No 89 - The Sailor's Songbag, A collection of songs assembled in 1778, by Peter Wood. 28.6.21
No 88 - The Bold Privateer, earliest versions? by Peter Wood. 5.5.21
No 87 - Endless Ballads: stop 'em being 'long and boring', by Rod Stradling 6.12.20
No 86 - Paddy Fahey; an appreciation, by Ken Ricketts & Marya Parker 12.6.19
No 85 - A Celebration of the Belfast Linen Hall Library's Beath Collection, and the Bicentennial of the Irish Harp Society of Belfast (1819-39) 21.5.19
No 84 - Before the Broadside: some replies 22.4.19
No 83 - Alfred Williams and the Great War: Armistice Day Reflections, by Andrew Bathe 11.11.18
No 82 - Tommy Peoples - an appreciation, by Ken Ricketts & Marya Parker. 10.8.18
No 81 - '… rather liltingly scraped' : Frank Smith, Romany fiddler, by Phil Heath-Coleman. 18.11.17
No 80 - The Ratcatcher's Daughter: text and context, by Roly Brown. 14.7.17
No 79 - Kertland and Miss Bailey revisited, by Roly Brown. 27.4.17
No 78 - The Ups and Downs: A look back at a life, by Rod Stradling. 20.11.16
No 77 - The Battle of Boulogne: another Nelson ballad, by Roly Brown. 8.7.16
No 76 - A Note on William Kertland, by Roly Brown. 20.3.16
No 75 - Harlaw Battle and its Ballads - a responce to Letters, by Ian Olson. 1.12.14
No 74 - Harlaw Battle and its Ballads - a re-appraisal, by Ian Olson. 10.11.14
No 73 - Henry Hurton, Printer, Louth, by Roly Brown. 8.7.14
No 72 - The Song of the Plough: Ralph Bates (1899 - 2000), by Mike Yates. 14.7.14
No 71 - "The Provost was all for it": The Blairgowrie Festivals, 1967-1970, by Jim Bainbridge. 24.10.12
No 70 - The Irish Traditional Music Archive: the first 25 years. 29.7.12
No 69 - A Different Country: a view on 'political correctness', by Mike Yates. 18.2.12
No 68 - Hardin's Defeat (Roud 3603), new research by Mike Yates. 9.5.11
No 67 - JSP Records: An Appreciation, by Mike Yates. 14.4.11
No 66 - Shiyani Ngcobo: An Appreciation, by Richard Haslop. 5.4.11
No 65 - A West African Feast: the BL's West African Decca 78s, by Ray Templeton. 30.9.09
No 64 - Fifty Years of Service: Reg Hall and the Bampton Morris Dancers, by Keith Chandler. 10.1.09
No 63 - Copenhagen 1801: Nelson and Parker in the Baltic - Roly Brown comments on another piece of Nelson balladry. 10.1.09
No 62 - Traveller Times: Vic Smith finds a 1926 Dumfries photo of fourteen members of the extended Stewart family in this online resource. 24.11.08
No 61 - ITMA at 21: The Irish Traditional Music Archive celebrates its first 21 years and issues a policy statement for the future. 31.7.08
No 60 - Another Nelson piece: Roly Brown comments on an addition to Nelson balladry. 30.7.07
No 59 - Echoes of Our Forgotten Ancestors: Rod Stradling attempts to whet your appetite for Victor Grauer's blog on the part musical styles can play in validating the 'Out of Africa' theory of human migrations. 16.6.07
No 58 - Seeking Out the Harland Road: Mike Yates hunts for further information on Walter Pardon's song. 19.4.07
No 57 - John Stratford and Richard Carlile further information on MT article 201, by Roly Brown 17.5.07
No 56 - The Magpies' Nests Online Listening to traditional music in national collections, by Ray Templeton 2.4.07
Readers should note that Enthusiasms Nos 54 & 55 on John Jervis and Adam Duncan, by Roly Brown (prevoiusly found here), now form part of Article No 192: Duncan, Jarvis and Lord Howe ...
No 53 - Peter Kennedy: an appraisal the start of 'an open and critical debate on Peter's lifework', by Rod Stradling 14.9.06
No 52 - The 'other' Amphitrite: the ballad of the Australian transport ship, by Roly Brown 26.8.06
No 51 - Pellew: Lord Exmouth and the Battle of Algiers, by Roly Brown 30.12.05
No 50 - Nena Sahib: broadside ballads on the Indian Mutiny, by Roly Brown 26.11.05
No 49 - The wrecking of Princess Alice: two newly discovered broadside ballads, by Roly Brown 19.11.05
No 48 - Henry Butler and song dissemination, by Roly Brown 29.9.05
No 47 - Keith Summers' missing LPs - the end of the story 26.8.05
No 46 - Correspondence ... on the Around the Hills of Clare review 9.5.05
No 45 - The Arethusa: a peculiarly English glory - a history of a song and a tune ... and much more, by Roly Brown. 29.3.05
No 44 - Dave Williams: pipemaker - an appreciation of his life and work, by Ken Ricketts & Marya Parker. 8.11.04
No 43 - My Ideal Song Book - proposing the world's first singer-friendly song book. Rod Stradling with a germ of an idea. 19.1.04
No 42 - Mark Wyatt and his Songs - more on networking. See also: A further note on Mark Wyatt at bottom of article. Roly Brown discusses the early collectors' networking and its results. 9.12.04
No 41 - A Folk Song ... by any other name - Jim Carroll with further discussion on the repertoire of traditional singers. 5.10.03
No 40 - The Other Songs - Mike Yates discusses the broader repertoire of traditional singers. 27.8.03
No 39 - A Gorgio amongst Travellers - some experiences and observations, by David Stacey. 2.6.03
No 38 - Baring-Gould: a note on networking - Roly Brown discusses the early collectors' networking and its results. 29.5.03
No 37 - A Wonderful New Website - Keith Chandler reviews www.oldbaileyonline.org. 10.3.03
No 36 - Jumping to Conclusions - Mike Yates examines a row that is bubbling away beneath the surface of British folksong scholarship. 8.3.03
No 35 - The Singing Miller - investigation and comments - by Roly Brown. 6.2.03
No 34 - The Singing Miller - who were the song carriers? - by Keith Chandler. 6.1.03
No 33 - Thomas Willey (1795-1861) - Cheltenham Ballad Printer and Chartist - by Roy Palmer. 27.10.02
No 32 - Sheet Music - as a research tool for traditional song - by George Frampton. 10.8.02
No 31 - A Nest of Singing Birds - Annex - Mike Yates presents some more pictures of Cecil Sharp's Madison County singers 3.7.02
No 30 - Matters of Texture, Function and Context - Rod Stradling sounding off again about traditional and revival singing 12.2.02
No 29 - The Roud Indexes - an overview of Steve Roud's Folk Song and Broadside computer indexes - by Rod Stradling 5.1.02
No 28 - Jali Sherrifo Konteh - a CD and its story - by Vic Smith 12.12.01
No 27 - Albert Richardson - 1905-1976 - a brief biography - by Michael Oakley 22.10.01
No 26 - Correspondence ... on The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin book and CDs 10.7.01
No 25 - Sam Sherry acrobatic and clog dancer. An appreciation of his life, by Derek Schofield. 2.6.01
No 24 - John Johnson. a new CD of 1947 recordings of a phenomenal young fiddler from the West Virginia University Press, soon to be available from MT. Hear some sound clips from a pre-production CD-R. 2.2.01
No 23 - Put a Bit of Gunpowder on it, Father. more controversy ... this time, engendered by the seemingly uncontroversial Walter Pardon CD booklet notes. 14.9.00
No 22 - Who Owns the Game? ... a question of Cultural Patrimony. Mike Yates asks whether our ideas of song copyright and ownership are due for a shake-up. 8.8.00
No 21 - The 1000 Year Journey ... in two contrasting fragments. Danny Stradling reports on two very different Barbican concerts. 26.5.00
No 20 - Music of the Chatham Islands - a few impressions after a Millennial week visit to these New Zealand islands, by Geoff Woolfe. 26.4.00
No 19 - Keith's Quickies - some short reviews of good things which Mr Summers found behind the sofa and should really have been included in paper MT No 13, back in 1994! Now with sound clips. 16.4.00
No 18 - The Unknown John Lee Hooker
- the amazing story of a forthcoming CD of 1949 recordings - by Gene Deitch 22.3.00
No 17 - 'Warts an' 'all' - some personal reminiscences of that great singer, Gordon Hall - by Keith Chandler 12.3.00
No 16 - Online Record Buying - up-to-date info on buying from UK based Web Stores 17.1.00
No 15 - Lisbon ... and Fado - Rod and Danny Stradling find that Fado is alive and well ... in the hands of some very young singers. 12.12.99
No 14 - Danny Brazil: last of the line - Paul Burgess' obituary to Danny Brazil and an outline of the rest of that famous Gloucestershire traveller family ... plus a repertoire list. 27.10.99
No 13 - The missing Radio Ballads - Ian Campbell on the two Charles Parker programmes which seem to have been excised from the canon. 13.9.99
No 12 - Samuel Charters: The day is so long and the wages so small - Music on a summer island - Keith Chandler eulogises his book of the year. 27.6.99
No 11 - Buying CDs from a UK address - Jennifer Harding and Roger Johnson discusses the possibilities and their experience of them. Opportunities for readers to send in their own suggestions and experiences. 7.10.99
No 10 - Bluegrass: the enigma - David Campbell muses on the 'be-bop of country music'. 6.6.99
No 9 - What Record Collectors do on their Holidays (if they're lucky) - Keith Chandler pillages the record stores of Canada. 3.6.99
No 8 - The Sunday Newspaper Test - is modern 'traditional style' music missing the most important things the traditional performers have to teach us? - E Mairi MacArthur. 20.3.99
No 7 - Quis custodiet ... or who will review the reviewers? - a plea for clarity, rigour and substance in music journalism - E Mairi MacArthur. 20.3.99
No 6 - The Loss of the English Traditions - how come the English have lost, or abandoned, their traditional culture sooner and more thoroughly than most other nations? - Fred McCormick, Julie Hennigan and Rod Stradling discuss some ideas. 3.11.98
No 5 - Valiha High - helping to rebuild and strengthen a Malagasy tradition - Hanitrarivo Rasoanaivo. 28.9 98
No 4 - Music in Dunblane - traditional folk music is alive and kicking in Braveheart Country - Colin Douglas. 28.10.97
No 3 - Definitions - John Moulden's ideas on the tradition, and some rules of thumb about what, how and where to sing. 6.11.97
No 2 - Working with a Melodeon in the Wider Community - Dave Williams' final thoughts. 25.10.97
No 1 - Traditional? - an intentionally contentious piece from Rod Stradling. 22.5.97
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