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Bibliography and photos of Bob Cann and the Pixies, plus notation of the dances that are regularly danced in the village halls of Dartmoor.

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Also available is VT113CDR 'A Dartmoor Country Dance Party'

which includes recordings of Pixies playing for the dances in the book (now download only).

ENB3 MANY A GOOD HORSEMAN

'A Survey of Traditional Music Making in Mid-Suffolk' - John Howson Detailed information and reminiscences from a lively musical tradition. Includes over 100 photos.

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Also available is VTDC8CD 'Many a Good Horseman' the double CD which includes singers and musicians mentioned in the book

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ENB20 BLYTH VOICES

This book focuses on songs noted down by Ralph Vaughan Williams who visited Southwold in Suffolk in 1910. He collected fifteen songs from local fishermen particularly the Hurr family. The book contains scores for all the songs, plus lyrics and notes and also photographs and biographies of the singers.

EATMT Book - £5.99 Out of stock, new revised and expanded edition due 2024.

ENB29 BEFORE THE NIGHT WAS OUT

This book of tunes from East Anglia is more than just a tune book. It’s aim is to shed light on the way in which traditional music in Suffolk and Norfolk has thrived and mutated during the 20th century. Polkas, waltzes, hornpipes, schottisches and jigs, with comparative versions, transcribed from recordings of more than 20 different melodeon, fiddle & dulcimer players, as well as biographies, photographs and contextual information about traditional music in East Anglia.

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ENB31 THE BRIGHTEST OF ENTERTAINERS Contents

Jig dolls are many things - dancing dolls, puppets, toys, wooden artefacts, percussion instruments. This revised and expanded edition of the seminal work by Rennie and Pat Pickles (1988) has twice the number of pages in the original book and more than three times the number of illustrations, the majority now in full colour, as well as a bibliography and index. Following Rennie's death in 1987, Pat Pickles continued to amass information and images, and eventually found an ally in Katie Howson, then Artistic Director of the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, to help in her wish to publish an expanded edition. Pat and Katie worked together over several years, taming the torrent of new material and shaping it into this new publication which pieces together a history from descriptions, printed references and museum examples from the British Isles. The authors describe three case studies (Yorkshire, East Anglia, and the Seth Davy legend) and then reach beyond the British scene, to explore evidence of dancing dolls in Europe, the United States and Canada, Australia and Africa. The book then surveys commercially produced jig dolls and mechanical dancers before ending with a round-up of recent developments and innovations. The book was shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award in 2019.

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