The Summer 2006 issue of ‘English Dance & Song’ is currently being distributed. Members of the EFDSS receive the magazine free. It is also available on...
Jeremy Harte and Robert McDowell of the Folklore Society are finalising the details on a conference to be held at the Bristol Folkhouse on 16/17 September on...
David Atkinson
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Jun 9, 2006 8:04 am
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The Study Break is in the village of Bridestowe, and the programme is focussed traditional song, and the Baring-Gould archive - one of the most significant,...
Marilyn Tucker
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Jun 9, 2006 11:17 am
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Hi, It would be really helpful if you would include the dates inclusive, or at the very least, the month for which this event is planned. Sometime after the...
Good Point, Lani The Baring-Gould Folk Festival Runs from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th October (2006). The associated Study Break runs through the week before,...
... From: Mr Red [mailto:mrred@...] Sent: 09 June 2006 13:59 To: Tradsong@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Tradsong] Baring-Gould Study break Apologies to...
Song origins enquiry: Witchnotes are singing a song 'Guy Guy Guy' which Lynda got from Martyn Wyndham Reed's Maypoles to Mistletoe and we are trying to find...
... I've no idea where Martyn Wyndham Reed got it, but those lines at least have been around for a fair while as part of a longer song or chant. See Bob...
Sorry for the repeat if i've asked here already. We'll be in London 10-12 July and would appreciate knowing about any trad pub sessions or similar events....
... The second tune in the first movement of the English Folk Song Suite is 'Pretty Caroline', and the third is 'Dives and Lazarus'. I don't know which of...
The funeral is on Wednesday but as the facilities are very small, the Kennedy family are asking only relatives and a few close friends to attend. There will...
Just to add my agreement for "Pretty Caroline" - a fairly frequently collected songs around the South Midlands. "Dives and Lazarus" is better known over here...
Hi there, It's just possible that my colleague Jim James - who was a member of Arky's Toast (the harmony group that features on 'Maypoles' and did two or three...
Hi John, In the first movement, the "Seventeen" tune is initially stated, twice in a boisterous setting. The piece immediately quietens down and the ...
... Martyn Wyndham ... its origins ... any ... The singer on the "Maypoles to Mistletoe" recording is Jim Ward of Broadwood Morris; I'd recognise his dulcet...
... I've finally found a sound clip (at the RVW Society website: I should have thought of that earlier) and I'd say that 'Pretty Caroline' is based on the set...
Norm Cohen is the authority on railway songs. Norm, could you go? Stephen ... finalising the ... 16/17 ... be ... first day ... the ... Music would ... If so, ...
... Wow! The one who directed The Railway Children? Seriously though, ALL railway songs? Anything we can have a look at (I'm genuinely interested). Paul...
Hi All, I have spoken on the phone to Jim James regarding 'Holler Boys' or 'Guy, Guy!' I am waiting for a confirmation email of the detailed facts from the...
Keith said... ... And I would have put money on it being Jim. I must be getting old. However, now I come to think about it, I'm not sure if I don't remember...
Dear Marilyn, It all sounds wonderful so though I can't stay for the Festival - I'm singing at the Cellar in London on the Sat, I'm hoping to come for the...
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Dear Friends The Magpie¹s Nest returns next Wednesday the 28th of JUNE, from 7:30pm, upstairs at the Old Queen¹s Head on 44 Essex Road, Angel. ...
Dear Tradsongers, Greetings from Birmingham! Many thanks to our excellent secretary, Martin Graebe, for mentioning in the minutes of our last meeting my...
And after you've finished your meditations at the cemetery, don't miss Wesley's chapel, house, and museum a few steps away on City Road. Well worth a visit for...
If anyone out there has either Finale or Sibelius, and are able to copy a couple of song tunes for the next issue of English Dance & Song, including the...
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