68-3 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 the new book of tunes and accompanying CD drawn from the collection.

A Smaller Pyle of Dances from Hampshire – the manuscript book also included the notations of ten dances.

Folk Songs and Hymn Tunes – Julian Onderdonk celebrates the centenary of The English Hymnal, for which Vaughan Williams used many traditional tunes.

Knees up at Cecil Sharp House – young contributor Florence Bearman explains the enduring attraction of 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.

Reviews – including Bellowhead, The Devil’s Interval, Shona Kipling & Damien O’Kane, Tim van Eyken, Viv Legg, Rattle on the Stovepipe, Tom and Barbara Brown, The Climax Ceilidh Band, Hoover the Dog, Scottish children’s songs, Joe Boyd’s White Bicycles (book and CD), Hampshire Dance Tunes (book and CD), Ken Sheffield’s From Two Barns, Veteran, Fellside and Greentrax compilations.

Music credits

Sound files are included here in conjunction with this issue:

Three versions of the song Polly Vaughan, as featured in the Singers, Song and Source article.

Polly Vaughan – specially recorded for EDS by Alton Community Choir. Recorded by Nick Sowden.

Polly Vaughan – by Craig; Morgan; Robson (below) – from their forthcoming CD. By kind permission of Craig; Morgan; Robson.

Polly Vaughan – by Cheryl Jordan – from the CD Folk Songs from Hampshire and Dorset. By kind permission of the Forest Tracks label. www.forest-tracks.co.uk

Barber of Seville / Earl of Rosslen / Chainess Dance – Matthew Green and Andy Turner from the CD Hampshire Dance Tunes, WGS325CD. By kind permission of WildGoose Records. www.wildgoose.co.uk