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News and Comment No.36 |
Among the many friends and colleagues taking part will be Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, Louis Killen, Mike Waterson, Shep Woolley, Roy Harris, Doc Rowe, Martyn Wyndham-Read and Iris Bishop, Roy Clinging, Les Barker, Tim Laycock, Heather Wood, and a contingent from the West of England, including the Dartmoor Pixie Band with their caller Sarah Bazeley, Jim Causley, Ed Rennie, Tim van Eyken, Hanging Johnny, The Claque and Graham O'Callaghan. In the afternoon, a Westcountry Revel with entertainment by the Westcountry performers including dancing to the Dartmoor Pixie Band, will highlight Cyril's strong regional connections. Following this, Shep Woolley and friends will present Hands to Dance and Skylark, Shep's programme about Cyril's seminal work on the traditional songs of the modern Royal Navy. The bill for the evening concert will include many of England's leading performers of traditional songs and music. Throughout the day Doc Rowe's audiovisual exhibition, which documents aspects of Cyril and his work, will be on display and there will be ample opportunity to socialise at singarounds and in the bar.
Afternoon (12 - 6.30pm) £12; Evening Concert (8 - 11pm) £15; Combined ticket £25. Tickets will be on sale in October from: 'Celebrating Cyril' c/o English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, 2, Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY. Cheques payable to 'EFDSS'. Envelopes to be marked 'Celebrating Cyril'. For credit card payments contact EFDSS: Telephone 020 7485 2206 or email: info@efdss.org General enquiries to jsteel@clara.co.uk
14.8.06
Doc's was presented at Tate Britain on 7th July, citation by Malcolm Taylor, Tony's will be presented at Sidmouth Festival, Thursday 10th August, 11.30 - 1pm at the Manor Pavilion, citation by Reg Hall.
Texts of the citations will be published in the next issue of ED&S and will be available on www.efdss.org
3.8.06
27.7.06
Continuing the Traditional Song Forum's series of 'Life and Times' sessions, a unique chance to hear four of the most experienced collectors and commentators in the field of Irish traditional song: Jim Carroll, Pat Mackenzie, John Moulden, and Tom Munnelly.
27.7.06
Membership £1 annually, payable on the door. Admission for members £6, concessions £3.50, non-members £7, concessions £4.
5.7.06
I am now at home - the first hip having dislocated 4 times, they operated again last Friday and re-did the whole thing (two and a half hour op apparently). So I am now recuperating - I'm not allowed to drive for 12 weeks, so am relying on local friends for transport/shopping etc.
Perhaps you might like to put a bit in the 'News' section of MT so that people know I'm now at home.
Best wishes, sunshine and smiles
Dave Hunt - 28.6.06
Friday 22 September 2006
25.6.06
21.6.06
The Irish Traditional Music Archive, currently situated at No.63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, will be moving to new premises in July 2006 in order to improve and expand its public services and archival facilities. The Archive holds the largest collection in existence of the materials of Irish traditional music, and of information about it, which it makes available to the general public free of charge.
In recognition of the growth of its collections and services, and its potential for further development, the Archive has been allocated No.73 Merrion Square, a 200-year-old listed heritage building ten doors from its present premises in the centre of Georgian Dublin. The Office of Public Works, which is responsible for Government and historic buildings in the Republic of Ireland, is currently finishing high-grade conservation and restoration works on the building.
As advertised, the move to new premises will involve a period of closure for the Archive. From Monday 26 June the Archive will be packing its collections and dismantling its storage equipment for the move to its permanent home at No.73 Merrion Square. After a relatively brief period rehousing its collections, installing a new computer network, and setting up an audio-visual recording studio and various specialist rooms, it will reopen to the public there at 10:00 am on Monday 14 August.
During the period of closure, it will not be possible to access the Archive’s collections, and its query service (by phone, fax and letter) will be suspended. Archive staff will however be able to continue to a degree with their work on collection, conservation, cataloguing, field recording, publication, lecturing, consultation and broadcasting.
The Archive is financially supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
For further information check the Archive’s website at www.itma.ie or ring the Archive at +353-1-6619699
Nicholas Carolan - 20.6.06
Director
Fred McCormick - 13.6.06
Shirley Collins presents her new talk about the traditional songs of Southern English Gypsies, illustrated by field recordings, photographs and pictures. Told with affection, compassion and humour, it gives an insight into the lives of gypsies, and shows what a remarkable stock of songs they have, ranging from ancient ballads, carols and street cries, through to local and topical songs. The voices are unique and the performances beguiling and powerful. Don't miss it if you love English music.
8.6.06
The stepdance workshop will take place from 10am to midday and will be run by Simon Ritchie and will also feature Gypsy dancers Pam Buckley from Norfolk and Tom Orchard from Devon. From midday until 6pm there will be a big music and song session with the Old Hat Concert Party, Mary Humphreys and Anahata and the Orchard Family plus sepcial guests, and the stepdance competition will take place at 2.30pm. We are keen to encourage all-comers as well as experts into the competition - no clogs please, this is East Anglian style improvised stepping in hard-soled shoes.
Tickets for the day cost £5, and will be available on the door only, not in advance. The Riverside Centre is a few metres off the A12 in Stratford St Andrew, between Woodbridge and Saxmundham. There will be a real ale bar and light refreshments during the day.
Katie Howson - 22.5.06
East Anglian Traditional Music Trust
info@eatmt.fsnet.co.uk
www.eatmt.org.uk
http://library.efdss.org
Specialist libraries such as VWML live or die by the depth, breadth and effectiveness of their catalogues and indexes. Up until 1995, a number of these were created on cards and have proved invaluable tools for researchers at all levels. Since 1995, some have been continued in electronic formats while other have been converted or created from scratch electronically. The ultimate goal for VWML Online is to host digital catalogues and indexes to all its collections. This will take time and no doubt some serious funding, but for the moment we are launching some already developed by VWML, with the special bonus of hosting the Roud Folk Song Index.
Initially, we are making available the Collectors' Indexes. These focus on the performers from whom information was recorded by the collectors whose papers we hold either as originals or as copies. They give the performers' names, places of residence, dates of collection, any other additional notes to hand (such as age and occupation) and of course the manuscript references to the material collected. Where the manuscripts have been included in the Roud Folk Song Index, then song titles will also appear and, in the case of the Cecil Sharp index, photographic images of some of the singers. So far we have made available the aforementioned Sharp index and those for the manuscripts of George Gardiner, Henry and Robert Hammond, Lucy Broadwood, Maud Karpeles, Francis Collinson, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger. You will be able to search in individual fields of information (e.g. by name, place, county, country) or on multiple fields to narrow down your search. You will also be able to cross search all indexes at once, which throws up some interesting facts about performers who were visited by more than one collector, such as Henry Burstow of Horsham, Sussex (Broadwood and Vaughan Williams) and Amos Ash of Combe Florey, Somerset (Sharp and Hammond). We shall soon be adding indexes for Anne Geddes Gilchrist and Janet Blunt, so keep an eye on http://library.efdss.org
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000 references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is text based. In other words, it does not recognise tunes or tune types but is solely based on the textual content of the songs included. It provides references to songs, not the song texts themselves. Having found the song you are looking for you can then track down the reference at a library, the principal first source being VWML.
But we now need your help. VWML Online is a developing website and will be updated and added to regularly. If you find mistakes or wish to comment on the design and usefulness of the website, please let us know at library@efdss.org.
Malcolm Taylor - 5.5.06
VWML Librarian
Ring 0208 340 0530 to get yours.
3.5.06
The provisonal programme is as follows.
12.4.06
2.3.06
Obviously it's a bit short notice to put it onto the News page, but if people miss it tonight the Archive Hour can be heard via the web on BBC R4 Playback over the coming week.
11.2.06
I accidentally discovered that Henry Burstow’s Reminiscences of Horsham has now been published in full online by South Riding Folk Arts Network at: www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow.html What a fantastic resource the internet is!
John Shaw - 10.2.06
Mark Davies - 9.2.06
We are still looking for interested volunteers to help with finding material and obtaining permission to publish. If you can help, please let me know.
Steve Gardham - 7.2.06
gardhamz@gardhamz.karoo.co.uk
Bartók and Folk Music will remain on Radio 3's Listen Again feature for seven days after transmission. Go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 and follow the links.
Fred McCormick - 31.1.06
(b) Roy Palmer has pointed out that the street in Newent where Stephen Baldwin lived is now called Culver Street, rather than Culvert Street, as it was known when Stephen Baldwin was there. It seems it was originally called Culver (a local pronunciation of Coleford) Street, with Culvert Street a Victorian rationalisation. The original name has since been restored.
Roy has also pointed out that Gorseley, the sometime home of Fiddler Lock, is now spelt Gorsley.
(c) Just as the Tide was Flowing: although the related Blue-Eyed Stranger was noted quite often in the region, the use of Just as the Tide was Flowing as a tune (rather than a song) was not peculiar to Stephen Baldwin. Frank Kidson included a very similar version in his Traditional Tunes (1891).
Philip Heath-Coleman - 10.1.06
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