I don't think this message made the Ballads@Jiscmail list so, with
apologies to those who've already received it..
Julia
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From: Nancy-Jean Seigel <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Flanders Ballad Collection--new CD available
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Some list members may know that the nine books of songs from the Flanders
Ballad Collection represent only a fraction of the material collected by
Helen Hartness Flanders (assisted by George Brown, Elizabeth Flanders
Ballard and Marguerite Olney). In the approximately 4500 musical field
recordings there are fiddle tunes; broadside ballads and local folk songs
and Child ballads from around Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United
States; vaudeville and pre-vaudeville pieces; songs in native American
languages; songs in foreign languages; and sailors’ songs. A great deal of
the material remains unreleased in any form and copies of the field
recordings are available only at Middlebury College, the Library of
Congress and Harvard University.
Some of you might like to know that Folk-Legacy Records has just released a
CD of 16 songs that highlight the Irish aspect of the Flanders Ballad
Collection. It’s called “Irish Songs from Old New England: Traditional
Irish-American Songs from the Flanders Ballad Collection.” Some of the
pieces are exceptional and rare. “Cork Harbor” is a version of Laws
K6. “The Peelers of Ballinamore” and “McCormick & Kelly” were probably
never before collected in North America.
The ballads are sung by three All-Ireland Champions (Frank Harte, Jim
McFarland, Len Graham) plus Gordon Bok, Martin Carthy, Bob Conroy, Louis
Killen, Bonnie Milner, Dan Milner, Deirdre Murtha, Robbie O’Connell,
Caroline and Sandy Paton and Ian Robb. The introduction and song notes are
by fellow list member, Dan Milner.
The Folk-Legacy web page is http://www.folklegacy.com/cd/cd132.htm
Nancy-Jean Ballard Seigel
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Julia C. Bishop (Dr)
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
University of Sheffield
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