Peter Kennedy

Peter Douglas Kennedy, collector and musician, November 18, 1922 - June 10, 2006.

Peter Kennedy's father, Douglas, was director of the EFDSS after Cecil Sharp.

Kennedy was one of the presenters of the BBC folk music programme As I Roved Out, broadcast during the 1950s, which featured field recordings of traditional singers. Working for the BBC and on his own account, he went on collecting trip across the British Isles, collaborating with other collectors including Alan Lomax, Seamus Ennis, and his aunt Maud Karpeles. His recordings were featured on the 1960s Caedmon LP series The Folk Songs of Britain, while later Kennedy founded the Folktrax label.

Publications

• Peter Kennedy, Folksongs of Britain and Ireland: A Guidebook to the Living Tradition of Folksinging in the British Isles and Ireland, Containing 360 Folksongs from Field Recordings Sung in English, Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Channel Islands French, Romany and Tinkers' Cants, etc. (London: Cassell, 1975).
  Arranged by region and by theme, largely from field recordings made by Kennedy in the 1950s, and including other bibliographical information.

Obituaries

• The Guardian Obituary, Derek Schofield June 19, 2006

• The Independent Obituary, Ken Hunt June 16 2006

External references

• Wikipedia article

• Folktrax archive