ENB22 DEAR COMPANION 53 songs and ballads from Cecil Sharp's remarkable American collection . Introductory essay by MikeYates, biographical sketches of the singers and notes on the songs plus many unpublished photographs and manuscripts.

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ENB23 THE ANGLO CONCERTINA MUSIC OF WILLIAM KIMBER

Dan M Worrall, Forward by Roger Digby A selection of 28 tunes Background notes on Headington player and the Anglo-Concertina as an instrument.

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ENB24 TRAVELLER'S JOY

Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005
Compiled by Mike Yates; musical transcriptions by Elaine Bradtke; editorial assistance by David Atkinson and Malcolm Taylor; audio recordings by Mike Yates. Traveller's Joy is a celebration of the extraordinary and ultimately unique musical legacy of the Gypsies and Travellers of England and Scotland.

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ENB25 MARROW BONES

English folk songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts

The long-awaited new edition of Marrow Bones! Marrow Bones was originally published in 1965 and edited by Frank Purslow, Marrow Bones played a crucial role in the burgeoning folk song revival of the 1960s, providing young singers with a whole new repertoire. Out of print for many years, Marrow Bones has been completely revised by Malcolm Douglas and Steve Gardham, with new and extensive notes on the songs.

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ENB26 HARDCORE ENGLISH

Tunes from manuscript, recorded and aural sources

This inspired collection of 300 tunes gives an overview of our current understanding of English traditional dance music. This book includes booklists of re-published musicians manuscripts, important compilations of English traditional music. Fascinating studies of English traditional musicians, how folk music varies regionally and an up-to-date guide to the enormous resources, including thousands of tunes now available on the internet.

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ENB28 THE BOSUN’S LOCKER
Stan Hugill, the last of the shantymen had articles published in the folk magazine 'Spin' between 1962 & 1973. They contain reminiscences of his life at sea plus over seventy sea songs & shanties with many illustrated with Stan’s own line drawings.

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ENB29 BEFORE THE NIGHT WAS OUT ...

This book of tunes from East Anglia and is a resource for practising musicians, but this is more than just a tune book. It’s aim is to shed light on the way in which traditional music in Suffolk and Norfolk has thrived and mutated during the 20th century. Polkas, waltzes, hornpipes, schottisches and jigs, with comparative versions, transcribed from recordings of more than 20 different melodeon, fiddle & dulcimer players, as well as biographies, photographs and contextual information about traditional music in East Anglian.

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ENB30 THE ELLIOTTS OF BIRTLEY

The Elliotts of Birtley is the story of a coal-mining family in the Durham coalfield spanning five generations and their lives and times from the First World War, the General Strike and the Depression right up to modern events such as the Miner's Strike of 1984. This is a unique book, as essential for the lover of folk- music as for the student of local and industrial history or folk culture in the North-East. It's also uniquely compelling and truly hard to put down. This is living history, told in the most persuasive manner imaginable, both from the heart and from the heart of the community.

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ENB31 THE COLFORD JIG

Traditional Tunes from Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire has always contained a wealth of traditions: customs, folklore, ritual and of course music. This collection attempts to bring together almost all of the known traditional tunes collected in Gloucestershire. The variety is impressive and encompasses Morris dance tunes, social dance tunes as well as tunes for stepdancing. The sources are just as varied reflecting the wide diversity of traditional musical activity in the county. Compiled by Charles Mentieth and Paul Burgess.

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ENB33 NEVER ON SUNDAY

Seventy marches, dances, song tunes and party pieces as played by a 19th Century Village Church Band. Published under the auspices of the West Gallery Music Association by the Purbeck Village Quire. Compiled by Rollo Woods.

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ENB34 WORKING SONGS. As its title implies, author Roy Palmer investigates working songs from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the 1980s Miners’ strike. For over two hundred years, strikers, Luddites, Chartists, and Unionists fought to champion better pay and conditions and their songs were often their only legacy.

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IRB2 THE SPOONS MURDER and other Mysteries.  Written by Con Ó Drisceoil. 12 songs with notes on each.

For the past couple of decades these songs have been passed around and savoured by those who delight in the pleasures of improbable stories and witty verse. Several have been recorded, by Jimmy Crowley, Rosie Stewart and others, and some of them have become modern ‘folk songs’, having entered the living tradition and being transmitted from singer to singer. The accompanying CD has the songs sung by Con himself.
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IRB4 ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE CD track listing
Songs, Stories and Memories

We are pleased that the The Irish Traditional Music Archive have produced this outstanding hard back book of the life and the songs of the great Co. Derry
singer Eddie Butcher which comes with a separately package three CDs of recordings done the late Hugh Sheilds. Including 67 previously unpublished songs!

(Hardback book with CD x 3 - £40.99 + additional postage due the weight of the book and CDs)

This packaging is now only available on special order due to the cost of the postage - email info@veteran.co.uk