News and Comment No.45 |
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1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - | The Ghost Ship When I Went a-Fishing Maids When Youre Young Before Daylight in the Morning Rhymes and Sea Lore The Maids of Australia A Reckless Young Fellow The Girls Around Cape Horn The Wild Rover The Oyster Girl As I Lay a-Musing A Sailor's Alphabet Duckfoot Sue Clear Away the Morning Dew Sing to the Oak No Sir, No Sir Old Bob Ridley-O When I was Single The Golden Fenadier The Wild and Wicked Youth Now Is the Time for Fishing & talk I Wish, I Wish The Dockyard Gate Green Broom The Dolphin The Old Miser The Skipper and his Boy Blackberry Fold The Wreck of the Lifeboat Outlandish Knight The Tanyard side Will Watch Talk Total: | 4:09 0:22 2:36 1:19 4:15 3:53 0:43 1:57 2:35 1:40 1:15 3:33 0:45 2:22 2:20 4:14 1:45 0:22 2:42 1:07 2:36 1:54 1:45 2:11 2:54 1:09 0:45 3:12 0:21 3:15 2:13 4:04 3:51 74:20 | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - | The Bold Princess Royal The Captain's Whiskers The Bonny Bunch of Roses King William & talk Happy and Delightful The Chesapeake and Shannon Coil Away the Trawl Warp The Jolly Young Coachman The Loss of the Ramillies She Said she was a Virgin Game of All Fours The Wonderful Crocodile Donnelly and Cooper Cruising Round Yarmouth Barbara Allan Barney and Kitty Green Grow the Laurels The London Steamer The Bold Young Fisherman Windy Old Weather & talk The Haymakers' Courtship Henry Martin Just as the Tide was Flowing The Dogger Bank Over There in Ireland The Dark-Eyed Sailor Butter and Cheese Napoleon's Dream Spurn Point The Barley Straw Bold General Wolfe The White Squall Scarborough Fair Town Final talk Total: | 4:02 0:24 2:27 1:16 3:39 0:40 1:58 2:34 1:30 1:10 3:36 0:49 2:22 2:18 4:56 2:00 0:27 2:45 1:44 2:51 1:47 3:26 2:06 2:10 3:06 2:54 3:15 3:17 0:37 1:04 1:22 0:34 4:00 1:02 74:25 |
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But, most of all, it's the startling quality of his singing which is so impressive. Price £16.00 + p&p on the MT Records website.
3.12.14
I recognise that folk clubs are not seen as relevant any more by you, but I think it worth a mention on your site that Birtley Folk Club, in its 52nd year, is ceasing trading as of the annual Christmas Party on December 17th. Doreen and Bryan are still as sprightly as ever, but interest has waned amongst even the North East folk people.
Best wishes
Peter Wood - 23.11.14
However, the widespread use of Tablets has presented a problem - they don't have a cursor! So, for tablet users - 'tap and hold' on the asterisk or photo will reveal the information, so I'm told.
11.11.14
Fuller details are on the ECMW Page, where updates will be posted as soon as they're available.
15.10.14
Membership £2 annually, payable on the door. Admission for members £6, concessions £4, non-members £7, concessions £5.
9.10.14
Available for free downloading from: www.firedrive.com
22.8.14
Siar an Bóthar is the Irish-language version of the RTÉ archival television series on traditional music Come West along the Road, which first began transmission in September 1994. A total of 28 series have been broadcast since in English and Irish, each of 13 parts, with footage being drawn mainly from the RTÉ Television Programme Library but also from UTV, BBC Northern Ireland, and other institutional and private sources. The resulting 364 programmes have brought contextualised historical performances by over 3,000 musicians, singers and dancers to the screen, ranging in time from 1929 to 1994. A generation of young traditional performers and new audiences have been introduced to the personalities and varied social history of the art, and older viewers brought forgotten or never-seen performances.
Both series have been researched and presented since their inception by Nicholas Carolan, Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin. CWAR was originally devised by Tony Mac Mahon of RTÉ, and the series have since been produced and directed by ten other RTÉ and TG4 staff members, with the essential assistance of video editors, archivists and production crews. From an initial late-night showing on RTÉ Network 2, CWAR quickly moved to a prime-time RTÉ 1 slot on Friday evenings. Its latest series had a real-time audience of up to 240,000 viewers per episode, and in addition an audience throughout the world on the RTÉ Player and the TG4 Player. Four DVDs of highlights from the series have been published by RTÉ. They are available from RTÉ and from the ITMA online shop.
ITMA - 20.8.14
No reason for the ending of the series was given in the press release - Ed.
I was recently notified of this by a friend, who asked why I had agreed to allowing some of my field recordings to be used this way. I wish to state that at no time had I been approached by the person/people behind this. Had I been asked for permission to use these recordings in this manner, then I would have refused permission. As this now seems to be a fait accompli there seems little that I can do, except pass on my feeling of disgust at whoever chose to act in such an underhand manner.
Mike Yates - 19.7.14
Having investigated this travesty via Google, I find that it has been perpetrated by one Sam Callow, who appears to be based in Reims, France - and so may believe himself to be immune from UK copyright laws. However, it's my understanding that copyright law is certainly Europe-wide, if not world-wide. Callow's horrible work (he can't even keep in time with the singing!) is clearly in breach of these laws, and I hope the record companies involved will prosecute him for it. I alerted Bandcamp to Callow's illegal product that they were making available, and the page has now been taken down. Ed.
Malcolm Taylor OBE to leave post as Director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society's (EFDSS)
library and archive, the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
I would assume that this means Malcolm's retiring, although the announcement gives no reason for his leaving.
Rod Stradling - 30.4.14
The original manuscripts from which the transcriptions come are also available in original facsimile here as they were donated to ITMA. You can use the interactive scores to play the melodies on your computer, read them from screen, or print them out using the attached PDF versions; for an introduction to our Interactive Scores facility click here.
20.4.14
For more information, and for the complete list of titles, visit http://www.folkways.si.edu/unesco
Fred McCormick - 8.4.14
2.4.14
Not the sort of thing you'd normally expect to find in a seed catalogue - but then Franchi Seeds (Seeds of Italy) are not your average seedsmen. The 2014 catalogue is their 230th anniversary edition - yes, they started in 1783 when the Montgolfier baloon flew over Paris, and have been a family firm for seven generations!
So, anyone with an old Italian accordion might do far worse than to contact Vincenzo Franchi at: enquiry@vincenzoaccordions.co.uk, and any of you keen on gardening might find the 2014 Seeds of Italy catalogue a very worthwhile read - available from: www.seedsofitaly.com
Rod Stradling - 1.4.14
Chris Brady - 14.3.14
Critics Group member, who wishes to remain anonymous - 25.2.14
And of course, it was Johnny who ran the night as only he could; it was notable that he refrained from dismantling the concert grand-he must have mellowed in old age. A wider variety entertained the crowd in the second half, culminating in an inspirational short speech from Louis' ex-wife Margaret who had not only looked after Louisa as she was dying, but flew over from Montana specially for this concert. This was followed by the song he was most associated with, Pleasant and Delightful. If you wish to get a flavour of the night, the finale is available on YouTube.
Peter Wood - 23.1.14
I have placed a quantity of my publications on the Academia.edu website. If you search for ‘Vic Gammon AND Academia.edu’ or go direct to https://newcastle.academia.edu/VicGammon you can see the page. Many of the papers are available as pdf. (which can be downloaded) or contain links to sites where the articles are available on line. If you want to explore the website you have to connect with your Facebook or Google log-in (neither of which I have but I am informed many people do!) or register with the site. If you find anything is not available that you would like to read, please contact me, at: vic.gammon@newcastle.ac.uk
By all means send this information on to anyone who might be interested.
Vic Gammon - 2.1.14
I've just had a very quick look, and can confirm that some 64 articles are available, and that the one on Bert Lloyd and the English Traditional Ballads is fascinating. Ed.
Peter Wood - 28.11.13
Because we have both released essentially the same double CD in the past month - without either of us being aware of it! Yes, both Forest Tracks and MT Records have just released double CDs of The Willett Family, from the recordings made by Ken Stubbs in the 1950s. Both are presented in DVD cases together with substantial booklets.
This is not the place to go into the details of how this happened - a lack of communication, stretching right back to the '70s and '80s, and running seamlessly right on to 20013. Suffice it to say that both of us were horrified to discover, just this week, that this had happened, and that we were, individually, completely unaware of the other's work on these releases. Nor were we capable of understanding how it had happened until we were able to compare notes on the processes that led up to our publications.
You may be able to imagine how we felt - and how we do feel about the possibility of both sets of CDs being reviewed in the same publications! Paul Marsh joins me in apologising to our respective customers, and to everybody else who'll be having a great laugh about this ... we suppose we deserve it!
However, what doesn't deserve it are the two splendid double CDs of some of the greatest English Gypsy singing ever recorded. We hope that you will buy a copy of one or the other of them.
Rod Stradling and Paul Marsh - 27.10.13
The Song Collectors Collective was set up in 2012 with the purpose of celebrating those people conserving this rare folk culture within their family and communities in the UK, Ireland & beyond. The SCC would like to acknowledge the generous funding from the Arts Council Ireland and support from The Nest Collective.
The collective and its extensive web resources are also aimed at up-skilling and empowering a new generation of collectors while inspiring the on-going exploration of and creativity within folk and roots culture. The SCC is a unique and expanding archive of living traditional folk song, lore and story and the tool kit of how to research this material today.
With the recent launch of the ‘Full English Project’ by the English Folk Dance and Song Society the world has recently gained access to a vast new repository of manuscript music collected up until the second world war. The SCC seeks to add to this public collection by making available never before heard sounds and films of singers and songs deemed to be extinct in the oral tradition. This material has been recorded mostly from living members of the Irish Traveller, Scots Traveller and English Gypsy as well as wider settled community. The SCC celebrates not just the songs but the ‘Tradition Bearers’ themselves each of whose unique page is full of resource material about the singer or teller with photos and films and inbuilt sounds listening posts.
Despite wide assumption within the folk community that all the traditional singers have long passed away and no more material exists within the oral tradition, it has become quite evident there is still a wealth of music and tales unrecorded within the minds of singers who have never before encountered the wider traditional music community. The SCC was established to make sure that on-going documentation of this indigenous folk art is attempted before the last carriers of our native arts passed on. It also seeks to make sure that the communities that have kept this material alive have full and permanent access to their ancestral songs and stories.
The Website initially hosts 13 profiles of singers from across the British Isles and Ireland and hosts over 250 songs and stories and over 10 films. Each song is downloadable through the Soundcloud widget. The SCC also hosts a program of workshops, concerts and seminars exploring the on-going art of field recording.
www.songcollectorscollective.co.uk
Sam Lee - 10.9.13
Further info at: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic and www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
6.9.13
Bookings of possible interest for autumn/winter 2013:
2.9.13
1.8.13
The following members are known: the seated man with violin second from right is Herbert Smith; the bearded man standing at the right is Emmerson Shorting (probably the band's leader); and the tall man third from left in the back row (discounting the bass player standing to the side) is Herbert Pye.
Unfortunately nobody has been able to identify the other members. Any readers with further information about any of the participants should please contact Chris Holderness at: christopherholderness@gmail.com
30.7.13
He adds that he has now done a security check and re-set his passwords, and so should not have further problems.
4.7.13
The basis of the microsite is a body of recordings made in Inishowen over some 20 years from the 1980s by Donegal singer and teacher Jimmy McBride and kindly donated by him to the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Material has also come from singer Jim MacFarland of Derry, the Belfast Central Library, the Derry Journal, and Dr John Moulden, among other donors as acknowledged, and above all from the local Inishowen singers and singers visiting Inishowen who are featured in the project. Our thanks to them all. Digitisation, song transcription and metadata cataloguing has been carried out over months by ITMA staff.
The site will serve people throughout the world who wish to discover and enjoy the song traditions of Inishowen, and especially Inishowen people themselves and their local teachers and students. New material of suitable quality will continue to be added to the site as it is found. The design and technology involved in the project will form a template for the future online presentation of other discrete traditions within Irish traditional music.
2.4.13
A Somerset Scrapbook (MTCD252) is now available from our MT Records website, and follows the same format as our House Dance CD-ROM of 2012, although it should perhaps be of greater interest to most MT readers. It contains: mini-biographies of nine singers and the texts and MP3 sound files of 22 of their songs; nine musicians with 12 of their tunes as MP3 sound files; five story tellers with 10 of their stories as both text and MP3 files. There are also eight accounts of various Somerset traditions. All of the above are well illustrated by some excellent photographs.
Rod Stradling - 5.3.13
You can add your name to the campaign by following this link and signing the Change.org petition.
6.2.13
The good news is that he has been allocated a new home in Ardara in a modern block of sheltered housing and can move in very soon. For further news, contact Peta Webb at: petawebken@aol.com
5.2.13
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