english dance & song
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.
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.
More sound files!
Miss Meragers Hornpipe
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Pease upon a Trencher
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Quick Step
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Dorsetshire March
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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
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‘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.
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A selection of tunes from the William Clarke tune-book, all played on
fiddle by Cheshire musician Neil Brookes.
Three tunes featured in the EDS article:
‘Malthouse Hornpipe’
‘The New Opera Hat’
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‘Bury Waltz’
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Plus more tunes from the Clarke tune-book that are not included in the
article (sound files in the left hand column!):
Plus the inside cover.
With grateful thanks to Lyn Law and Neil Brookes.
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.
By email write to
eds.editor @the
domain name efdss.org