the story of traditional, rural and working class culture in 20th century England  29 March 2011:...
In case people are interested in this exploration of song links across the Atlantic. Marilyn Shore to Shore: an international collaboration in folk song and...
Great series of four programmes. Compass Ceoil Compass Ceoil is a four-part series journeying through the history of Irish traditional music, presented by Moya...
Hello Members of this group may be interested to know that The British Library has recently made live the Opie collection of children's games and songs on our...
Subject: Short Sharp Shanty CD launch From: doc.tom - PM Date: 17 Mar 11 - 08:01 AM At last! The first of the three CDs recording the shanties of John Short,...
This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's...
Response has been excellent. We were even in danger of selling out, but we have been moved to a larger room in Cecil Sharp House, so we have plenty of space...
Sabine Baring-Gould and the work that Wren Music are doing in Devon, using his collection of folk songs were featured in BBC Radio 3's prestigious 'Music ...
FWJ, published about twice-yearly, welcomes researched articles, songs, and tunes, and is aimed at interested readers who may not be aware of the work of...
Vic Gammon has asked me to circulate the message below. He has talked to me about this a few times over the last year and he and Emily have done some ...
Thank you all those that got back to me about the suggested TSF meeting at the end of Apri - it was very helpful that you did so. It is clear that too many ...
Ballad Printers of Worcester: 5, H.F. Sefton. Includes song The Labouring Woman and illustrations. This article by Roy Palmer can be downloaded (pdf) from ...
We are a month into the new year and a lot has already happened - particularly on the EFDSS website Firstly a new edition of Steve Roud's index has been added...
Here's the link, which will be active for about a week. You will have to run it on to time 2.36.30 to hear the interview (interspersed with records, traffic...
I'd like to remind you about the Broadside Day which is to be held at Cecil Sharp House on Saturday 26th Feb. Details of the speakers for the day can be seen...
Reading Ben McIntyre's book Agent ZigZag (Bloomsbury, 2010 on Eddie Chapman, the WW2 German spy who was a double agent for the British, I came across mention...
Regarding the use of optical media for archiving use, I got this information from Ron Houston who runs the Society of Folk Dance Historians: === The best...
Dear Steve, Have you looked at the medieval lyric, "As I went Out on a Yol Day" (or "Jankin, the clerical seducer"? Title by the editor, Davies (Medieval ...
As we rapidly approach Australia Day on Jan 26, this is a timely reminder of the remarkable survival of a 'lost' and unknown musical docu-drama entitled...
Hi I'm starting to put together an anthology of ballads and songs that utilise sexual double entendres/ metaphor, allegory, etc. I've already scoured the likes...
An English textbook writer friend has sent me the following: "A question. What, technically, would you call the line ‘Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme’...
