Folk Song in England and renowned folklorist Steve Roud will explore the history and development of folk through the ages.
The courses begin in September and will be held in Lincoln, Leeds, London, Bury, Gateshead, Bristol, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Sheffield.
In each region there will be a local guest speaker with specific knowledge plus rarely played archival recordings of singers from across England.
Courses are aimed at beginners interested in finding out about the history of folk song and the part it played in everyday life in England up to the fifties.
Roud said: ‘Folk music continues to fascinate people on a variety of levels, from the singer or enthusiast to the social history researcher, and it is a particularly exciting time for folk song studies as huge amounts of material is becoming newly available in sound and manuscript archives that were previously only accessible to a few.
‘With so much more evidence available we can at last get an overall view of the subject and ask questions which eluded our predecessors, and in particular we can start to understand how “folk song” fitted into the wider musical world of everyday life in the past.’
The initiative is part of The Full English, an English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) project supported by the National Lottery, National Folk Music Fund and The Folklore Society.
Folk Song in England dates are:
7 September 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Ruairidh Greig
Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln
www.lincolndrillhall.com
14 September 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud and Steve Gardham
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
www.efdss.org
21 September 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Julia Bishop
British Library, London
www.bl.uk
12 October 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Sue Allan
The Met, Bury
www.themet.biz
19 October 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Peter Wood
The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead Quays
www.thesagegateshead.org
27 October 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Martin Graebe
Colston Hall, Bristol
www.colstonhall.org
2 November 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Roy Palmer
mac birmingham, Birmingham
www.macarts.co.uk
16 November 9.30am – 4pm
Steve Roud with John Howson
The Stables, Milton Keynes
www.stables.org
30 November 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with John Howson
The Gillespie Centre, Cambridge
www.efdss.org
1 February 2014, 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Julia Bishop
Sheffield University
www.wegottickets.com
For more about The Full English and access to the archive go to www.efdss.org/thefullenglish
The courses begin in September and will be held in Lincoln, Leeds, London, Bury, Gateshead, Bristol, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Sheffield.
In each region there will be a local guest speaker with specific knowledge plus rarely played archival recordings of singers from across England.
Courses are aimed at beginners interested in finding out about the history of folk song and the part it played in everyday life in England up to the fifties.
Roud said: ‘Folk music continues to fascinate people on a variety of levels, from the singer or enthusiast to the social history researcher, and it is a particularly exciting time for folk song studies as huge amounts of material is becoming newly available in sound and manuscript archives that were previously only accessible to a few.
‘With so much more evidence available we can at last get an overall view of the subject and ask questions which eluded our predecessors, and in particular we can start to understand how “folk song” fitted into the wider musical world of everyday life in the past.’
The initiative is part of The Full English, an English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) project supported by the National Lottery, National Folk Music Fund and The Folklore Society.
Folk Song in England dates are:
7 September 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Ruairidh Greig
Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln
www.lincolndrillhall.com
14 September 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud and Steve Gardham
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
www.efdss.org
21 September 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Julia Bishop
British Library, London
www.bl.uk
12 October 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Sue Allan
The Met, Bury
www.themet.biz
19 October 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Peter Wood
The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead Quays
www.thesagegateshead.org
27 October 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Martin Graebe
Colston Hall, Bristol
www.colstonhall.org
2 November 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Roy Palmer
mac birmingham, Birmingham
www.macarts.co.uk
16 November 9.30am – 4pm
Steve Roud with John Howson
The Stables, Milton Keynes
www.stables.org
30 November 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with John Howson
The Gillespie Centre, Cambridge
www.efdss.org
1 February 2014, 9.30am – 5pm
Steve Roud with Julia Bishop
Sheffield University
www.wegottickets.com
For more about The Full English and access to the archive go to www.efdss.org/thefullenglish
