2021
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The 2021 Roy Palmer Lecture will be given by Jeremy Harte on 2 November as a live event at the...
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The Folk Song Subject Index on the VWML website has just announced that the team on indexers have now added...
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Julia Bishop has written to share information about a project that she is involved in – ‘A National Observatory of...
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A new book, The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud, is to be published shortly....
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Tom Pettitt has written with news of a great piece of work on murdered sweetheart ballads:‘I was wondering if the...
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Steve Roud recently discovered a rather wonderful collection called ‘An Album of Street Literature’ which is a selection of early...
2020
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One of the reasons that I have been reaching up regularly for volumes of the Folk Music Journal and its predecessors from...
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It is some while since we had any new articles submitted for the TSF Website so we are pleased that...
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Some of you may have had the pleasure of meeting the American folklorist, collector and record producer, Kenneth Goldstein, as...
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A new project that I have been working on has led to me looking at the history of some lesser...
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Amongst all the recent excitement I haven’t nominated a ‘Website of the Month’ for some weeks – so I’ll mention...
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Nick Dow has written to tell me that a new selection of 100 songs from the Hammond and Gardiner manuscripts...
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Another TSF member, David Sutcliffe, has also been busy and has just launched his website, www.cecilsharpspeople.org.uk. You can also download David’s...
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A new book on Robert Anderson, the Balladeer of Carlisle will be launched next weekend. This is from the keyboard of Sue...
2019
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Carrie Grover was born in Nova Scotia in 1879, surrounded by traditional song. When she was 14 the family moved...
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We have had another highly successful year. In terms of physical meetings, we have travelled hither and yon – the...
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If you are interested in what the Critics Group got up to then you should listen to this programme, introduced...
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Many of you will have seen the film made by Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz about the life and work of George...
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ona and Peter Opie were seminal figures in the British folklore scene for many years, but are mostly remembered for...
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The Belfast meeting was a great success, with over 70 members and visitors attending. While the majority were from Ireland...