This #FolkFriday we listen to Helen Kennedy talking about her first experience of Morris dancing and how it changed her life. This 1959 recording reveals interesting class-based attitudes towards ‘low’ culture and ‘Englishness.’ 📻C433/15 S2 C1-11 ‘Cecil Sharp’, BBC Home Service 📷MS Mus. 1771/1/PR0267, William 'Jinkey' Wells and the Bampton Morris © Keystone Press Agency Ltd | British Library
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Welcome to our new #FolkFriday series. This week, we take you to Northumberland, 1954, where Jack Armstrong, piper, fiddler and bandleader, composed the tune Rothbury Hills on Northumbrian small pipes. Jack Armstrong, recorded and pictured here, was the piper to the Duke of Northumberland from 1948 to 1971. 🔉Recordist Peter Kennedy, 1954 📷Jack Armstrong on Northumbrian small pipes © Peter Kennedy | British Library
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In our final #FolkFriday post, we present Scottish Traveller singer Jeannie Robertson, who performs the traditional folk song ‘Never wed a’ old man’. Travellers have been among the main folk song carriers of Britain and Ireland – without Traveller culture, the landscape of British and Irish folk music would be much poorer. We hope you've enjoyed our #FolkFriday series! 📼C604/675 C4, ‘Never wed a’ old man’, sung by Jeannie Robertson, 1953, London 📷Jeannie Robertson © Peter Kennedy | British Lib
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This #FolkFriday, we're sharing the "only other working song" in England besides the sea shanty. According to Fred Hamer, "The only other one is one that I have found in Bedfordshire. And that is the song over the lace pillow when the ladies were working their lace. They had songs that kept time with their lace." This lace tell sung by Mrs Fred Hamer is part of a documentary on folklore produced by the Tape-Recorded Library for the Blind (c.1967). 📼 C433/96 S1 C1; S2 C1 extract | British Librar
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. —Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty excerpt. Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ How are you spending the day with your loved one? | British Library
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