If you are a subscriber to Stepping It Out (and if not, why not!) please remember that subscriptions do not automatically renew. If you want to continue to receive this excellent magazine, go to https://veteran.co.uk/magazine/. Alternatively you can pay by bank transfer (a/c Megan Wisdom 20-92-08 53701220) or PayPal (paypal.me/MWisdom631) then email your name and address … Read more
New to Irish Traditional Music Archive’s Shop is The Song Collector: The Writings of Tom Munnelly, a new book gathering key writings on the English-language song tradition by ITMA’s first Board Chair, Tom Munnelly. Edited by Terry Moylan, Jerry O’Reilly, and ITMA Director Emeritus Nicholas Carolan, copies are available exclusively from ITMA’s shop, with all proceeds … Read more
The Ballad Partners are delighted to announce the publication of Arthur Knevett’s new book, The Folk-Song Society, 1898-1932: A History. This is the first book to explore the interweaving, and sometimes competing, strands that established the Folk Song Society, sustained it through the troubled decades from the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, through the First World War, and into … Read more
By Peter Snape Anne Geddes Gilchrist, OBE, FSA (1863–1954) was one of the major folk song collectors of the ‘first revival’. A remarkable woman, self-effacing, independent, and widely respected among her peers, she was the only collector who focused on her home region of Lancashire and the North-West, before turning her attention to the study … Read more
The first issue of the new magazine from Veteran has arrived, and it is very good. Edited and designed by Megan Wisdom, its visual appeal is as good as the content. Song enthusiasts should find the articles on Francis Collinson and Shirley Collins’ early traditional influences interesting. Music and dance are well covered too. As … Read more
News from Megan Wisdom: Veteran: the traditional music label has announced a new publication for those with an interest in traditional music, song, dance and traditions. Stepping It Out magazine will be published quarterly starting in December 2025. Each issue will be available as a physical or digital publication and will contain articles on different … Read more
Dr Abbi Flint has recently published and article on the connections between rambling, paths, and folk-song in the journal Folklore, including material touched on in her presentation at the Spring Conference in Sheffield. It is open access and free to download.Flint, A. (2025). Songs for Ramblers and Songs by the Way: Paths and Trails as Vernacular Contexts for … Read more
The latest book in the “Marrowbones” series, “A Yorkshire Songster”, is being launched at Whitby Folk Week. The event will be in the Coliseum Theatre (1B Victoria Place, Whitby YO21 1EZ) on Wednesday, 30th August at 10.00 am.There will also be a concert to celebrate the whole series of “Marrowbones” books on Thursday afternoon in … Read more
This looks like a very interesting looking book on ballad history. The book includes an examination of the complex musical and cultural context from which Anna Gordon sprang. Threaded throughout are discussions of the ballads that brought her fame, revealing the deep importance of traditional music in Scottish society and the centrality of women as … Read more
A Yorkshire SongsterFolk songs collected in Yorkshire since the Second World War The Marrow Bones series of English folk songs — Volume 7 Yorkshire has been noted as a ‘singing’ county and this has been reflected in the excellent musical collections published by Frank Kidson. The post war song collections, however, have not been so … Read more