EDS Vol 43 No 2
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.
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EIGHT SONGS COLLECTED BY MAURICE OGG
Prepared by Roy Palmer as a tribute to Mo'Ogg who died in December 1980, aged 34.
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
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