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From: "Derek Schofield" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'Derek Schofield'" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cecil Sharp Centenary Conference
Date sent: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:23:17 -0000
English Folk Song - Cecil Sharp in Context
A conference to celebrate the centenary of Cecil Sharp's first folksong
collecting
20 - 22 August 2003
On August 22, 1903, Cecil Sharp noted his first folk song, The Seeds of
Love, from John England in Hambridge in Somerset. Over the following
couple of weeks, Sharp and his friend Charles Marson, the local vicar,
collected several dozen songs in the village and surrounding area.
Sharp and Marson's success led to further collecting in Somerset,
publication of the songs, the regeneration of the Folk Song Society and
the revival of the songs in new contexts - especially in schools.
Indirectly, it led to the revival of English folk dance and the folk
music and dance revival which continues today.
To celebrate the centenary of this significant event, Folk South West
will be hosting a major international conference to be held near
Ilminster, just a few miles from Hambridge, in the heart of Sharp's
major collecting region of Somerset.
The Conference Directors are Eddie Upton, Director of Folk South West,
and Derek Schofield.
The conference programme will include a variety of papers and
presentations on the theme of English folksong. It will also give the
opportunity to visit several of the villages where Sharp collected the
songs, including the vicarage in Hambridge, in the garden of which Sharp
collected The Seeds of Love.
Papers and presentations are invited on the following themes:
* Cecil Sharp - his life and work;
* English folksong scholarship;
* Identity in English folksong;
* Folksong revival;
* Prospects for English folksong;
* Sharp's singers
* Folksong collectors and fieldworkers in England;
* Folksong style and performance;
* Folk music in education;
* Work in progress.
Proposals should be submitted by 1 February 2003 to Folk South West (see
contact details below).
The conference will be held in Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset - a
residential centre for education and the arts with full conference
facilities. Further information on the venue is available on
www.dillington.co.uk <http://www.dillington.co.uk/> Dillington House
is close to the M5 motorway (junction 25) and the nearest mainline
railway station is Taunton (conference delegates can be collected from
the station).
The conference programme will be as follows:
Wednesday 20 August: Conference delegates arrive during the day.
Welcome, official opening, dinner and keynote address.
Thursday 21 August: Conference sessions in the morning and
afternoon, lunch, dinner and musical evening.
Friday 22 August: Conference session in the morning,
followed by lunch and coach tour of the villages in Somerset where Sharp
started his collecting, including Hambridge.
Friday evening or Saturday morning: delegates depart.
The conference will be followed by a Community Festival in Hambridge
from Friday evening to Sunday. Conference delegates are welcome to stay
for the weekend.
Contact for further details:
'Sharp Conference', Folk South West, The Stables, Montacute House,
Montacute, Somerset TA15 6XP. Tel: +44 (0)1935-822911. Fax: +44
(0)1935-822024.
Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.cecilsharpcentenary.org.uk
<http://www.cecilsharpcentenary.org.uk/>
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Julia C. Bishop (Dr)
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN
U.K.
Tel: (Direct Line) 0114 222 6295
(NATCECT Office) 0114 222 6296
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