ENB24 TRAVELLER'S JOY

Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005  - Compiled by Mike Yates; musical transcriptions by Elaine Bradtke; editorial assistance by David Atkinson and Malcolm Taylor; audio recordings by Mike Yates. Traveller's Joy is a celebration of the extraordinary and ultimately unique musical legacy of the Gypsies and Travellers of England and Scotland.

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English folk songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts - The long-awaited new edition of Marrow Bones! Marrow Bones was originally published in 1965 and edited by Frank Purslow, Marrow Bones played a crucial role in the burgeoning folk song revival of the 1960s, providing young singers with a whole new repertoire. Out of print for many years, Marrow Bones has been completely revised by Malcolm Douglas and Steve Gardham, with new and extensive notes on the songs.

ENB26  HARDCORE ENGLISH

Tunes from manuscript, recorded and aural sources - This inspired collection of 300 tunes gives an overview of our current understanding of English traditional dance music. This book includes booklists of re-published musicians manuscripts, important compilations of English traditional music. Fascinating studies of English traditional musicians, how folk music varies regionally and an up-to-date guide to the enormous resources, including thousands of tunes now available on the internet.

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Also available is a double CD - EFFDSS13 which includes 32 tracks of tunes from the book played by top English musicians.

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ENB29  BEFORE THE NIGHT WAS OUT - This book of tunes from East Anglia and is a resource for practising musicians, but this 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 Anglian.

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ENB31 THE BRIGHTEST OF ENTERTAINERS   Contents

     Jig dolls are fascinating and elusive; they are dolls, puppets, toys, wooden artefacts, elements of social history, and percussion instruments. They feature in folk art, local history, and traditional music.
     This eagerly awaited revised and expanded edition of the seminal work on jig dolls 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 being reproduced in full colour. A bibliography and an index have been added.
     Following Rennie's death in 1987, Pat continued to amass information and images from a huge range of sources, and eventually found an ally in Katie Howson, then Artistic Director of the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, who was both willing and ideally placed to help in Pat's wish to publish an expanded edition. Pat and Katie worked together on and off over several years, taming the torrent of new
material and shaping it into this new publication.
     This edition pieces together a history from descriptions, printed references and museum examples from the British Isles and goes on to describe three case studies (Yorkshire, East Anglia, and the Seth Davy legend). Reaching beyond the British scene, it explores evidence of dancing dolls in Europe, the United States and Canada, Australia and Africa, and surveys commercially produced jig dolls and mechanical dancers. It ends with a round-up of recent developments and innovations before
handing on the task of further exploration to the next generation of jig doll enthusiasts.

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Known primarily as a singer and songwriter, Lal Waterson is shown, through this beautiful accompanying new book, to be much more—a versatile and vibrant artist. The 15 songs on the CD confirm her stature as a songwriter of rare imagination, depth and rich beauty; combine this ability with the many drawings, paintings, thoughts and poems illustrated in the book and a clearer picture emerges of Lal's individual, tender, intense, complex but ultimately very human talents.

Teach Me To Be A Summer's Morning is curated by Lal's daughter Marry Waterson and offers a unique, intimate portrait of Lal , through a wonderful selection of her work from a life lived making sense of the world through music, words, and pictures.