Hello Folks, I’m delighted to announce that the Folkopedia Project has been successfully re-homed at www.folkopedia.info and is open for business. There will inevitably be some teething problems such

Greetings Can I ask a favour? As with the old yahoo group, messages appear with the complete thread wagging its tail behind them. When replying to a thread, is it too hard to delete the opening and su

Hello, I'm trying to find out more about this tune which appears in several music MSS books. So far I know of it in the following sources - the MSS of: I.Jackson 1823, John Rhodes c1840?, John Keech 1

Assuming we approach some kind of normality by Easter, I've booked accomodation at castleton and near Abbots Bromley to watch the traditional activities. Any thoughts on where there might be a session

Dear people, In another forum, someone has been asking about the little bit of a lullaby featured in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. 'It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat, The mither benea

A tune writtten to be played in the same slightly swung way as Albert Farmer's. I hope that players get the joke with the final crescendo and single very loud note at the end. I still think that over

#Creolequadrilles Something that has been interesting me recently.. The Quadrille went over to plantations in the Caribbean or Indian Ocean with British, French and Spanish colonists. Slaves on those

A manuscript book containing a small collection (27) of dance tunes has been found in Strangers' Hall Museum in Norwich. Alan Helsdon has been looking at it and his findings are posted on the EATMT we

I am posting this message on behalf of Barbara Brown: Barbara Brown writes ... I have a large number of books (many of them folk song, music, dance, drama, custom and lore, but also other arts and mus

X: 1 T: Albert Farmer's Bonfire R: barndance M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: Dmaj |: de | f3 d A2 F2 | G2 GF G4 | edcA B2 c2 | dffd A2 de | f3 d A2 F2 | G2 GF E4 | edcA B2 c2 | d2 d2 d2 :| |: ag | f2 fd f2 f2 | gfed

I tried to get in at the very start of our new group but realise i ended up using the old system. Here'sasecond attempt. This littlecomposition is suposed to sound like a village carol with a semi-fug

Hello All and welcome to the shiny new Tradtunes discussion group. Welcome back to those who have been with us for a while, some of whom may have even been with us since January 2001 when the group st