EDS Vol 44 No 2

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Cover: Bonnie Shaljean and Packie Byrne at the Sidmouth Festival. Photograph by Ian Anderson.

CONTENTS

SOME DORSET REEL STEPS

Contributed by Joan Flett and Ann-Marie Hulme with notes by Anne Clayton, Gillian Oates and John Wesencroft. Compiled by Dave Townsend.

JEZ LOWE

Dave Arthur takes a brief look into the background of this popular young singer.

=SONGS

Two of Jez Lowe's compositions.

Cursed be the Caller

The High Part of the Town

BLACK COUNTRY STORIES

Roy Palmer relates some of the outrageous exploits of the Balck Country heroes Aynoch and Ayli (Enoch and Eli)

TOM HUGHES:Border Fiddler

Peter Shepheard describes the life style and playing of this fine traditional musician.

TUNES

Two tunes from the playing of Tom Hughes recorded and transcribed by Peter Shepheard:

Tam's Old Love Song

Morpeth Rant

MEETING COUNTRY DANCES

Roy Dommett seems to find dances wherever he goes and in this article he passes on some of the dance information he's come across in the South of England.

DANCE

Two versions of the Russian Ballet, collected by Roy Dommett in Farnborough and Basingstoke.

BOB ROBERTS: BARGEMAN

The second and final part of Bob Robert's autobiography including The Yellow Handkerchief, Windy Old Weather, and Up the Sides and Down the Middle. Recorded and edited by Dave Arthur.

MORRIS WORKSHOP: A YORKSHIRE TRADITION -WITH FLEMISH LINKS?

Trevor Stone describes an exciting Flemish Sword Dance from Antwerp.

A FOLK MUSIC PIONEER: PERCY GRAINGER

Dr Jane O'Brian, the Australan authority, assesses Grainger's influence on folk music scholarship. 1982 is the Centenary of Grainger's birth.

TWO MOUNTAIN STORIES

Jack and the King's Chest and Chuckle Pea and His Sister,. Collected by Mike Yates from the North Carolina singer and storyteller, Hattie Presnell.

CORRESPONDENCE

REVIEWS

Books and records.

TRADITIONAL DANCE CONFERENCE

EFDSS NEWS

BRIAN WILLCOCKS

John Dowell interviews the Society's new Development and Marketing Officer

GOLDEN JUBILEE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

Winner's photos.

BAD GIG GUIDE; ELECTRIC FOLK; ELASTIC FOLK

OBITUARIES

Percy Ling

Grace Meikle

W.G.Neil



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