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Member Dance Clubshttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=9889:member-dance-clubs&catid=43
Staffs Visit website Lindfield & District FDC W Sussex Visit website Linsleighders Folk Dance Group Beds Visit website Little Longborough Folk Dance Club Merseyside Visit website Liverpool Contra Club Merseyside Visit website Llanellen Folk Dance Club...
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We help foster the growth of local and regional opportunities to play folk music, particularly where there is currently little provision, and we support music educators to enable this to happen. Find out more at efdss.org/youthfolk This resource (films,...
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Likewise ‘Cattern Cakes and Lace’ was a book that had lived on a shelf in our house, and lacemakers bobbins had sat in a little wooden fabric box in our dining room, without me knowing what they were. That autumn, I had spent a panicked few weeks trying...
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Listen: Classic Folkhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/folk-player/listen-classic-folk
Festival / John Marshall Potter 15. If You'd Been There / Bridget St. John 16. I Really Wanted You / Steve Tilston 17. Little Boy Blue / Ian Anderson’s Country Blues Band 18. Spencer The Rover / Katie Spencer 19. Dublin Serenade / Amelia Coburn 20....
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Although the event is frequently seen as the introduction to Sharp's subsequent collecting and promotion of folk songs, little has been written about the circumstances which caused Sharp to be in the vicarage garden. This present study examines some of...
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recognized as an important element in the structuring of social interaction and experience in many social spheres. However, little attention has been paid to music in the sphere of work. The importance of this gap in our knowledge, and the reasons for...
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tradition and provided the subject matter for his first ventures into print. Yet his early career was looked back on as little more than a false start by his friends. Through tracing his background, interests and influences this article instead presents...
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1932, respectively – the first time that a traditional singer was recorded for commercial purposes. However, comparatively little is known about Richardson, apart from a précis published in Musical Traditions in 2001. This article aims to apportion...
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popular of Shield’s composed melodies were so readily reabsorbed into the oral tradition that first inspired them. Alice Little ‘For the Sake of Difference’: John Malchair’s Categorizations of Tunes, 1760–95 The musician and artist John Malchair...
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Participation (Miller) Matt Price England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music (Williams) Alice Little Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition (McKenry) Martyn Wyndham-Read Obituary John Brian Graham Dave Townsend...
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Couple Dance and Eponymous Melody ‘Varsoviana’ The ‘Varsoviana’ (otherwise Varsouviana’, ‘Varsovienne’, ‘La Va’, ‘Put Your Little Foot’, ‘Shoe the Donkey’, ‘Waltz Vienna’, ‘Turkey Rhubarb’) has proved to be one of the most enduring of all...
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as a ‘takeover’ of the FSS and the sidelining of the major folk song collectors who helped found that society. Alice Little Percy Manning, Henry Balfour, Thomas Carter, and the Collecting of Traditional English Musical Instruments In 1890 the Pitt...
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satisfying work to do together. Cigarette Trees You said in the past that your song writing reflects “subject matter that little girls ought not to talk about.” What are some of the unspoken rules in your opinion about which topics female musicians...
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Dancing England moves onhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/7595-dancing-england-moves-on
dance world and the stimulus for the original 1970s set up. There were still many average to poor street performers with little connection to their own dancing traditions. In January this year, the first theatre show of Dancing England took place at...
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We help foster the growth of local and regional opportunities to play folk music, particularly where there is currently little provision, and we support music educators to enable this to happen. We work in partnership with Music Education Hubs, schools...
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Members’ Interviewhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=190:meet-the-ensemble&catid=41
to be one of my favourite memories! It won’t be long until we’ll be playing main stage at Cambridge Folk Festival! I’m a little nervous –although I’m confident that I will enjoy playing with the group, as I always do. Daniel I’m really excited to play...
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to find the time to focus on these details with so much time taken up with playing live. What’s clear though is that what little time Luedecke does have in between playing shows and doing press interviews, he makes the most of. He’s already planning on...
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National Youth Folk Ensemblehttps://www.efdss.org/learning/young-people/national-youth-folk-ensemble
that helps foster the growth of local and regional youth folk music provision, particularly where there is currently little provision The standard was excellent – their musicianship, stage presence, performance skills and enthusiasm made it an evening...
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– it’s a fascinating Radio Ballad style work for modern Britain. Also Rory McLeod’s Gusto! – he’s just brilliant. And The Little Unsaid’s new album Atomise, it’s beautiful. Phil: The Gloaming 3 What are your thoughts on the folk scene at the moment?...
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A: It’s been going brilliantly! How have the two shows differed in their presentation? D: It had to be downsized a little for Cecil Sharp House as it does not have the same ‘gallery space’ as Touchstones. The three video screens of my work have been...
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