7/13/25
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
SESSIONS
Phoenix Folk Online Northumbrian Session - 3rd Sunday 6pm UK time. Play-along session on Zoom, playing in a tuning compatible with Northumbrian Pipes. Website includes a downloadable tunebook in original key or transposed.
Phoenix Folk Online Session - Mon & Thurs 8pm UK time. Play-along session on Zoom led my Marina Dodgson (fiddle) & Maurice Condie (guitar), includes some Northumbrian tunes along with well-known session tunes. Standard tuning. Downloadable tunebooks.
EVENTS
Northumbrian Smallpipes Weekend at Halsway Manor. March 2024 Event.
http://www.englishfolkinfo.org.uk/ - a comprehensive guide to resources (Martin Nail). May contain obsolete info.
Mainly Norfolk - lyrics, recording info, etc (Reinhard Zierke)
Jon Boden's "A Folk Song A Day" (365 songs; 2010-2011)
Andy Turner's "A Folk Song A Week" (Aug 2011-Apr 2025). You find songs accompanied by Anglo concertina using https://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/tag/anglo-concertina/ Andy has another blog at https://squeezedout.wordpress.com/ where he posts instrumental tunes played on concertina and melodeon.
Golden Hind Music : order John Roberts & Tony Barrand recordings; includes track listings & lyrics
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 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. Colin recently (7/25) added a feature to create backing tracks by selecting Backing from the drop-down list for "Inst."; it should also work with tunes in ABC format from other sources.
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.
Gary Roodman's Calculated Figures - recordings on Bandcamp: MGM Reunion, Cilantro and other musicians. See also Fast Friends recorded by Bare Necessities.
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
City Folk - a film that explores the 20th-century revival of English Country Dance through the history of Pinewoods. Completed in 2018, released in 2025, but much of its content was filmed at Pinewoods in 1999. I recommend reading the accompanying PDF The Story of Pinewoods and English County Dance in America before or while watching. The film draws on the book City Folk by Daniel Walkowitz (2010 NYU Press), available as a download. Also see "5 Things" interview & after-talk with Danny Walkowitz.