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Paul Sartin Interviewhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/11418-paul-sartin-interview
You’re well known for your many collaborations over the years but I believe this is your first solo tour. Can you tell us a little bit about what to expect? It’s thanks to lockdown that I started performing solo, for online concerts, as obviously I...
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- Author: Matt Reed
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the ongoing struggle for more diverse representation in folk music... You have a new record coming out – can you tell us a little bit about the project? It’s called “Nothing As it Were Before.” It’s a collection of songs written over the course of the...
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- Author: Matt Reed
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of Jesus Say. Cautionary song The Ploughboy’s Dream, collected from Henry Garman of Forest Green, is transformed into O Little Town of Bethlehem; while the rousing Our Captain Calls, collected from Mrs Verrall in Sussex, becomes To Be A Pilgrim. The...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Summer Festivals 2022https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/11252-summer-festivals-2022
August Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, Shropshire. shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk And extending the date-range just a little: 3 September IndoorFestival of Folk Cecil Sharp House, London efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11312-indoor-festival-of-folk 8–11...
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days of our – or, at least, my – grandparents’ generation, when learning to dance was part of growing up. Everyone learnt a little bit, sometimes at classes but sometimes just at home. Dance Around The World will next take place at Cecil Sharp House on...
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Youth Folk Ensemble, reports. Passport to Music is a two-year project in South Derbyshire aimed at young musicians who have little access to music provision. The project is funded by Youth Music and led by participatory arts organisation, People...
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Folk Music Journal 2022https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/10491-folk-music-journal-2022
Davies explores mouth music for English step-dancing, a practice that that may be quite well known but which has attracted little scholarly attention. An unusual piece of social history takes the form of the bell harp, or ‘box of bells’, made by...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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reading for anyone with a passion for folk arts. Contribute to the world’s first crowdsourced English tunebook Dr Alice Little, the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Knowledge Exchange partner from Oxford University, has been studying the collection...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Conference Report 2020 https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/10157-conference-report-2020-2
our conference partners: Julia Bishop (University of Sheffield), Rebecca Dellow (researcher and fiddle player) and Alice Little (University of Oxford, and holder of a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship with EFDSS). However, can one simply move a conference...
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- Author: Matt Reed
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Bobbing Aroundhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=11260:morris-hey-bobbing&catid=70
Bobbing Around has been chosen for its relative simplicity which, for the purposes of teaching we have simplified a little more by giving a simpler alternative to a step called a foray caper. There is a chance to add this more complicated step back in...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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Molly Dancehttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=11262:morris-hey-molly-dance&catid=70
of the morris traditions. It was known in 19th century, particularly in East Anglia, but died out in the 1930s leaving little documentary evidence. It was revived by Cambridge Morris Men in 1977. Since then many different sides (or teams) have taken up...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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Willow Treehttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=11264:morris-hey-willow-tree&catid=70
Back to Back Chorus Rounds Chorus Foot up The same as in Balance the Straw but now in the Bucknell style. Cross Over Just a little different from previous versions. Two double steps to cross over and turn but, instead of going all the way across, you...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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How to use this resourcehttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=11265:morris-hey-how-to-use&catid=70
experience for everyone. Programme Structure You could choose to divide theMorris Hey! package into three sections, each a little harder than the one before: Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Week 1 Bobbing Around – Part 1 Revision & Simple Molly Dance...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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Balance the Strawhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=10502:morris-hey-balance&catid=70
the same as in Bobbing Around, but in a different style. Foot Up & Down (video 4) Face up. 2 Double Steps moving forward a little and 2 Single Steps back, turning in to face your partner for a jump and clash in the other direction but finish facing...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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Dilwynhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=11261:morris-hey-dilwyn&catid=70
– as with Bobbing Around; the difference for this dance is the rhythm which this time is a reel. Think of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star instead of Humpty Dumpty and the hops come on the “-le” of Twinkle and Little. Some teams also lift the knees quite...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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Morris Hey!https://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=10501:morris-hey-intro&catid=70
where they were mostly collected, was very rural and the dances had been passed down through the generations, probably with little variation. Border Morris dancing comes from the region where England and Wales join. Some dances were collected around the...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
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just within the age bracket – and I was so happy to be invited to join. I remember being really excited and more than a little bit nervous as fellow Leeds musician Martin Parker and I went down on the train to our first residential. We met several of...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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information. Organisation People Dancing has produced some links for community dancers. However, as they note, there is little government guidance yet that is specific to participatory arts activity. See also: Using Zoom for education activities, a...
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the collections in the flesh. It will also be wonderful to meet my colleagues for real; I have only ever seen them in little boxes on my laptop screen. Are you a musician and/or dancer yourself? Yes to both, although ‘dancer’ should probably come with...
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resources will continue to be available and our Library staff will answer enquiries by email as usual, but make take a little longer than usual. We hope to start opening the building for some public events from January. In the meantime, we continue...
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