English Music
12/2/24
Northumbrian Smallpipes
FIELD RECORDINGS
FARNE - Folk Archive Resource North East - field recordings, manuscripts, etc
OTHER RECORDINGS
Chris Ormston on Soundcloud. Also includes 1929 HMV recordings of Tom Clough.
The Northumbrian Small Pipes - anthology released on Topic Records 1996
English Song
http://www.englishfolkinfo.org.uk/ - a comprehensive guide to resources (Martin Nail)
Mainly Norfolk - lyrics, recording info, etc (Reinhard Zierke)
English Dance (Traditional)
The Village Music Project (Chris Parrington's ABC transcriptions)
Hardcore English (book & CD); discussion on thesession.org - may be out of print?
English Country Dance
English Country Dance Videos (compiled by Lambertville Country Dancers)
Cumulative index of Barnes Tune Books (created by Michael Barraclough)
CDS Boston Centre - English Country Dance Collection - sound samples of 15 CD's recorded by Bare Necessities
Bare Necessities (Bandcamp)
Colin Hume - dance instructions and music
Gary Roodman - Audio samples are available on The CD page and the DanceIndex page. There is also a list of the dances included in the Barnes books.
Odd Sundays Garage Band Recordings - Dance length recordings created during the pandemic for the Odd Sundays (now Oddly Even Sundays) online dance series. These are mostly tunes that have not been commonly recorded.
Oddly Even Sundays online dance with Sharon Green and Kalia Kliban. Select English dance to receive the Zoom invitation; also select Music workshops and jams to receive the set list in advance (folks are welcome to play along, muted).
The Playford Pandemic Project (Lee Shepherd) - audio recordings and commentary