There are several interesting presentations (as well as lots of great music) at this year’s event in Stowmarket on 27th of September. ‘My Fifty Years with Harry Cox’.Christopher Heppa talks about his discovery of traditional music, his visits to Harry’s family and neighbours, written articles and the joys and disappointments of oral research. “They were … Read more
Songs from a West Country travelling family sung by Sophie Legg, Betsy and Charlotte Renals, recorded in 1978 by Pete Coe. With previously unreleased interviews. (VTR119)This new edition of Catch Me if You Can (the first for 23 years) includes rediscovered interview excerpts, bringing the singers’ stories to life in their own words. Updated booklet notes … Read more
Irish-Traditional-Song-Research@groups.ioA moderated discussion group for those interested in research into traditional song in Ireland – the songs, the singers, the styles, the contexts – in English and Irish; functioning primarily as a forum for communication, support, and information exchange, focusing on research rather than performance, and old-style tradition rather than revival or artistic extension.To subscribe, go tohttps://groups.io/g/Irish-Traditional-Song-Research
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
Ballad Partners are delighted to announce our newest book, Collectomania! Revisiting the Folk Song Collectors. This collection includes ten papers from the major Collectomania conference organised by the Traditional Song Forum and the English Folk Dance and Song Society, held in London in 2024. It includes the keynote papers from Brian Peters on Cecil Sharp and … Read more
David Murphy posted in Tradsong: I’d like announce that, through the supreme efforts of Dr Virginia Blankenhorn, editor, and Edinburgh Diamond, all issues of Scottish Studies are up on its website; the range covers volume 1, (1957) through 42 (2025).Scottish Studies is a journal which accepts scholarly contributions and work done through the University of … Read more
The EFDSS has announced a new series of library courses. The first course will be given by Steve Roud, presenting ‘Folk Song in England’: a six-week online evening course on the social history of traditional song and singing in England up to about 1950 (when the post-war Folk Revival changed things dramatically) The sessions will … Read more
Probably the biggest news of the year (Decade? Century?) is the launch of the Full English project. There are three main elements to the project. There is an extensive educational programme for both adults and children, of which one of the components is the series of ‘Folk Song in England’ workshops being led by Steve … Read more
We greatly enjoyed the TSF meeting hosted by ITMA in Dublin a couple of years ago and would like to congratulate them on having reached their 25th anniversary. If you have not visited their website (www.itma.ie) recently you will be delighted to discover how it has grown, with a large quantity of important recordings, videos … Read more