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The Apted and Other Country Dances

Playford style dance tunes from the 1970s archive recordings



24 Dances from the last years of the eighteenth century.
Reissued from the original 1970s archive recordings.

Track listing:
CD 1:
1. The Dressed Ship
2. The Parting Lovers
3. The Touchstone - Lord How's Jig
4. The Pleasures Of The Town
5. A Trip To Highgate
6. The Spaniard
7. The Alderman's Hat
8. Shrewsbury Lasses
9. The First Of April
10. The Happy Captive
11. The Bischop
12. The Comical Fellow
13. The Lasses Of Portsmouth
14. A School For Scandal
15. The Fandango
16. The Barley Mow
17. The Merry Meeting

CD 2:
1. Mutual Love
2. Once A Night
3. A Trip To Dublin
4. The Corporation
5. Bath Carnival
 6. The Free Mason
7. The Way To Norwich
8. The Hole In The Wall
9. No-body's Jigg
10. The Bashful Swain
11. Sadler's Wells
12. Ormond House
13. Draper's Maggot
14. Kemp's Jigg
15. Christ-Church Bells In Oxon
16. Greensleeves and Yellow Lace
17. Pretty Nun

Price: £10.00

Cecil Sharp House Choir: Twice Good Morning (CD)




Featuring a selection of glorious a capella harmony arrangements of traditional songs from the British Isles and beyond, mostly arranged by its inspiring leader Sally Davies, both the concert and CD will draw on the best of the choir’s repertoire, created over the past seven years since it was established by EFDSS in 2008.

Track listing:
1. Bedlam Boys
2. Lovely on the Water
3. The Outlandish Knight
4. The False Knight on the Road
5.The Handweaver and the Factory Maid
6. Ballad of Grace Darling
7. Shallow Brown
8. Poverty Knock
9. The Oak and the Ash
10. Lovely Joan
11. The Broomdasher
12. Bushes and Briars
13. Woodford May Song
14. Jovial Broom Man

Price: £2.00

A Century of Song (CD)

A Celebration of Traditional Singers since 1898 released to mark the society's centenary in 1998.




Compiled and edited by Derek Schofield and Malcolm Taylor, who also wrote the notes on the singers and the songs

This collection especially important for any traditional folk song fans for making available the 5 tracks of phonograph recordings made in the first decade of this century. These enable us to have at least a small sample of how folk sang at the time. These tracks whilst lacking in audio quality, pay dividends by repeated listening to them.

Price: £10.00

Dance to your Daddy

Dual speed folk music for special needs activities.


Music by The Gloworms and Dan and Caroline Hollingshurst
A specialist resource produced primarily for special needs educators. The music is recorded twice at different speeds so that dancers and singers, who need a bit of thinking time, can practise at their leisure and move up a pace at a later time.

Special offer price!

Price: £2.00

'Eight more bars please' with Tenpenny Bit

CD with Dance Notation Booklet

Price: £2.00

The Elizabethan Sessions

One week, Eight Artists, New Music Inspired by the Elizabethan Era




EFDSS and Folk by the Oak commissioned eight leading folk musicians to create new work inspired by the Elizabethan age, culminating in 2 performances, a CD release and a special set at Folk by the Oak 2014.

Price: £10.00

English Traditional Dancing (CD)

11 dance tunes taken from the book of the same name




Dance List:
1. Circassian Circle (Uncle Bernard’s Polka) - Pesky
2. Galopede - John Kirkpatrick
3. Dorset Ring Dance (Roxburgh Castle and Gilderoy) - Malarkey
4. Three Meet - Pesky
5. Brighton Camp - Heterophony
6. Six Hand Reel (Farewell to Whiskey) - Heterophony
7. Marmhull Dance (Girl with the Blue Dress On and Astley’s Ride) - Pesky
8. Johnny Fetch Your Wife Back (Johnny Get Your Hair Cut) - John Kirkpatrick
9. Turn Off Six (Soldier’s Joy) - Vic Godrich, Helen Morris, Leigh Dyer
10. Cumberland Long Eight (Morpeth Rant & Soldier’s Joy) - Pesky
11. Norfolk Long Dance (The Perfect Cure & Captain Nemo) - Heterophony

Price: £15.00

Hardcore English CD

Tunes from manuscript, recorded and aural sources ... for the internet age

Compiled and edited by Barry Callaghan




From 2007

Price: £15.00

Listen to the Band

Dance music from the sound archives

Two CD set, total running time over 2.5 hours


Unlocking the treasures of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
A chronological compilation of commercial recordings covering the first two periods of English folk dancing revival from the beginnings at the start of the 20th century through the mid 1960s, which span the whole of the era of 78rpm shellac records.
Only bands and orchestras, apart from one piano solo, are included.

Disk 1
1. Rufty Tufty
2. The Butterfly
3. Brighton Camp
4. Argeers
5. Helston Furry Dance
6. Christchurch Bells
7. Galopede
8. Glorishears
9. The Triumph
10. Speed the Plough
11. The Black Nag
12. Lilli Burlero
13. Kirkby Malzeard Sword Dance
14. Maypole Dance
15. Maypole Dance
16. Maids' Morris
17. Green Sleeves and Yellow Lace
18. The Ribbon Dance
19. Soldiers Joy
20. The Dressed Ship
21. Galopede
22. Yorkshire Square Eight
23. Amarillis
24. Hunt the Squirrel
25. Sellenger's Round
26. Steamboat

Disk 2
1. Tunes For The Sleights Sword Dance, Fig. 3
2. American Square Dance Reels
3. The Bishop
4. Nancy's Fancy
5. The Queen's Jig
6. Shetland Isles Marches
7. Corn Rigs
8. The Shrewsbury Lasses
9. Jingle Bells & Johnny's Down The River
10. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
11. English Square Dance Selection
12. American-English Tunes For Square Dances
13. Mony Musk
14. Sicilian Circle
15. The Bonny Breast Knot
16. The Tempest
17. Tunes For Square Dancing
18. Dargason
19. Abram Circle Dance
20. Jack's Maggot
21. Hornpipes
22. Drops Of Brandy
23. Double Lead Through
24. Circle Waltz
25. Fast Reels For Square Dancing
26. Glover's Reel

Special offer price!

Price: £2.00

Longsword: The Music

CD of Music for the dance traditions of Kirkby Malzeard, Sleights and Flamborough

Price: £6.00

Maypole Manual CD

Mike Ruff and Jenny Read




This is the accompanying 14 track CD to the Maypole Manual book. A complete full colour pictures and diagrams of 19 different dances.

Buy as a set with the Maypole Manual

Price: £12.00

Root & Branch 1 – A New World


CD Compilation, 1999



Tracks:
Cara Dillon Van Diemen's Land
Enoch Kent Van Diemen's Land
A. L. Lloyd Jim Jones At Botany Bay
Fred Whiting The Wild Colonial Boy
Fred Whiting Harkie's Polka
Johnny Doughty The Streets Of Port Arthur
Almeda Riddle Tom Sherman's Barroom
Doc Watson St. James's Hospital
Melcena Smith & Elias Fazer The Butcher Boy
I.D. Beck & Congregation Of Mt. Olivet Regular Baptist Church Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow
Evelyn Ramsey Little Margaret
Doug Wallin Tom Dula
Cathal McConnell The Shores Of Lough Bran
Paul Brady The Green Fields Of Canada
Walter Pardon Won't You Come To Me In Canada?
Carl Bruce I Been A Swede From North Dakota
Frank Hinchliffe The Pear Tree
Frank Hinchliffe Edward
Frank Hinchliffe Wild And Wicked Youths
Helen Chadwick Who Am I?

Price: £1.00

Root & Branch 2: Everybody Swing

CD Compilation, 2000



Tracks:
George Webb's Dixielanders The Soldier's Lament
Margaret Barry She Moved Through The Fair
Lord Kitchener London Is The Place For Me
Lord Kitchener, accompanied by Rupert Nurse and his Trinidad Troubadours Sweet Jamaica
Wizz Jones (Soundbite, Untitled)
Chicago Bill Five Foot Seven
Michael Gorman & Willie Clancy The Rambling Pitchfork Fasten The Legging
Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group The Midnight Special
Ted Poole (Soundbite, Untitled)
Scan Tester & Rabbity Baxter Jenny Lind
Ewan MacColl Go Down Ye Murderers
Various Sing Christmas And The Turn Of The Year (edited)
Cyril Poacher Australia
Bobby Casey The College Grove Colonel Frazer Reels
Marjorie Fennessy (Soundbite, Untitled)
Square Dance Band of the EFDSS Roxburgh Castle The Durham Rangers
Tony Foxworthy (Soundbite, Untitled)
The Haymakers Square Dance Band The Ring Dance: Gilderoy Dorsetshire Hornpipe
Jimmy Shand And His Band Bonnie Dundee Rock And Wee Pickle Tow Atholl Gathering
Jane Turriff Rigs Of Rye
Jane Turriff Dowie Dens O' Yarrow
Jane Turriff Away Out On The Mountain
Walter And Daisy Bulwer, Billy Cooper (2), Reg Hall, Mervyn Plunkett & Russell Wortley Bluebell Polka

Price: £1.00

Sweet Liberties

Martyn Joseph, Sam Carter, Patsy Reid, Nancy Kerr, Maz O'Connor, Nick Cooke



Tracks:
Kingdom
Rich Man's Hill
Am I Not A Man
Dic Penderyn
Seven Notes
This Old House
Twelve Years Old
Lila
Broad Waters
Nye
Dark Days
Written On My Skin
Broken Things
One More River

Price: £12.00


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