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runner-up would receive the larger sum from Parsons' bequest! However, as the difference is currently under 20p, there is little resentment between the rivals. This gentle and curious custom usually happens on the last Thursday of January at the...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: British Folk Customs: From Plough Monday to Hocktide
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disappeared until the revival in 1980. Like so many such characters in folklore, his origins are unknown. But this seems of little importance to the band and numerous dance teams who regularly join in the fun. This page is part of our Beginners’ Guide:...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: British Folk Customs: From Plough Monday to Hocktide
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Hornby in one night and on the same show (to pick a good one at random.) And you actually get to see them play/read for a little while: a mini-set. What have you got planned for the show at Cecil Sharp House? Well, the astonishing line up might tell you...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: News
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Hornby in one night and on the same show (to pick a good one at random.) And you actually get to see them play/read for a little while: a mini-set. What have you got planned for the show at Cecil Sharp House? Well, the astonishing line up might tell you...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: News
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my ability to achieve them. "The potential of what I might accomplish in this Fellowship is incredibly exciting and just a little bit daunting! I can't wait to throw myself into it and develop musically, creatively and professionally in 2015." Rosie...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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History of Plough Plays The history of the Plough or Wooing Play is a little different. As it has come down us, this play seems to be a combination of three different customs. By far the oldest part is the least 'dramatic', and focuses on the plough....
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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Hood plays Quite rare in the tradition were the Robin Hood plays, which not only included characters like Robin Hood and Little John but they also incorporated verses from Robin Hood ballads in their texts.
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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that the men would act more 'robustly' in the pub than in a posh person's house, and even moderated the play's text a little to suit the company. The Plough or Wooing Plays were somewhat different. The Hero-Combat section was done relatively...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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There is no evidence to support any notion of ritual origin, or that the play is older than the 18th century, and precious little that any of the mummers thought they should be anonymous. Indeed, throughout the recorded history of the custom, although...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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featured the 'death' of the quack's assistant and his miraculous cure with the medicine or pills on sale. If the play is little more than 250 years old, and scholars have been looking at it for a century of that time, it may seem strange that the exact...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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for performance, the venues, reactions of the audiences, and so on, were radically different to how it used to be, and had little in common with the previous generations. It was the style of performance which usually changed most, with the new groups...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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boasts of his prowess (often in topsy-turvy nonsensical language). The Doctor often has an Assistant who clowns about a little. The Doctor administers a pill or some medicine from a bottle and the 'dead' knight gets up. There often follows a series of...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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that the rhyme of his speech dictated it – ‘In comes I Doctor Brown / The best quack doctor in thus town..’, and so on. Little Johnny Jack (with his ‘wife and family on his back’) Beelezub (‘and on my should I carry my club..’) Little Devil Doubt (‘with...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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to be made, started a rival team. But in some areas - particularly Lancashire and the North West, the words were printed on little paper-covered booklets, called chapbooks, by which anyone with a penny or two to spend could acquire the words and...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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and the most like a conventional theatrical ‘play’, although the custom as performed around the villages still bore little resemblance to a stage play. The basic plot is: A young man courts a Lady but is rejected and he is persuaded to join the army by...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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of Egypt, such as when he calls him 'you Black Morocco dog'. In a different potential problem area, the themes may be a little too adult. In the Plough or Wooing plays, for example, one of the regular minor motifs is that a female character accuses the...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Drama
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Kathryn Tickell is an artist who needs very little introduction. Known for being one of the world’s finest players of the Northumbrian pipes, while also being an exceptional fiddle player, composer and recording artist, Kathryn has worked with a whole...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Kathryn Tickell is an artist who needs very little introduction. Known for being one of the world’s finest players of the Northumbrian pipes, while also being an exceptional fiddle player, composer and recording artist, Kathryn has worked with a whole...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Maz O'Connor's Trip to Canadahttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/2884-project-diaries
called Victoria Row: Day 7 On Sunday Ashley and I drove up to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where we played in a lovely little cafe on the outskirts of town called the Roxstone. It was an afternoon gig so we decided to do it 'workshop' style as they say...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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(cello!) involved.” The group’s debut album, Laylam, exhibits an eclectic mix of material, ranging from the traditional Little Birds, collected by Cecil Sharp on one of his collecting trips to the Appalachians, to Buddy Miller’s Wide River, with plenty...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: News
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