English Music

10/15/24

Northumbrian Smallpipes

• The Northumbrian Pipers' Society

• The Northumbrian Pipers' Society Facebook Page

• Northumbrian Piping Newsgroup (Facebook)

• FARNE - Folk Archive Resource North East - field recordings, manuscripts, etc

• Info about FARNE

• Northumbrian Pipers Society Forster Charlton Online Archive

English Song

• http://www.englishfolkinfo.org.uk/ - a comprehensive guide to resources (Martin Nail)

• Mainly Norfolk - lyrics, recording info, etc (Reinhard Zierke)

• Folk Song and Music Hall

English Dance (Traditional)

• The Village Music Project

• 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)

• Barnes Book of English Country Dance Tunes

• Barnes Three Dance Database

• CDS Boston Centre - English Country Dance Collection - sound samples of 15 CD's recorded by Bare Necessities

• Bare Necessities (Bandcamp)

• Pat Shaw Legacy Group

• 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.

• Sharon Green

• 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.

• Antony’s Database of ~24K dances

• UpaDouble.info

• The Playford Pandemic Project (Lee Shepherd) - audio recordings and commentary

• Playford's Dancing Master

• Shared Weight ECD list