Jeff Warner - Long Time Travelling
Jeff Warner is among the nation’s foremost performer/interpreters of traditional music. His songs from the lumber camps, fishing villages and mountain tops of America connect 21st century audiences with the everyday lives–and artistry–of 19th century Americans. “Providing more than just rich entertainment, Jeff will leave you with a deeper appreciation of the land you live in” (Caffé Lena, Saratoga, NY). His songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, bring us the latest news from the distant past.
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Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer - Stones On The Ground
More music and song from these two favourites!
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White Star Lineup - Look Out!
On the night of April 14th 1912, Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. She sank in the early hours of April 15th, claiming more than 1500 lives; among the dead were over 500 crew whose home was Southampton.
Look Out! is the story of Titanic and Southampton, from her anticipated arrival in the town, through the despair of the tragedy, and the consequences for those left behind.
Central to the story are the crew, particularly Fred Fleet, one of the look-outs on that fateful night. He was the first to see the iceberg, and lived with the memories and repercussions for the rest of his life.
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Various Artists - Short Sharp Shanties
This is the first of three CDs which record the repertoire of John Short – a.k.a. Yankee Jack – of Watchet, Somerset in England’s West Country, who, in 1914, gave the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp nearly sixty shanties, several in early rare versions. John spent over fifty years working in sailing boats, much of his younger days in deep-water ships, sailing all around the world as a shantyman. He was born in 1839; went to sea with his father when he was nine; went deep sea at eighteen; married and retired from the deep water trade in his mid-thirties and died when he was ninety-two, in 1933.
Sung by: Jim Mageean, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, Jackie Oates, Roger Watson, Sam Lee, Brian Willoughby, Tom Brown, Barbara Brown, Doug Bailey.
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Mick Ryan - The Paupers Path To Hope
A folk opera, celebrating the extraordinary resilience of ordinary people. By Mick Ryan.
Another folk opera by the author/composer of 'A Day's Work', 'The Voyage', 'Tanks For The Memory' and 'The Navvy's Wife'. Through original song, music, verse, monologue and dialogue, 'THE PAUPER'S PATH to Hope', tells the stories of seven people forced by circumstance to enter the dreaded workhouse of the nineteenth century, but able, by courage and determination to escape its clutches.
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The Old Swan Band - Swan For The Money
This band was born in a Cheltenham pub called The Old Swan (for a time an Irish theme pub and now just The Swan) and the band members are often to be found adding their considerable musical weight to English tune sessions in pub back rooms, having the ability to reach deep into the often hidden vein of English dance repertoire and pull out a gem of a tune which will be delivered to the world in distinctive style. This style is typified by driving fiddles and harmonica, fat brass, persistent and inventive percussion, all glued together with rhythmic and sweet piano. Whether applied to a newly researched tune or to an old favourite, the Old Swan sound is unmistakable.
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Jim Causley - Dumnonia
Including accompaniments from members of The Dartmoor Pixie Band, Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll as well as Jeff Gillett. The intent of this album is to shine a light on the lesser known Devonshire songs and bring them together under a single umbrella to add to the awareness of this rich county in terms of traditional music.
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Tim Laycock - Sea Strands
A collection of songs and tunes all with associations to Dorset where Tim lives.
Tim has long been recognised as a sensitive interpreter of traditional song as well as a masterful writer of his own. He is a superb solo player of the duet concertina as well as being a member of The New Scorpion Band.
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Mick Ryan & Paul Downes - Away In The West
Another albums of songs mainly from the pen of Mick Ryan but this time with the collaboration of Paul Downes.
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Rattle On The Stovepipe - So Far So Good
A compilation of some of the band's best tracks.
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Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner - Tickled Pink
As this, their 4th album, demonstrates, the girls have lost none of their edge in confronting, head-on, the experiences that life can bring.
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