67-4 Winter 2005

Lincolnshire – Special Issue!

To celebrate the centenary of Percy Grainger’s first folk song collecting in Lincolnshire in 1905, - when he heard Joseph Taylor singing ‘Brigg Fair’ and ‘Creeping Jane’ – this issue has a special feature on Lincolnshire and Grainger’s collecting.

A full list of published references to Percy Grainger and his song collecting in Lincolnshire is available to download below.

‘I’ll sing you a very pretty song … concerning Creeping Jane’ – Derek Schofield (centenary of Percy Grainger’s first song collecting in Lincolnshire).

The Singer, Song and Source – start of a new series. The Singer (Eliza Carthy) … the Song (Worcester City) … the Source (Joseph Taylor).

Tunes from Lincolnshire – Johnny Adams and Chris Partington

Dance, Sing and Play in Lincolnshire

Steve Heap: Gold Badge Citation

Dancing on English Ground – Colin Irwin

English Traditional Music from East Anglia – Katie Howson

Goodbye Wonky – Sarah Shorten and Peta Webb

40 Years of Whitby Folk – Graham Pirt

Folk Dance Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Derek Schofield

Broken Ankles Clog Out – Penny Allen

Olympics 2012 – Spectator

Branching Out – Horn Dancing for 70 Years, Goathland Plough Stots, Sidmouth Mummers, Storytelling

Reviews –

including Community Dances Manual (Hugh Rippon), Spiers & Boden, Steve Tilston, Rachel Unthank, Random, Billy Bennington, June Tabor, John Kirkpatrick, Kieron Means, Chris Wood, The Witches of Elswick, John Tams, The Orchards, The Watersons.

Regular Features:

Festive Round-Up; Songs under the Microscope; News; list of dance events.

This issue also sees the start of a new series – The Singer, Song and Source. The first in this series features Eliza Carthy, the song ‘Worcester City’ and the singer from whom she learnt the song, Joseph Taylor.

Music Credits

Linked to these features, you can hear two songs and a tune here:

1. ‘Worcester City’ sung by Joseph Taylor. Recorded 1908. Recording courtesy of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

2. ‘Murder of Maria Martin’ sung by Joseph Taylor. Recorded 1908. Recording courtesy of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (this recording is not currently available on CD).

3. ‘Burton Broom Dance / The Lincolnshire Polka’ played by the band Pigeon English. Recorded 2005 and only appearing on their demo CD.

Recording courtesy of Pigeon English.