Music

Category Editor Paul Burgess

Music is an integral part of singing and dancing and often an accompaniment to other activities like processions and ceremonials.

Folk tunes are very often divorced from their original setting and played just for the joy of it.

Here we can pool information about where the tunes came from, who published them and when, what they were used for, who used them, how they travelled and where they are to be found now.

Books

• 'The Fiddler of Helperby' The Life & Music of a Yorkshire fiddler James Merryweather & Matt Seattle (1994)
• 'Joshua Jackson' Tunes, Songs & Dances from the 1798 Manuscript of Bowen & Shepherd - Yorkshire Dales Workshop (1998)

Resources

• The Village Music Project
  

A study of English social musicians from the 17th Century onwards from their manuscripts. Contains information about fiddle manuscripts, plus many of their contents transcribed into abc format.
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/

Traditional Players

Here's a list to kick things off.

England

• Will Atkinson
• Stephen Baldwin
• Billy Ballantine
• Percy Brown
• Walter Bulwer
• Bob Cann
• Bertie Clark
• Billy Cooper
• Jimmy Cooper
• Septimus Fawcet
• Adam Gray
• Tom Hunter
• Joe Hutton
• Bill Kimber
• Arthur Marshall
• Ned Pearson
• Fred Pigeon
• Jim Rutherford
• Willy Taylor
• Scan Tester
• Jinky Wells
• Font Whatling
• Fred Whiting
• Arnold Woodley
• Oscar Woods