A group associated with the Gloucestershire folk music enthusiasts, GlosFolk have launched a new site of folksongs and related activity collected in Gloucestershire. It is at www.gloschristmas.com. This modest site is a Christmas pilot and a launch-pad for a bigger effort next year when they hope to put as many songs from Gloucestershire as possible onto the web. This pilot site contains information on about 20 Christmas songs collected in Gloucestershire with notes on the songs, the singers and the context, plus a large bit on mummers and wassailing. There are also sound files, some of which are archive recordings and some more contemporary versions. Musical transcription of the songs is provided plus MIDI files to help those who can’t read music. You are invited to have a look at the site and send comments to them.
