I recently dealt with an enquiry passed on by Peter Kennedy about the song 'Cawsand Bay' which is in Sharp's 'A Book of British Song', published in 1902....
Martin I think I know somebody who might know, so will enquire Is there a lot of interest in the 19th at the Sage? Peter ... From: "Martin Graebe"...
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Hi Peter ( and group) Thanks for the offer of enquiries on Cawsand bay I have been looking at the numbers for the Sage and they are shaping up well. At the...
Hi Martin (and group) Is anyone going from London on Friday evening? If so Paul Wilson could do with a lift to Gateshead. Thanks Marilyn Tucker...
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Dear Peter, In an earlier correspondence we discussed my talking for a few minutes about the Hungarian folk movement. How many minutes, if any? I shall also be...
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Dear Martin, Just in case you haven't counted me, I'm definitely coming from Hungary. Andy...
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Andy I'll get you in for a short bit. Give me a coule of days. And sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Will be in touch by the weekend Peter ... From:...
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... Elaine Bradtke, and Steve Roud) met on June 5th at Cecil Sharp House, to discuss indexing of traditional songs. The present Roud indexes are only the first...
Jim, As far as I'm concerned you're very welcome to join us, the more the merrier. I'm sure the others will feel the same. I'll be seeing Steve and probably...
I wasn't at the second meeting of the Group, but I can report that Steve G. has been roaring through the English material assigning master titles, and throwing...
Steve, I'd like to get to Gateshead, but I have no transport at the moment, so I'm restricted to places I can to fairly cheaply on the bus and where I can get...
Georgina and John, Thanks for the information. I picked up copies of the Long and Wilson papers from the British Library. Does anyone know what has happened to...
Oops, message interruptus ... I had to dash of to a class. Looking back at the discussion on the SISG, it appears that what is on the VWML site is not the...
... Assuming we're talking about library.efdss.org that'd be me. The current state of play is that after a lot of me messing about and taking a lot longer than...
In a message dated 23/11/2005 21:54:53 GMT Standard Time, jmoul81075@... writes: This event will be known to some of you. It's well worth a participative...
As part of the BBC's Peoples War project, I've been recording wartime memories of people in a local nursing home under what I call a public access licence...
Jim, This agreement sounds really interesting and useful. I'd love to see a copy please. Thanks, Chris Coe donohoejim <donohoejim@...> wrote: As part...
Chris, I need your email address to be able to send you an attachment. I can't do it directly through the group - Yahoo groups don't allow it. Best regards,...
John, Do you know if D.K. Wilgus ever completed his catalogue, and if it was published? Is a copy available? Could you ask around for me please. Nicholas might...
Jim, Likewise I'd certainly like a copy. If our Yorkshire Songs website gets off the ground it could be very useful to us. My address is in the TSF list, or...
Jim, For any American published stuff you'd be better off asking on the Indiana Ballad List website. This is just as esay to join as the TSF list and most of...
Steve, I looked for the TSF website and found that it wasn't where I thought it was - and where most of the web thinks it is. Both Martin Nail and the British...
Steve, OK. I'll have a bash at it. Looking at the article, there's no indication as to where the work was being done. I had assumed that the catalogue was of a...
The Winter issue of 'English Dance & Song' is currently being distributed to EFDSS members and subscribers. This covers January to March 2006. This issue has...
Does anyone out there know a word used by English-speaking Gypsies to describe non-Gypsies? I'm doing a translation from Hungarian to English on prestige item...
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Andy, Gorgio is one that comes to mind - Ewan MacColl wrote a song from a traveller point of view called "Was it us or the Gorgio people" which I think appears...