English Dance &
Song is the longest-established magazine devoted to folk music, dance
and song in the country. First published in 1936, it has appeared at least
four times a year ever since.
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Summer
2006
68-2
Contents
A
48-page summer special.
Features:
Iv-diff! – The Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival
The Singers, Song and Source: The Singers (Mary Humphreys and Anahata)
… the Song (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) … and the Source
(Charlotte Dann). See sound file.
The Rakes’ Progress – Fifty years of The Rakes – Sean
Goddard
From Norfolk to Chester via Michigan and eBay – a newly-discovered
Norfolk tune book - Lyn Law. See sound files.
The Library goes Live – the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Online
– Richard Butterworth & Malcolm Taylor.
DERT! – the annual rapper competition.
May Day – Doc Rowe – a new book of May customs.
Nibs Matthews Remembered – Ron Smedley pays tribute to the former
Director of the EFDSS.
Reviews – including Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Kathryn Tickell
& Corrina Hewat, Alasdair Roberts, Jennifer Cutting’s Ocean
Orchestra, Aglo International!, Florida, Jim Moray, Dave Bordewey &
Dave Young, Craig; Morgan; Robson, James Ross, Mark Dowding, Graham Metcalfe,
Steamchicken, Hughie Jones, The Occasionals, Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes,
Finest Kind, Audrey parks, Stomp, Chumbawamba, Shirley Collins & Davy
Graham, Dancing Folk DVD, The Day it Daws book, History and the Morris
Dance book.
Regular Features:
Festive Round-Up; Lives Remembered, Songs under the Microscope; News;
Dancing in the Summer (list of dance events); EFDSS Matters; Letters;
The Source.
Sound
Files
Sound files are included here in conjunction with this issue:
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale – specially recorded for EDS by Mary
Humphreys and Anahata
‘Kerry
Polka / I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue’ – The Rakes, from
The Red Haired Lad, Fellside FECD122. With grateful thanks to Paul Adams
of Fellside.
plus
Three
tunes featured in the EDS article and some extras
English Dance & Song exists to interest, inform and
stimulate the membership of the EFDSS, as well as the wider folk music
and dance community.
English Dance & Song aims to publish contributions of the highest
quality.
The range
of interests include traditional song, traditional dance (social, display,
ceremonial), traditional music, custom and children's games. The geographical
spread is not confined to England, but may also include Scotland, Wales
and Ireland; as well as the USA, and other areas of the world which may
be appropriate.
Potential contributors are asked to read the Contributor's Style Sheet.
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Items for review should be sent to the Editor. Unsolicited reviews will
not be published.
The Editor of eds is Derek Schofield,
author of The First Week in August: Fifty Years of the Sidmouth
Festival, published in 2004 to celebrate the festival’s
Golden Jubilee.
He has also written biographies of William Kimber and Fred Jordan, as
published in their recent CDs, Absolutely Classic: The Music of William
Kimber (EFDSS, 1999) and A Shropshire Lad (Veteran, 2003). Derek has also
contributed to The Guardian, The Independent and The Times, as well as
to the Folk Music Journal and fRoots.
Contact the Editor at: Editor, English Dance and Song, EFDSS, Cecil Sharp
House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY.