EDS Vol 43 No 2

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Cover: Manley Morris Dancers

SPECIAL FEATURES

I AIN'T A LOVER OF THAT FOLK MUSIC! - PERCY BROWN - NORFOLK MUSICIAN

Dave Arthur's impressions and memories of Percy Brown, who died in December 1980.

MEDLEY MANIA

John Kirkpatrick says that if a tune is worth playing once it's worth playing a hundred times.

EIGHT SONGS COLLECTED BY MAURICE OGG

Prepared by Roy Palmer as a tribute to Mo'Ogg who died in December 1980, aged 34.

The Travelling Tinker

Mary Had A Ploughboy

Once I had A Sweetheart

All For The Grub

The Blin' Mare

Get a Little Table

The Soldier's Return

The Rag Shop

BEGINNING THE MELODEON

A brief note to beginners from Bevis A Colmer

WHAT"S HAPPENING

A look at recent developments in the folk world.

FOLK PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Shuel's classic photographs of Abbott's Bromley Horn Dancers.

DANCING ENGLAND 1981

Derek Schofield looks at The Traditional Dance Event, organised annually by the Black Cap Swordsmen, and asks, "Why hasn't it been done before?".

COPY OF GP MORICE DANCERS MR MANNING

Bob Grant, Mike Heaney and Roy Judge research the background of the earliest known photograph of the Headington Quarry Morris men

ELSIE J. OXENHAM: A CHRONICLER OF THE FOLK MOVEMENT

Joan Peck shows how the popular author for girls used the folk movement as the theme for so many of her books.

FIFTY YEARS OF DANCING

A tribute to Mary Ireson of the North-East Hampshire District

JINGLES

A request for reader's jingles.

100 YEARS AGO

Mayday in London - 1876

TWO DANCES FROM JULIAN PILLING

Reprinted from ED&S 1965 and 1966

The Five-hand Reel

Kendal Guild

THREE NEW TUNES

The Sid Kids Polka (Nigel Chippendale)

Passport Polka (Nigel Chippendale)

Heron Point Waltz (John Stapleton)


REGULAR FEATURES

MORRIS WORKSOP. THE MARSTON PROCESSIONAL MORRIS DANCE

Collected from the villagers of Marston by Tim and Jan Beasant, Anne Cohen and The Poynton Jemmers.

CORRESPONDENCE/REVIEWS

OBITUARIES

Gladys Ledger

Charles Parker

Bill Price

Fidler Sturch


Issue Editor: Dave Arthur

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