68-2 Summer 2006

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). See sound file.

The Rakes’ Progress – Fifty years of The Rakes – Sean Goddard

From Norfolk to Chester via Michigan and eBay – a newly-discovered Norfolk tune book - Lyn Law. See sound files.

The Library goes Live – the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Online – Richard Butterworth & Malcolm Taylor.

DERT! – the annual rapper competition.

May Day – Doc Rowe – a new book of May customs.

Nibs Matthews Remembered – Ron Smedley pays tribute to the former Director of the EFDSS.

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.

Regular Features:

Festive Round-Up; Lives Remembered, Songs under the Microscope; News; Dancing in the Summer (list of dance events); EFDSS Matters; Letters; The Source.

Music Credits

Sound files are included here in conjunction with this issue:

The Cuckoo and the Nightingale – specially recorded for EDS by Mary Humphreys and Anahata

‘Kerry Polka / I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue’ – The Rakes, from The Red Haired Lad, Fellside FECD122. With grateful thanks to Paul Adams of Fellside.

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Three tunes featured in the EDS article and some extras