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
One of the reasons that I have been reaching up regularly for volumes of the Folk Music Journal and its predecessors from my shelves is that I have been giving a little help to John Francis of Albion Records, who is currently working on a new set of four CDs which will contain between them performances of … Read more
If you are interested in what the Critics Group got up to then you should listen to this programme, introduced by Martin Carthy, which uses Charles Parker’s recordings of their meetings to reveal something of what went on. You can find it on the BBC ‘Sounds’ website for at least the next year.Go HERE.
Many of you will have seen the film made by Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz about the life and work of George Butterworth. If you haven’t, or if you want to see it again you will be pleased to hear that it has been released as a DVD and Blu-Ray disk. The film will come with additional … Read more
At the TSF meeting in Kings Lynn we heard about the visit of Ralph Vaughan Williams to the town in 1905. Alan Helsdon, who organised the meeting, has now released a digital book Vaughan Williams in Norfolk through Musical Traditions. This can still be downloaded from the Musical Traditions website: website.https://www.mustrad.org.uk/download/covers.htm [RS]