We have considerable stocks left of some publications and recordings previously released by the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
It seems a shame for hundreds of these items to be shut away in Cecil Sharp House. We have decided to release them at a special discount price, to get them into the hands of people who will enjoy and make use of them.
All of these releases are now priced at only £2 each. Postage and packaging is an additional £3 per item – or if you can get to Cecil Sharp House in London, you will be welcome to pick them up without any additional charge.
Sale Books
Dear Companion
Appalachian Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection.
A collection of fifty-three songs and ballads from Sharp's American collection, together with biographical sketches of the singers and notes on the songs. Compiled and edited by Mike Yates, Elaine Bradtke and Malcolm Taylor; Preface by Shirley Collins.
Traveller’s Joy
Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies. Compiled by Mike Yates; Foreward by Norma Waterson.
Traveller’s Joy is first and foremost a songbook, a collection of over fifty songs to be learned, sung, and enjoyed by the reader. The intention is to portray the singers and their music with honesty and sensitivity.
Classic English Folk Songs
Selected and edited by R Vaughan Williams and AL Lloyd; revised by Malcolm Douglas.
First published in 1959 as The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, this ground-breaking collection reclaimed traditional song from the school and the recital room, and from the ‘evening dress’ into which it had so often been put during the first half of the twentieth century.
Marrow Bones
Selected and Edited by Frank Purslow.
First published in 1965, Marrow Bones drew on the existence of largely unpublished folk song collections made by Henry and Robert Hammond and Dr George Gardiner between 1904 and 1909, chiefly in Dorset and Hampshire.
Singing & Dancing Wherever She Goes
A Life of Maud Karpeles, written by the late Simona Pakenham.
Maud Karpeles’ biography was published in 2011. A personal friend of Maud’s, Pakenham combined information from a number of sources: Maud’s unpublished autobiography, notebooks, letters and diaries, supplemented by the reminiscences of many friends.
Sale CDs
Listen to the Band
A two-CD set of dance music from the sound archives of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
Under No Illusion
Dance music played by Folkus Pocus – Caroline Hollingshurst (violin, flute and recorder) and Dan Hollingshurst (piano).
Understanding Victorian Society Through Dance
Music to accompany the teaching resource, featuring ballroom dances, country dances, performance dances and clog dances.
Dance to your Daddy
Dual speed folk music for special needs activities.
Music by The Gloworms and Dan and Caroline Hollingshurst.
A specialist resource produced primarily for special needs educators. The music is recorded twice at different speeds – so that dancers and singers who need a bit of thinking time can practise at their leisure, and then move up a pace at a later time.
