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Kent

2025-11-19T05:31:08Z

Ozaru: Added Folklore Kent, some books; tidied links, and headers/structure

== Traditional Song ==

''for individual singers, see'' '''[[Singers by County#Kent|List of traditional singers from Kent]]'''

We know of relatively few traditional songs and singers from Kent, certainly in comparison with the neighbouring county of Sussex. This is quite probably simply because collectors have not spent much time in the county. Of the early twentieth century collectors, [[Cecil Sharp]] made only three brief visits to Kent - in July 1908 he visited Trottiscliffe to note down children's games and singing games at the village primary school; in September of the same year he noted a dozen songs from four singers (principally [[James Beale]]) in the Hamstreet area, on the edge of Romney Marsh; and he returned to Hamstreet in May 1911 to note down carols from Mr Beale's daughter [[Alice Harden]]. [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] collected a handful of songs from a Mr and Mrs Truell at Perry Street, Northfleet, in December 1904; [[Percy Grainger]] recorded a song from [[Samuel Holdstock]] of Wittersham in 1908; and [[George Jekyll]], [[Marion Arkwright]] and [[Anne Gilchrist]] also collected a few songs in Kent.

The largest collection of songs sung in Kent is probably that made in the 1940s by [[Francis Collinson]]. In the 1950s [[Peter Kennedy]] recorded a few singers in the county, including [[Albert Beale]] and [[Charlie Scamp]] (step-brother of [[Phoebe Smith]], who was herself born at Faversham).
More recently [[Mike Yates]] has recorded Kentish singers including [[Jack Goodban]], [[Charlie Bridger]] and [[George Spicer]] (a singer resident in Sussex for over half his life, but who born at Little Chart, and learned many of his songs as a young man in Kent).

Mike Yates is just one of several collectors to have recorded songs from gypsy singers who lived in or travelled through the county - [[Jasper Smith]], [[Chris Willett]] and [[Joe Jones]] to mention just a few. [[Simon Evans]] in particular has spent much time with Kentish travellers, filming step-dancing, and recording singers such as [[Ambrose Cooper]].

=== Bibliography - Song ===

*George Frampton, ''In search of Cecil Sharp: the Folk Song Society in Kent'', Bygone Kent, January 1998

== Traditional Customs ==
[[Biddenden Dole]]

[[Hoodening]]

=== Bibliography - Customs ===
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Folklore of Kent'', The History Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0752426280
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''A Kent Christmas'', Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1990. ISBN: 0862997674
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey'', Meresborough Books, 1992. ISBN: 0948193743
*George Frampton, ''[https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/hoodenbook.html Discordant Comicals: the Hooden Horse of East Kent]'', (Ozaru Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-9931587-7-3)
*George Frampton, ''A Kentish Muse: Essays on Musical Tradition from the Pages of Folk in Kent'', (Tonbridge: The Author, 1998)
*George Frampton, ''A Second Kentish Muse: More Essays on Musical Tradition in Kent'', (Tonbridge: The Author, 1998)
*James Frost, ''[https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/animal-guising.html Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse]'', (Ozaru Books, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-915174-06-2)
*Percy Maylam (ed. Ben Jones), ''[https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/maylam.html The Hooden Horse of East Kent - Annotated Edition]'', (Ozaru Books, 2021, ASIN: B09NZ582G3)

== Organizations ==
*Folklore Kent ([https://www.instagram.com/folklorekent Instagram], [https://www.facebook.com/people/Folk-Lore-Kent/61582611251290/ Facebook]) was set up by James Frost in 2025 to 'celebrate the stories, places, customs and creative communal weirdness of Kent'.

[[Category: County]][[Category: Kent]]

Media

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Ozaru: Updated/deleted media or sites that no longer exist, made headers less UK-centric, added extra info, changed most http to https, etc.

==UK-wide Magazines==

===Dancing On!===

Journal of [[Open Morris]].

===English Dance & Song===

The magazine of the [[EFDSS]], English Dance & Song is the longest-established magazine devoted to folk music, dance and song in the country.

First published in 1936, it has appeared four times a year ever since.

[https://eds.efdss.org website] [[EDS Contents]]

===Folk Life===

''Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies'', to give it its full title, is the journal of The [[Society for Folklife Studies]]. It is devoted to the study of all aspects of traditional ways of life, and publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed research, about topics including museology, cultural heritage and tourism, and the history and development of ethnology.

[https://folklifestudies.org/home/journal/ website]

===Folk Music Journal===

Also issued by the EFDSS.

===Folklore===

Journal of the [[Folklore Society]].

===Morris Circular===

Journal of [[Morris Ring]].

===Morris Matters===

Journal of [[Morris Federation]].

===Now defunct===

====fRoots====

This was an international magazine featuring a wide range of traditional and roots music; they described themselves as covering ''Local Music from Out There''. It entered voluntary insolvency in July 2019, and its editor Ian Anderson went on to run a podcast, [https://www.podwirelesswords.com/ PodWireless].

[https://www.frootsmag.com/ website]

====Living Tradition====

This was a bi-monthly Folk & Traditional music magazine that ceased publication in Aug/Sep 2022, after over 14 years. Its main aim was ''to highlight the rich heritage of traditional music in the British Isles and further afield, and attempt to bring it to a wider audience''.

[https://shop.livingtradition.co.uk/ website]

==Regional Magazines==

===Tradition Today and trad.===
An occasional e-journal and newsletter (respectively), both issued by the [[Centre for English Traditional Heritage]].

===Folk Monthly===

Folk Monthly is a Midlands publication carrying articles, reviews, diary listings and adverts for folk clubs, sessions, festivals and performers. It is published 11 times a year, and is for sale in folk clubs, music shops and by subscription.

For further information see [http://www.folkmonthly.org.uk web site] or email
[mailto:info@folkmonthly.org.uk the editor]

===Taplas===

Published bi-monthly, Taplas serves the folk and traditional music scene in wales.
Contains the latest news & listings, features and reviews.

[http://www.taplas.co.uk/ website]

===TykesStirrings===

An amalgamation (since early 2020) of Tykes News (West Yorkshire) and Stirrings (South Yorkshire) edited by Nigel Schofield and typeset by Jim Ellison.
Quarterly Yorkshire magazine carrying gig information and reviews from the region. The link also leads to FiloFolk, an online directory administered by Jim Ellison and Michael Hardeman.

[https://www.tykesstirrings.org.uk/ website]

===Now defunct===

====Folk Roundabout====

Folk Roundabout was a subscription magazine covering north east England, i.e. Teesside, North Yorkshire, Durham, Tyneside, Northumberland, and bits of Cumbria. It had news and gigs for folk clubs, sessions, dance sides, and performers, festival details, and CD reviews. It was published four times a year, and was for sale in some folk clubs in the region.

====Shreds and Patches====

Shreds & Patches was a free folk magazine for Shropshire and surrounding areas comprising articles which included reviews, dance contacts, club and session details and event listings. It was published 3 times per year. Its editor [https://www.mustrad.org.uk/obits/mainwaring.htm Sheila Mainwaring died in 2020].

[https://www.shredsandpatches.org.uk/ website]

====Stirrings====

Stirrings was founded in 1974 as ''The South Yorkshire Folk Diary'', and published at least four times a year thereafter. It acquired its new name in 1980, had a long and complicated history under a series of editors, and eventually merged with Tykes News (see below).

[https://www.stirrings.org.uk/ website]

==US-wide magazines==

===Journal of American Folklore===

===Journal of Folklore Research===

===Western Folklore===

==Internet Magazines==

===Musical Traditions===

Founded as a paper magazine by the late Keith Summers in 1983 and revived on the Internet in 1996 by Rod Stradling, this magazine covers a wide range of world traditional music.

[[Musical Traditions]]

[[Musical Traditions Magazine]]

[http://www.mustrad.org.uk/ web site]

===Broadside Magazine===

"Hugely influential in the folk-revival, Broadside Magazine was founded in 1962 by Agnes “Sis” Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen, as a small mimeographed publication. The magazine reflected the times. It was often controversial, and was the subject of questions in one of Bob Dylan’s many news conferences, as seen in the Martin Scorcese documentary on Bob Dylan released in 2005. Issues of what is folk? what is folk rock? and who is folk? were roundly discussed and debated. At the same time, Broadside nurtured and promoted important singer-songwriters of the era.

By the end of the seventies it had virtually ceased publication. In 1982 it was revived by Norman Ross, President of Clearwater Publishing (a publisher of microfilms and reference books) after the firm had microfiched the entire backfile, and Jeff Ritter, a musician and folklorist."

[http://broadsidemagazine.com/?page_id=2 Read more]

==UK-wide Radio==

===BBC Radio 2===

The Mike Harding Show - Wednesday 8pm

Station site: [http://bbc.co.uk/radio2/ BBC Radio 2]

Programme page: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/ Web page]

Frequency: 88.1 to 90.1 FM

Stream: via the [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/biography.shtml presenter's page]

==Regional Radio==

===West Yorkshire===

====Bradford Community Broadcast====

Tim Moon presents a weekly folk music programme on BCB - Mondays at 8pm.

Station site: [http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1 Bradford Community Broadcast]

Programme page: [http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=20&MMN_position=42:42 "Folk Us"] Click on 'Monday'

Frequency: 106.6FM

Stream: [http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u Listen online]

====PhoenixFM====

Commenced broadcasting in the Halifax area in December 2007 under an OfCom Community License. Hosts a two hour folk and roots music slot from 10am to noon each Sunday with a rota of presenters covering a wide range of folk and roots styles.

[http://www.phoenixfm.co.uk/ Phoenix FM]

Frequency: 96.7FM

Stream: [http://www.radiohosting.co.uk:8000/phoenix.m3u PhoenixFM On Line]

===South Yorkshire===

====Sheffield Live====

Commenced broadcasting in November 2007 under an OfCom Community License. Hosts a two hour folk music show, '''''Thank Goodness It's Folk''''' from 10am to noon each Friday
presented by James Fagan and Sam Hindley.

Frequency: 93.2FM

* [https://web.sheffieldlive.org/shows/thank-goodness-its-folk/ Thank Goodness It's Folk]

===Glasgow===
====Celtic Music Radio====
Celtic Music Radio is the only UK-based radio station which focuses primarily on traditional and contemporary celtic/folk/scottish-influenced music. It broadcasts 24x7 on 1530 kHz AM/MW in and around the Glasgow and Clyde area, and a stream is also available. It commenced broadcasting in January 2008.

Frequency: 1530 kHz

* [http://www.celticmusicradio.net/ Celtic Music Radio]
* [http://www.celticmusicradio.net/celtic_live.m3u Live stream]
* [http://www.celticmusicradio.net/schedules.html Schedules]

==Internet Radio==

===Smithsonian Folkways===

What better way to put a collection of historic recordings to good use than to stream them via Live 365 Internet Radio [http://www.live365.com/stations/folkways Listen]

===WUMB Boston===

Dedicated US Folk Music station [http://www.live365.com/stations/wumb919fast Listen]

==National TV==

==Regional TV==

==IPTV==

==Folk Journalists==

==Book Publishers==

===English Folk Dance & Song Society===

The EFDSS have published a variety of books over the years on a variety of subjects. Tunes, songs, dances, essays, mumming and guising, bibliographies, etc.

Currently, the easiest way to review the current titles is via the Folkshop publications catalogue page [http://folkshop.efdss.org/publications/index.htm]

===Mally Productions===

Dave Mallinson came up the hard way to become one of the prime music publishers on the English folk scene.

Read his story [https://www.mallyproductions.com/evolution here] and check out the available titles.

===Ozaru Books===

The owner being a [[hoodening|hoodener]], this boutique publishing house has issued [https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/kent.html three books about hoodening] as well as including information about folk traditions in other publications.

[https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks website]

Hoodening

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Ozaru: Corrected typos, updated text overall, added new works to bibliography

'''Hoodening''' is an East Kent folk custom, performed by ''Hoodeners'' and a ''Hooden Horse'', consisting of a wooden horse's head with snapping jaw, mounted on a pole, with sackcloth to cover the body of the operator/actor. The earliest record of the word is 1735-6, and the earliest description is 1807. Numerous references appeared in the 19th century press, often describing it as 'nearly extinct' or 'revived'. When Percy Maylam published his seminal work "The Hooden Horse" in 1909, he also saw the custom as 'declining', but while some of the groups (or 'teams') Maylam describes only appear to have performed for a few years, while others kept it up for a decade or more. Various groups continued to perform after 1909, until in 1966 the original horse 'Dobbin' re-awoke in the parish of St Nicholas-at-Wade with Sarre, where the Hoodeners have performed a new [[folk play]] each year for over half a century since.

Other 'revival' groups have appeared more recently, notably in Deal and Whitstable. Each gives the custom their own twist, with Deal, for example, focusing on sea shanties and other songs, while Whitstable follows the St Nicholas lead in performing a play, although their content is quite different and taken from other areas of the country.

The Hoodeners of St Nicholas make a distinction between a ''hooden'' horse (as used in hoodening), a ''mast'' horse (as used in hoodening but also in [[soul caking]] and some [[mumming]] and [[mummering]] groups), a [[tourney horse]] (as used at [[Minehead]] and [[Padstow Obby Oss|Padstow]]), a [[sieve horse]] (as used in [[Lair Bhan|Ireland]] and [[Schimmelreiter|Germany]]), and a [[Hobby Horse]] (a rather vague term, which includes the well-known children's toy comprising a horse's head on a stick with wheels at the bottom, the early forms of velocipede, and sundry [[Morris beasts]] and the like).

== See also ==
*[[Mari Lwyd]]

== Bibliography ==
*Percy Maylam, ''The Hooden Horse'', (privately published, 1909); ''[https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/maylam.html The Hooden Horse of East Kent: Annotated Edition]'', (Ozaru Books, 2021, [http://a-fwd.com/br=ozaru02-20&cn=ozaru-23&jp=ozaru-22&es=ozaru04-21&it=ozaru0a-21&fr=ozaru01-21&de=ozaru09-21&uk=ozaru-21&ca=ozaru0f-20&com=ozaru-20&s=Ozaru+Books&asin=B09NZ582G3 ASIN B09NZ582G3])
*George Frampton, ''[https://bit.ly/Hoodening Discordant Comicals: the Hooden Horse of East Kent]'', (Ozaru Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-9931587-7-3)
*James Frost, ''[https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/animal-guising.html Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse]'', (Ozaru Books, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-915174-06-2)
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey'', Meresborough Books, 1992. ISBN: 0948193743

== External links ==
*[https://hoodening.org.uk/ Hoodening website]

[[Category: Kent]][[Category: Folk play]]

National

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Ozaru: /* Folk Arts England */ This was dissolved 4 years ago... updated (inc. AFO website)

== The English Folk Dance and Song Society ==
[[Image:Efdss_square.jpg]]

These pages are hosted by the [http://www.efdss.org English Folk Dance and Song Society], the longest running society in England dedicated to promoting the folk arts. With a headquarters in Regent's Park Rd, London and members all over the world, the EFDSS has an important part to play in passing on the traditions and culture of England to those who wish to carry them onward.

The hub of the Society's work is the [http://library.efdss.org Vaughan Williams Memorial Library], a significant multi-media collection in care for the nation.
Most of the major collections of tunes and songs are scanned and available online. An ever increasing number of the dance and tune books documents have been transcribed into ABC format, that display as a score alongside the original, the tunes can also be played online.

The Society is a publisher of books, audio and video and all current titles are sold by mail order or from the [http://folkshop.efdss.org Folkshop].

The quarterly magazine is English Dance and Song which includes online enhancements in the form of audio and pdf files on its [http://eds.efdss.org web site].

The EFDSS also host the web site for the [http://www.folkplay.info/ Traditional Drama Research Group], whose interests are in Mummers Plays and traditional street drama.

== The Morris Ring ==
http://www.themorrisring.org/

== The Morris Federation ==

The Morris Federation began as an organisation for female sides only. In 1980, it opened its doors to mixed sides and in 1982 it became open to any morris side, regardless of gender. A year later, the word 'Women's' was dropped from the name. The Federation has always taken the view that the dances themselves are more important than the gender of the dancers who perform them. It seeks to encourage all who are interested to experience the pleasure of morris dancing and to strive for the highest standard of execution of which they are capable.

http://www.morrisfed.org/

== Open Morris ==

Open Morris began in 1979 as a loose organisation of East Anglian dancers, following efforts by one of the (then) few mixed Morris sides in the country to find local friends and sympathisers.

At that time there was much rivalry between members of the all-male Morris Ring (founded in 1934) on one side and the Women's Morris Federation, which came into being in the mid 1970's on the other. Both organisations agreed that Morris Dancing shouldn't involve a mixing of the sexes! (Although "WMF" did later become the Morris Federation and expanded its membership to include male and mixed groups).

http://www.open-morris.com/

== Folk Arts England ==

FolkArts England (FAE) was a national development agency for Folk, Roots and Traditional Music. It was funded by [http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/| Arts Council England] and incorporated The Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) and published Direct Roots, the guide to folk, roots and related music and arts. FAE was dissolved on 4 March 2014 (qv [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05546472 Companies House]), although AFO still exists.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120512140917/http://www.folkarts-england.org/ FAE website (archive)] [http://www.festivalorganisers.org/ AFO website]

==The Folklore Society==

The [[Folklore Society]] (FLS) was founded in 1878 and was one of the first organisations in the world devoted to the study of traditional culture. The term 'folklore' describes the overarching concept that holds together a number of aspects of vernacular culture and cultural traditions, and is also the name of the discipline which studies them.

The Folklore Society's interest and expertise covers topics such as traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief. We are also interested in popular religion, traditional and regional food, folk medicine, children's folklore, traditional sayings, proverbs rhymes and jingles.
[http://www.folklore-society.com/index.htm web site]

==The Folk Camps Society==

The Folk Camps Society is a not-for-profit holiday organisation run by its own members. The Society was founded in the early 60s when a group of folk enthusiasts decided it would be fun to go on holiday together, eat together and make their own entertainment without spending a fortune. They run holidays under canvas with an emphasis on folk dance, music and song.
[http://www.folkcamps.co.uk/ web site]

==The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club==

The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club is a national club that promotes all forms of Dulcimer, i.e. Hammered or Plucked Dulcimer, and the Mountain (Lap) Dulcimer. The club has regular newsletters and hosts both national and regional events.
[http://www.nonsuchdulcimer.org.uk/ web site]

==The Traditional Song Forum==

[http://www.tradsong.org website - www.tradsong.org]

TSF is an informal organisation of researchers and enthusiasts for traditional song and traditional singing whose aim is to encourage research and dissemination of information about traditional song. There are usually three meetings a year in different parts of England where there are presentations of topics related to song research and where members can discuss aspects of their research or use of song with colleagues.

==Society for Storytelling==

Active since June 1993, the SfS is an open organisation which welcomes anyone with an interest in oral storytelling

http://sfs.org.uk

User:Ozaru

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Ozaru: Added link to Hoodening (and Kent)

As "George", I've been a member of the [[Hoodening|Hoodeners]] in East [[Kent]] for over 40 years - and counting.

Professionally, my main job is as a qualified Japanese interpreter/translator (Fellow of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting, ITI); I also handle other languages via my company BJ Translations Ltd.

As a sideline I run a publishing business (Ozaru Books) focused on East Kent, East Prussia and East Asia; and I am also a professional musician (primarily classical, via the Impromptu Ensemble as well as numerous local orchestras etc.).

Drama

2019-01-10T12:50:07Z

Ozaru: Added Hoodening (with link) and Boyden Gate Mummers in new subsection South East

''category editor Dr Eddie Cass''
== Room, Room, Brave Gallants, Give us Room to Sport! ==
'''''.....for in this place we do resort'''''

to bring you information on the spectacle that is the Mummers Play, plus any other form of traditional street drama.

Your first stop in any study of this form of drama must be the Traditional Drama Research Group whose [http://www.folkplay.info web site] is hosted by the EFDSS. The site is full of scripts, pictures and information about plays all over the world.

===Plays performed now===

The [http://www.mastermummers.org/groupslist.php Master Mummers Directory of Folk Play Groups] has a comprehensive list of over 250 active groups, arranged by county and searchable by keyword. Photographs of many of these groups can be found in the Folk Play Research website's [http://www.folkplay.info/Gallery/Photographs.htm Photo Gallery].

====North West====

[[Antrobus]] [[Cheshire]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9Ngz5F1Ww&feature=related You Tube]

[[Comberbach Soulcakers]] [http://www.soulcakers.com/ Web site]

====North====

[[Middleton Mummers]] Cowling [[West Yorkshire]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKasaiKS5zg&feature=related You Tube]

[[Long Company]] Ripponden. [[West Yorkshire]] [http://www.ryburn3step.org.uk/mummers.htm web site]

[[Midgley Pace Egg]] Calder Valley. [[West Yorkshire]]

[[Heptonstall Pace Egg]] Heptonstall, Calder Valley. [[West Yorkshire]]

[[Bradshaw Mummers]] Bradford area, [[West Yorkshire]]

====North East====

[[Byker Mummers]] Newcastle on Tyne [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEOsMBMcxk&mode=related&search= You Tube]

[[Fylingdale Mummers]] Fylingdale, near Whitby, North Yorkshire

====East====

[[Northstow Mummers]] Cambridge. Cambridgeshire.

====South Midlands====

[[Haddenham Mummers Play]] Haddenham [[Oxfordshire]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvL7VaFYsPM&feature=youtube_gdata You Tube]

[[Towersey Mummers]] Towersey [[Oxfordshire]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvL7VaFYsPM&feature=youtube_gdata You Tube]

====South====

[[Ditchling]] [[Lewes]] [[Sussex]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8sPFPh8xM&feature=related You Tube]

[[Frome Valley Morris Men Mummers Play]] Weymouth, [[Dorset]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPInzda-k_k You Tube]

[[Hammingdon Mummers]] [[Ardingly]] [[Sussex]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrSoQuvGrY&feature=related You Tube]

[[Wessex Morris Men Mummers Play]] Cerne Abbas, [[Dorset]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8lzIW2fw_Q&mode=related&search= You Tube]

====South West====

[[Marshfield Mummers]] Marshfield, Gloucestershire

[[South Zeal]] [[Devon]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtsI_eof0j0&feature=related You Tube]

====South East====
[[Hoodening]] East [[Kent]]

[[Boyden Gate Mummers]] Marshside, East [[Kent]]

== Miscellaneous ==

=== Jig Dolls ===

It's difficult to place Jig Dolls in the structure of Folkopedia but here in 'Drama' is as good a place as any for the moment. They should warrant their own section at some point in the future. In the meantime.......

Jig Dolls are dancing dolls made of wood and typically activated by bouncing a wooden plank underneath them. Have a look at this video of Pat Pickles and all will become clear.

[http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=464446710907721742 Jig Dolls on Google Video]

==Articles==

[http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/wren.html Hunting the Wren] This article is written by Peter Wood, who is originally from Co. Monaghan, with photography of the Dingle Wren by Christy McNamara, who is originally from Co. Clare. Peter and Christy have collaborated on a book entitled "The Living Note: The Heartbeat of Irish Music", published by O'Brien Press and Robert Rinehart.

Cecil Sharp's Note 85 (1916)

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Ozaru: Linked Hooden Horse to the relevant article here; also added one missing space

No. 85. Poor Old Horse

For other versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 75 and 260; volume ii, p. 263); Miss Mason's ''Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs'' (p. 49); ''Songs of the West'' (No. 77, 2d ed.); and ''Songs of Northern England'' (p. 60).

The song was evidently one that was sung during the ceremony of the hobby horse, for example, the [[Hoodening|Hooden Horse]] in Kent (see ''The Hooden Horse'', by Percy Maylam). A kindred ceremony, also associated with a song, "The Dead Horse," is still celebrated by sailors after they have been a month at sea (''English Folk Chanteys'', p. 73).

The tune is partly Mixolydian.

Hoodening

2019-01-10T12:45:25Z

Ozaru: First brief page

'''Hoodening''' is an East Kent folk custom, performed by ''Hoodeners'' and a ''Hooden Horse''. The earliest record of the word is 1735-6, and the earliest description is 1807. Numerous references appeared in the 19th century press, but the custom was 'declining' when Percy Maylam published his seminal work "The Hooden Horse" in 1909. Some of the groups (or 'teams') Maylam describes only appear to have performed for a few years, while others kept it up for a decade or more. Various groups continued to perform sporadically after 1909, until in 1966 the original horse 'Dobbin' re-awoke in the parish of St Nicholas-at-Wade with Sarre, where the Hoodeners have performed a new [[folk play]] each year for over half a century since.

Other 'revival' groups have appeared more recently, notably in Deal and Whitstable. Each gives the custom their own twist, with Deal, for example, focusing on sea shanties and other songs, while Whitstable follows the St Nicholas lead in performing a play, although the content is quite different.

The Hoodeners of St Nicholas make a distinction between a ''hooden'' horse (as used in hoodening), a ''mast'' horse (as used in hoodening but also in [soul caking]] and some [[mumming]] and [[mummering]] groups), a [[tourney horse]] (as used at [[Minehead]] and [[Padstow Obby Oss|Padstow]]), a [[sieve horse]] (as used in [[Lair Bhan|Ireland]]), and a [[Hobby Horse]] (a rather vague term, which includes the well-known children's toy comprising a horse's head on a stick with wheels at the bottom, the early forms of velocipede, and sundry [[Morris beasts]] and the like).

== See also ==
*[[Mari Lwyd]]

== Bibliography ==
*Percy Maylam, ''The Hooden Horse'', (privately published, 1909)
*George Frampton, ''[http://bit.ly/Hoodening Discordant Comicals: the Hooden Horse of East Kent]'', (Ozaru Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-9931587-7-3)
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey'', Meresborough Books, 1992. ISBN: 0948193743

== External links ==
*[http://hoodening.org.uk/ Hoodening website]

[[Category: Kent]][[Category: Folk play]]

Kent

2019-01-10T12:09:05Z

Ozaru: /* Traditional Customs */ Updated "Hooden Horse" to "Hoodening" as the section is "customs"

===Traditional Song===

''for individual singers, see'' '''[[Singers by County#Kent|List of traditional singers from Kent]]'''

We know of relatively few traditional songs and singers from Kent, certainly in comparison with the neighbouring county of Sussex. This is quite probably simply because collectors have not spent much time in the county. Of the early twentieth century collectors, [[Cecil Sharp]] made only three brief visits to Kent - in July 1908 he visited Trottiscliffe to note down children's games and singing games at the village primary school; in September of the same year he noted a dozen songs from four singers (principally [[James Beale]]) in the Hamstreet area, on the edge of Romney Marsh; and he returned to Hamstreet in May 1911 to note down carols from Mr Beale's daughter [[Alice Harden]]. [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] collected a handful of songs from a Mr and Mrs Truell at Perry Street, Northfleet, in December 1904; [[Percy Grainger]] recorded a song from [[Samuel Holdstock]] of Wittersham in 1908; and [[George Jekyll]], [[Marion Arkwright]] and [[Anne Gilchrist]] also collected a few songs in Kent.

The largest collection of songs sung in Kent is probably that made in the 1940s by [[Francis Collinson]]. In the 1950s [[Peter Kennedy]] recorded a few singers in the county, including [[Albert Beale]] and [[Charlie Scamp]] (step-brother of [[Phoebe Smith]], who was herself born at Faversham).
More recently [[Mike Yates]] has recorded Kentish singers including [[Jack Goodban]], [[Charlie Bridger]] and [[George Spicer]] (a singer resident in Sussex for over half his life, but who born at Little Chart, and learned many of his songs as a young man in Kent).

Mike Yates is just one of several collectors to have recorded songs from gypsy singers who lived in or travelled through the county - [[Jasper Smith]], [[Chris Willett]] and [[Joe Jones]] to mention just a few. [[Simon Evans]] in particular has spent much time with Kentish travellers, filming step-dancing, and recording singers such as [[Ambrose Cooper]].

== Bibliography - Song ==

*George Frampton, ''In search of Cecil Sharp: the Folk Song Society in Kent'', Bygone Kent, January 1998

==Traditional Customs==
[[Biddenden Dole]]

[[Hoodening]]

== Bibliography - Customs==
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Folklore of Kent'', The History Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0752426280
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''A Kent Christmas'', Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1990. ISBN: 0862997674
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey'', Meresborough Books, 1992. ISBN: 0948193743
*George Frampton, ''[http://bit.ly/Hoodening Discordant Comicals: the Hooden Horse of East Kent]'', (Ozaru Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-9931587-7-3)
*George Frampton, ''A Kentish Muse: Essays on Musical Tradition from the Pages of Folk in Kent'', (Tonbridge: The Author, 1998)
*George Frampton, ''A Second Kentish Muse: More Essays on Musical Tradition in Kent'', (Tonbridge: The Author, 1998)

[[Category: County]][[Category: Kent]]

Kent

2019-01-10T12:06:48Z

Ozaru: /* Bibliography - Customs */ Updated details for Discordant Comicals

===Traditional Song===

''for individual singers, see'' '''[[Singers by County#Kent|List of traditional singers from Kent]]'''

We know of relatively few traditional songs and singers from Kent, certainly in comparison with the neighbouring county of Sussex. This is quite probably simply because collectors have not spent much time in the county. Of the early twentieth century collectors, [[Cecil Sharp]] made only three brief visits to Kent - in July 1908 he visited Trottiscliffe to note down children's games and singing games at the village primary school; in September of the same year he noted a dozen songs from four singers (principally [[James Beale]]) in the Hamstreet area, on the edge of Romney Marsh; and he returned to Hamstreet in May 1911 to note down carols from Mr Beale's daughter [[Alice Harden]]. [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] collected a handful of songs from a Mr and Mrs Truell at Perry Street, Northfleet, in December 1904; [[Percy Grainger]] recorded a song from [[Samuel Holdstock]] of Wittersham in 1908; and [[George Jekyll]], [[Marion Arkwright]] and [[Anne Gilchrist]] also collected a few songs in Kent.

The largest collection of songs sung in Kent is probably that made in the 1940s by [[Francis Collinson]]. In the 1950s [[Peter Kennedy]] recorded a few singers in the county, including [[Albert Beale]] and [[Charlie Scamp]] (step-brother of [[Phoebe Smith]], who was herself born at Faversham).
More recently [[Mike Yates]] has recorded Kentish singers including [[Jack Goodban]], [[Charlie Bridger]] and [[George Spicer]] (a singer resident in Sussex for over half his life, but who born at Little Chart, and learned many of his songs as a young man in Kent).

Mike Yates is just one of several collectors to have recorded songs from gypsy singers who lived in or travelled through the county - [[Jasper Smith]], [[Chris Willett]] and [[Joe Jones]] to mention just a few. [[Simon Evans]] in particular has spent much time with Kentish travellers, filming step-dancing, and recording singers such as [[Ambrose Cooper]].

== Bibliography - Song ==

*George Frampton, ''In search of Cecil Sharp: the Folk Song Society in Kent'', Bygone Kent, January 1998

==Traditional Customs==
[[Biddenden Dole]]

[[Hooden Horse]]

== Bibliography - Customs==
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Folklore of Kent'', The History Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0752426280
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''A Kent Christmas'', Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1990. ISBN: 0862997674
*Fran & Geoff Doel, ''Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey'', Meresborough Books, 1992. ISBN: 0948193743
*George Frampton, ''[http://bit.ly/Hoodening Discordant Comicals: the Hooden Horse of East Kent]'', (Ozaru Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-9931587-7-3)
*George Frampton, ''A Kentish Muse: Essays on Musical Tradition from the Pages of Folk in Kent'', (Tonbridge: The Author, 1998)
*George Frampton, ''A Second Kentish Muse: More Essays on Musical Tradition in Kent'', (Tonbridge: The Author, 1998)

[[Category: County]][[Category: Kent]]