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Balance the Strawhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=10502:morris-hey-balance&catid=70
the same as in Bobbing Around, but in a different style. Foot Up & Down (video 4) Face up. 2 Double Steps moving forward a little and 2 Single Steps back, turning in to face your partner for a jump and clash in the other direction but finish facing...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
- Category: Morris Hey!
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Dilwynhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=11261:morris-hey-dilwyn&catid=70
– as with Bobbing Around; the difference for this dance is the rhythm which this time is a reel. Think of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star instead of Humpty Dumpty and the hops come on the “-le” of Twinkle and Little. Some teams also lift the knees quite...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
- Category: Morris Hey!
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Morris Hey!https://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=10501:morris-hey-intro&catid=70
where they were mostly collected, was very rural and the dances had been passed down through the generations, probably with little variation. Border Morris dancing comes from the region where England and Wales join. Some dances were collected around the...
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- Author: Jennie Higgins
- Category: Morris Hey!
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just within the age bracket – and I was so happy to be invited to join. I remember being really excited and more than a little bit nervous as fellow Leeds musician Martin Parker and I went down on the train to our first residential. We met several of...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: News
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information. Organisation People Dancing has produced some links for community dancers. However, as they note, there is little government guidance yet that is specific to participatory arts activity. See also: Using Zoom for education activities, a...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: News
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the collections in the flesh. It will also be wonderful to meet my colleagues for real; I have only ever seen them in little boxes on my laptop screen. Are you a musician and/or dancer yourself? Yes to both, although ‘dancer’ should probably come with...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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resources will continue to be available and our Library staff will answer enquiries by email as usual, but make take a little longer than usual. We hope to start opening the building for some public events from January. In the meantime, we continue...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Member Dance Clubshttps://www.efdss.org/support-us/join-us/member-dance-clubs
Staffs Visit website Lindfield & District FDC W Sussex Visit website Linsleighders Folk Dance Group Beds Visit website Little Longborough Folk Dance Club Merseyside Visit website Liverpool Contra Club Merseyside Visit website Llanellen Folk Dance Club...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Support
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We help foster the growth of local and regional opportunities to play folk music, particularly where there is currently little provision, and we support music educators to enable this to happen. Find out more at efdss.org/youthfolk This resource (films,...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Learning Resources
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Likewise ‘Cattern Cakes and Lace’ was a book that had lived on a shelf in our house, and lacemakers bobbins had sat in a little wooden fabric box in our dining room, without me knowing what they were. That autumn, I had spent a panicked few weeks trying...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: News
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Although the event is frequently seen as the introduction to Sharp's subsequent collecting and promotion of folk songs, little has been written about the circumstances which caused Sharp to be in the vicarage garden. This present study examines some of...
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- Author: intern
- Category: General
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recognized as an important element in the structuring of social interaction and experience in many social spheres. However, little attention has been paid to music in the sphere of work. The importance of this gap in our knowledge, and the reasons for...
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- Author: intern
- Category: General
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tradition and provided the subject matter for his first ventures into print. Yet his early career was looked back on as little more than a false start by his friends. Through tracing his background, interests and influences this article instead presents...
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- Author: intern
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1932, respectively – the first time that a traditional singer was recorded for commercial purposes. However, comparatively little is known about Richardson, apart from a précis published in Musical Traditions in 2001. This article aims to apportion...
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- Author: intern
- Category: General
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popular of Shield’s composed melodies were so readily reabsorbed into the oral tradition that first inspired them. Alice Little ‘For the Sake of Difference’: John Malchair’s Categorizations of Tunes, 1760–95 The musician and artist John Malchair...
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- Author: intern
- Category: About us
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Participation (Miller) Matt Price England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music (Williams) Alice Little Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition (McKenry) Martyn Wyndham-Read Obituary John Brian Graham Dave Townsend...
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- Author: intern
- Category: About us
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as a ‘takeover’ of the FSS and the sidelining of the major folk song collectors who helped found that society. Alice Little Percy Manning, Henry Balfour, Thomas Carter, and the Collecting of Traditional English Musical Instruments In 1890 the Pitt...
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- Author: intern
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satisfying work to do together. Cigarette Trees You said in the past that your song writing reflects “subject matter that little girls ought not to talk about.” What are some of the unspoken rules in your opinion about which topics female musicians...
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- Author: intern
- Category: News
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Dancing England moves onhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/7595-dancing-england-moves-on
dance world and the stimulus for the original 1970s set up. There were still many average to poor street performers with little connection to their own dancing traditions. In January this year, the first theatre show of Dancing England took place at...
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- Author: intern
- Category: News
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We help foster the growth of local and regional opportunities to play folk music, particularly where there is currently little provision, and we support music educators to enable this to happen. We work in partnership with Music Education Hubs, schools...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: Learn with us
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