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Thursday 13 June 2024, 7:30pmJez Lowe, Bob Fox and Julie Matthews present The New Radio Ballads - In the Footsteps of Ewan MacColl. In the 50s and 60s Ewan MacColl, along with Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger, created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts for the BBC Home...
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Cecil Sharp House at 90https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/10023-cecil-sharp-house-at-90
recently: 'Cecil Sharp House has been in my life for 64 years. I arrived for the first time in Britain in 1956, met Ewan MacColl and within a week he was taking me to his favourite haunt in Camden Town. We turned up day after day, week after week,...
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Listen: Classic Folkhttps://www.efdss.org/about-us/folk-player/listen-classic-folk
Family, Joan Baez, Fairport Convention etc), as well as the tail end of the folk-song revival shaped by The Watersons, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Shirley Collins, Woody Guthrie and many more. Interesting fact: The hospital where Mike was born, in...
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Music Scholarship in England: A Critique Bratton, J.S. : Dancing a Hornpipe in Fetters Mackenzie, Pat/ Jim Carroll : Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) [Obituary] Wallace, George : Freddy Forster (1919-1989) [Obituary] Long-Wilgus, Eleanor R. : D.K. Wilgus...
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in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980 (Mitchell) Derek Schofield Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl (Harker) Obituary Terry Moylan Tom Munnelly ChrisMetherell Pat Tracey Katalin Paksa Lajos Vargyas Malcolm Taylor Ursula...
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Gardham The Mansfield Manuscript: An Old Edinburgh Collection of Songs and Ballads (Clark, ed.) Steve Roud Legacies of Ewan MacColl: The Last Interview (Moore and Vacca, eds) Andrew Killick Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology (Russell...
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Collins, The Watersons, Nic Jones, June Tabor, Martin Simpson, Eliza and Martin Carthy, John Tams, Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. Part of the ‘Topic at 80’ celebrations at Cecil Sharp House. 2019: Lore and the Living Archive An exhibition of original...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
- Category: Cecil Sharp House
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collector Cecil Sharp (1923), composer and collector Ralph Vaughan Williams (1943), performer/writer AL Lloyd (1975), Ewan MacColl (1987), Peggy Seeger (1987), EFDSS President Shirley Collins (2003) and Vice President Eliza Carthy (2007). “All of this...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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their music. On that theme, what do you think of the policy adopted by some folk clubs in the 60s (often associated with Ewan MacColl), that a singer should only perform songs from their own region? I wouldn’t go along with that at all! I love walking...
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their music. On that theme, what do you think of the policy adopted by some folk clubs in the 60s (often associated with Ewan MacColl), that a singer should only perform songs from their own region? I wouldn’t go along with that at all! I love walking...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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third year, the annual bursary celebrates the life of Middlesbrough’s Graeme Miles, who died in 2013. A contemporary of Ewan MacColl, Miles wrote his first song about Hartlepool, Sea Coal, at the age of 14. After hearing the traditional songs of...
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in music. Adrian McNally and Rachel Unthank from The Unthanks will be on the bursary's judging panel. A contemporary of Ewan MacColl, Graeme Miles (1935–2013) wrote his first song at the age of fourteen. After hearing the traditional songs of Tyneside,...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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in Anderson shelters. She left home for London to immerse herself in the burgeoning folk scene; at a party held by Ewan MacColl she met Alan Lomax, and in 1959 she joined him in the USA on the renowned field trip ‘Southern Journey’, recording American...
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started writing songs at the age of 23. Her explanation of what inspired her to write came in the form of two words – “Ewan MacColl”. Peggy and Ewan met in 1956, a meeting which would result in a long personal and musical partnership. One of her first...
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started writing songs at the age of 23. Her explanation of what inspired her to write came in the form of two words – “Ewan MacColl”. Peggy and Ewan met in 1956, a meeting which would result in a long personal and musical partnership. One of her first...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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given. The scheme is administered by EFDSS and supported by The Unthanks through fundraising concerts. A contemporary of Ewan MacColl, Graeme wrote his first song at the age of 14 and after hearing the traditional songs of Tyneside, set himself a...
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citation recognised Sandra’s extensive career that that began in the 1960s, when she joined the Critics Group, led by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Sandra’s career moved into the media including writing and presenting the BBC Schools radio programme...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Press Ganghttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=3004:press-gang&catid=55
parents to pay off the ‘Yellow Admirals’, leaders of these gangs, to ‘remove’ unwanted lovers. From the singing of Ewan MacColl. This song was part of Singing Histories, a national project led by Sing London to create booklets and resources containing...
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- Author: EFDSS
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singers in the 1950s, who set out to explore and develop a particularly ‘British’ sense of tradition, led by people like Ewan MacColl and A.L.Lloyd. They were in turn heavily influenced by American folk song and the work of people like Alan Lomax. This...
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- Author: EFDSS
- Category: English Folk Song
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