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Hood plays Quite rare in the tradition were the Robin Hood plays, which not only included characters like Robin Hood and Little John but they also incorporated verses from Robin Hood ballads in their texts.
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that the men would act more 'robustly' in the pub than in a posh person's house, and even moderated the play's text a little to suit the company. The Plough or Wooing Plays were somewhat different. The Hero-Combat section was done relatively...
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- Category: English Folk Drama
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There is no evidence to support any notion of ritual origin, or that the play is older than the 18th century, and precious little that any of the mummers thought they should be anonymous. Indeed, throughout the recorded history of the custom, although...
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featured the 'death' of the quack's assistant and his miraculous cure with the medicine or pills on sale. If the play is little more than 250 years old, and scholars have been looking at it for a century of that time, it may seem strange that the exact...
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for performance, the venues, reactions of the audiences, and so on, were radically different to how it used to be, and had little in common with the previous generations. It was the style of performance which usually changed most, with the new groups...
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- Category: English Folk Drama
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boasts of his prowess (often in topsy-turvy nonsensical language). The Doctor often has an Assistant who clowns about a little. The Doctor administers a pill or some medicine from a bottle and the 'dead' knight gets up. There often follows a series of...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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that the rhyme of his speech dictated it – ‘In comes I Doctor Brown / The best quack doctor in thus town..’, and so on. Little Johnny Jack (with his ‘wife and family on his back’) Beelezub (‘and on my should I carry my club..’) Little Devil Doubt (‘with...
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- Category: English Folk Drama
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to be made, started a rival team. But in some areas - particularly Lancashire and the North West, the words were printed on little paper-covered booklets, called chapbooks, by which anyone with a penny or two to spend could acquire the words and...
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- Author: EFDSS
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and the most like a conventional theatrical ‘play’, although the custom as performed around the villages still bore little resemblance to a stage play. The basic plot is: A young man courts a Lady but is rejected and he is persuaded to join the army by...
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of Egypt, such as when he calls him 'you Black Morocco dog'. In a different potential problem area, the themes may be a little too adult. In the Plough or Wooing plays, for example, one of the regular minor motifs is that a female character accuses the...
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Kathryn Tickell is an artist who needs very little introduction. Known for being one of the world’s finest players of the Northumbrian pipes, while also being an exceptional fiddle player, composer and recording artist, Kathryn has worked with a whole...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Kathryn Tickell is an artist who needs very little introduction. Known for being one of the world’s finest players of the Northumbrian pipes, while also being an exceptional fiddle player, composer and recording artist, Kathryn has worked with a whole...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Maz O'Connor's Trip to Canadahttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/2884-project-diaries
called Victoria Row: Day 7 On Sunday Ashley and I drove up to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where we played in a lovely little cafe on the outskirts of town called the Roxstone. It was an afternoon gig so we decided to do it 'workshop' style as they say...
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(cello!) involved.” The group’s debut album, Laylam, exhibits an eclectic mix of material, ranging from the traditional Little Birds, collected by Cecil Sharp on one of his collecting trips to the Appalachians, to Buddy Miller’s Wide River, with plenty...
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(cello!) involved.” The group’s debut album, Laylam, exhibits an eclectic mix of material, ranging from the traditional Little Birds, collected by Cecil Sharp on one of his collecting trips to the Appalachians, to Buddy Miller’s Wide River, with plenty...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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doors, ‘Twas because they would not sing. Oh! The first he was a miller, The second he was a weaver, And the third he was a little tailor. These three rogues went together. Now the miller he stole corn, And the weaver he stole yarn, And the little...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: Fun with Folk
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I ploughed it with my ram’s horn, I sowed it with my pepper box, I harrowed it with my bramble bush, I reaped it with my little penknife, I sent it home in a walnut shell, I threshed it with my needle and thread, I winnowed it with my handkerchief, I...
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As a proud partner of Cambridge Folk Festival’s 50th anniversary, the opportunity to attend on behalf of EFDSS and give a little back to festival-goers was part of our role for the weekend. With five members of staff and volunteers on site (easy to spot...
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either of words or music from these miners, and relied in the end on a gentleman of Plymouth who “was obliged to supply a little here or there, but only when a bad rhyme, or rather none at all, made it evident what the real rhyme was. I have read it...
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dance Three Around Three The morris dance Brighton Camp The north-west morris dance Winster Gallop Some examples of Polkas: Little Polly Polka Astley’s Ride Albert Farmer’s Bonfire tune Below, you can find an audio recording of the New Jenny Lind Polka,...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Instrumental Folk Music
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