EDS Vol 43 No 2

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Cover: Manley Morris Dancers

Contents

[edit] SPECIAL FEATURES

[edit] I AIN'T A LOVER OF THAT FOLK MUSIC! - PERCY BROWN - NORFOLK MUSICIAN

Dave Arthur's impressions and memories of Percy Brown, who died in December 1980.

[edit] MEDLEY MANIA

John Kirkpatrick says that if a tune is worth playing once it's worth playing a hundred times.
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[edit] EIGHT SONGS COLLECTED BY MAURICE OGG

Prepared by Roy Palmer as a tribute to Mo'Ogg who died in December 1980, aged 34.

The Travelling Tinker

Mary Had A Ploughboy

Once I had A Sweetheart

All For The Grub

The Blin' Mare

Get a Little Table

The Soldier's Return

The Rag Shop

[edit] BEGINNING THE MELODEON

A brief note to beginners from Bevis A Colmer

[edit] WHAT"S HAPPENING

A look at recent developments in the folk world.

[edit] FOLK PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Shuel's classic photographs of Abbott's Bromley Horn Dancers.

[edit] DANCING ENGLAND 1981

Derek Schofield looks at The Traditional Dance Event, organised annually by the Black Cap Swordsmen, and asks, "Why hasn't it been done before?".

[edit] COPY OF GP MORICE DANCERS MR MANNING

Bob Grant, Mike Heaney and Roy Judge research the background of the earliest known photograph of the Headington Quarry Morris men

[edit] ELSIE J. OXENHAM: A CHRONICLER OF THE FOLK MOVEMENT

Joan Peck shows how the popular author for girls used the folk movement as the theme for so many of her books.

[edit] FIFTY YEARS OF DANCING

A tribute to Mary Ireson of the North-East Hampshire District

[edit] JINGLES

A request for reader's jingles.

[edit] 100 YEARS AGO

Mayday in London - 1876

[edit] TWO DANCES FROM JULIAN PILLING

Reprinted from ED&S 1965 and 1966

The Five-hand Reel

Kendal Guild

[edit] THREE NEW TUNES

The Sid Kids Polka (Nigel Chippendale)

Passport Polka (Nigel Chippendale)

Heron Point Waltz (John Stapleton)


[edit] REGULAR FEATURES

[edit] MORRIS WORKSOP. THE MARSTON PROCESSIONAL MORRIS DANCE

Collected from the villagers of Marston by Tim and Jan Beasant, Anne Cohen and The Poynton Jemmers.

[edit] CORRESPONDENCE/REVIEWS

[edit] OBITUARIES

Gladys Ledger

Charles Parker

Bill Price

Fidler Sturch


Issue Editor: Dave Arthur

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