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- 3 Autumn 2007 |
Alan
James on The Imagined Village featuring Martin
Carthy, Eliza Carthy, The Gloworms, The Young Coppers and Chris
Wood, as well as Benjamin Zephaniah, Sheila Chandra
and Billy Bragg.
‘Singer,
Song and Source’ features Ed Rennie, former
member of the Bismarcks, now performing with Housewives’
Choice and forging a career as a solo singer. The song is ‘The
Trees they are so High’ from the Devon singer James Parsons,
known to Sabine Baring-Gould as ‘The Singing Machine’. Martin
Graebe writes about James Parsons.
Marilyn
Tucker on the Baring-Gould Folk Song School.
This issue’s tunes feature comes from Shropshire, and is entitled
‘The Shropshire Hero’. by Neil Brooke
Cecil Sharp
House’s regular Scottish Ceilidh Club by Robbie
Thomas
Christine Rogers examines the Dances in Jane Austen’s
novels.
Gavin Atkin on folk song, music and dance activities in Lewes,
Sussex
Sound Files from Ed Rennie and Neil
Brookes & Tony Weatherall
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A
focus on the music, song and dance of Dorset as well
as features on new EFDSS publications.
‘The Gleanings of Mr Sharp’s Harvest’ looks
at the song collecting of Henry and Robert Hammond in
Dorset in the early 20th century. A selection of the songs was published
in 1965 in the EFDSS song book Marrow Bones, now completely revised
and published once again.
The regular ‘Singer, Song and Source’ feature focuses on Faustus,
with band member Paul Sartin writing about the song ‘I am a
Brisk Lad’ collected from a distant relative, Edith Sartin.
The Thomas Hardy family tune books are re-examined by Dave Townsend
in an article ‘One Rattling Randy After Another, and there
is Dave’s arrangement of the tune ‘The Triumph’.
To round
off the Dorset theme, editor Derek Schofield looks again at the county’s
best known folk dance, ‘The Dorset Four-Hand Reel’.
Sound files
from The Mellstock Band, Faustus and The Gloworms. |
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69-1
Spring 2007 |
Tim
van Eyken and his version of ‘John Barleycorn’ learnt from
Fred Jordan are this issue’s Singer, Song and Source feature.
The new Radio Ballads.
John Tams, Musical Director of the new Radio Ballads, explains how and
why …
Rapper from High Spen and Black Swan
Two features on different styles of rapper sword dances: the traditional
High Spen as they celebrate their eightieth anniversary, and the innovative
Black Swan. Contributed by Chris Metherell, Phil Heaton, Damien Barber
and Joan Crump.
The Somerset Folk Map:
Yvette Staelens explains why Somerset has its own map.
Regular Features:
Branching Out; Festive Round-Up; Lives Remembered, Songs under the Microscope;
News; Dancing with the Spring in your step (list of dance events); EFDSS
Matters; and The Source (list of county contacts). |
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issue complements the EFDSS book and CD, Traveller’s Joy, and has
a special theme:
The Music, Song and Dance of Gypsies and Travellers
Why Gypsies? Why Travellers? – Mike Yates (compiler of Traveller’s
Joy) explains the enduring interest in the folklore of Gypsies and Travellers.
The Singer, Song and Source:
The Singer is Devon Gypsy, Jean Orchard …
the Song is ‘A Wager, A Wager’ …
and the Source is Jean’s mother, Amy Birch.
See sound file.
The Fiddle Tunes of John Locke – a Gypsy fiddler whose tunes were
noted by Cecil Sharp, which in turn inspired John Kirkpatrick’s
music. Notations of three tunes are included.
Reviews
– including Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Nic Jones, Waterson:Carthy,
Swarb’s Lazarus, The Dartmoor Pixie Band, Jackie Oates, John Kirkpatrick,
Mawkin, Pete Cooper, Barry Lister, Robert Harbron & Emma Reid, Paul
& Liz Davenport, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, The Albion Band, MidWinter,
Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher, Ron Taylor & Jeff Gillett, Bodega,
Belzebub, Matt Norman. |
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Autumn 2006 |
A Hampshire Special
Voices from Hampshire – Bob Askew looks at George Gardiner’s
folk song collecting in the county.
Community Singing – Derek Schofield investigates the popularity
of community choirs.
The Singers, Song and Source: The Singers (Alton Community Choir from
Hampshire) … the Song (Polly Vaughan) … and the Source (William
Bone and Mrs Matthews). See sound file.
Hampshire Folks: folk music and dance organisations in the county.
A Pyle of Tunes from Hampshire – Bob Shatwell looks at the Pyle
manuscript tune book and CD.
A Smaller Pyle of Dances from Hampshire – the ms also included
the notations of ten dances.
Folk Songs and Hymn Tunes – Julian Onderdonk
Knees up at Cecil Sharp House – Florence Bearman on this regular
ceilidh series. |
Gold Badge Award to Tony Engle – citation by Reg Hall.
Peter Kennedy Remembered.
Regular Features:
Festive Round-Up; Lives Remembered, Songs under the Microscope; News;
Dancing in the Season of Mellow Fruitfulness (list of dance events);
EFDSS Matters; Letters; The Source.
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| A
48-page summer special featuring:
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).
The Rakes’ Progress – Fifty years of The Rakes – Sean
Goddard
Norfolk to Chester via Michigan and eBay – a newly-discovered Norfolk
tune book
The Library goes Live – the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Online
DERT! – the annual rapper competition.
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. |
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Summer 2006 |
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68–
1 Spring 2006 |
The
Singers, Song and Source: The Singers (Lauren McCormick & Emily Portman)
… the Song (The Seeds of Love) … the Source (George ‘Pop’
Maynard). See sound files.
From Folkworks to Folk
Degree – Alistair Anderson
Four Years in Newcastle: An Apprenticeship of Learning – Sandra,
Kerr, Vic Gammon, Fay Hield and current under-graduates.
Folk Britannia
– a review of the BBC4 series – Derek Schofield
Century-old Folk Song Manuscript Recovered – Gerald Porter
Will Atkinson’s
Tune; ‘Ninety Three Not Out – Derek Schofield
Branching
Out – BBC Folk Awards
Reviews
– including The Anglo Concertina Music of William Kimber by Dan
M. Worrall (Vic Gammon), Sara Grey, Pauline Cato, James Raynard, Flook,
Catriona McKay & Chris Stout, Brian Peters, Anna Tabbush, Crucible,
Davy Graham, Bruce Scott, The Askews, Alan Bell, 422, Jim Causley, CrossCurrent,
The Halliard. |
Lincolnshire
– Special Issue!
To celebrate the centenary of Percy Grainger’s first folk song
collecting in Lincolnshire in 1905, - when he heard Joseph Taylor singing
‘Brigg Fair’ and ‘Creeping Jane’ – this
issue has a special feature on Lincolnshire and Grainger’s collecting.
This issue also sees the start of a new series – The Singer, Song
and Source. The first in this series features Eliza Carthy, the song
‘Worcester City’ and the singer from whom she learnt the
song, Joseph Taylor.
Tunes
from Lincolnshire – Johnny Adams and Chris Partington. Dance,
Sing and Play in Lincolnshire
Steve Heap: Gold Badge Citation. Dancing on English Ground – Colin
Irwin
English Traditional Music from East Anglia – Katie Howson - 40
Years of Whitby Folk – Graham Pirt
Folk Dance Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Derek Schofield
.... and more ..... plus sound files
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- 3 Autumn 2005 |
Autumn
2005
Special
in this issue! - Nelson’s Death
The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Admiral
Lord Nelson are being marked in the Autumn 2005 issue of English Dance
& Song magazine with several features which illustrate the popularity
of this British admiral, as seen through folk songs, tunes and dances.
Branching
Out – Nettlebed Folk Club; Jabbour & Perlman; Womex; The Copper
Archive.
Lives Remembered – including Frank Harte; Leonard Luckwill; Hedy
West; Gwen Dilke; Joan Roe; Bob Ross; Joe Scurfield & Keith Morris.
Reviews – including New Scorpion Band; Coope, Boyes and Simpson;
Whapweasel; Mary Humphreys & Anahata; Barry Dransfield; Chris Bartram;
Dr Faustus; Boka Halat; Stephen Baldwin.
Plus
sound files.
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Black and White Issue?– Derek Schofield (the custom of
blacking up)
Tapatak – Frances Watt
A Young Man’s Lamentation – Dungbeetle
Geoff Rye Gold Badge Citation – Mike Wilson-Jones
Cecil Sharp House – a Celebration– Hazel Miller &
Derek Schofield (75th anniversary)
A Toast to Bob– Andrew King (a review of
the celebration of Bob Copper’s life)
The Last Waltz – Spectator *The Alan Lomax Archive
Education Update – Diana Campbell Jewitt
Branching Out – Son Townsend of Bampton Morris; Dave Swarbrick;
Dirty Old Town; Mitchell and Kenyon films; National Folk Music Festival;
Vic Gammon
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Lives Remembered – including Cyril Tawney; Walter
Abson; Wendy Knight.
Reviews
– including Eliza Carthy; The Bismarcks; Bob Davenport; The Houghton
Band; Song Links 2; June Tabor; 3D; Martin Simpson.
Regular Features:
Festive Round-Up; Songs under the Microscope; Letters |
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- 1 Spring 2005 |
St
George’s Day – Derek Schofield * A Song for Saint
George – John Kirkpatrick
Strictly Come Folk Dancing – Spectator * Top Bismarcks!
– Gavin Atkin
Steyning Tipteers’ Play – Sean Goddard * John of
Hazelgreen – Dungbeetle
Farewell to X – a dance by Maurice Dunnett * Session Tunes
from the Newcastle Courant
Branching Out – Norma Waterson Hon DMus; Misdemeanours, Folk Archive,
BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards, BBC Folk Awards 2005, Sidmouth Folk Week
2005.
Lives Remembered – including Martyn Bennett, Cathie
Stewart, Margaret Fay Shaw, Mikeen McCarthy, Ian Graham, Maurice Courtney,
Sid Long
Reviews – including Dear Companion book; Dearman, Gammon & Harrison;
Orange & Blue and The Ranchers.
Regular Features:
Festive Round-Up; Songs under the Microscope; Letters
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Where
available, back copies of the magazines can be bought from
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY.
priced £2.50 plus £1 postage.
Tel. Sales on
0207 485 2206 or email folkshop@efdss.org |
