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.

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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.
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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. htm rtf pdf

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