Absolutely Classic - The Music of William Kimber

First encountered by Cecil Sharp on Boxing Day 1899 when playing for the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers, William Kimber (1872-1961) was a vigorous anglo-concertina player. During the next 60 years, he was to become a central figure in the ensuing Morris revival and hailed the ‘Father of the Morris’, illustrating Sharp's lectures and inspiring generations of dancers and musicians.

This "enhanced CD" produced by Talking Elephant Records in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, celebrates the music and continuing influence of William Kimber (dancer, teacher and musician) of whose dancing Alfred Littleton wrote in The Musical Times in March 1911: "his grace and movements are absolutely classic".

Includes; rare film footage and photos on enhanced CD.

Track Listing

01.	Constant Billy
02.	Talk: Boxing Day 1899
03.	Bean Setting
04.	Talk: Boxing Day 1899
05.	Getting Upstairs
06.	Rigs o’Marlow
07.	Talk: Mary Neal
08.	The Twenty Ninth of May
09.	Country Gardens
10.	Talk: Steinway Hall
11.	Trunkies
12.	Bacca Pipes
13.	The Willow Tree
14.	Talk:Cecil Sharp
15.	Hunting the Squirrel
16.	Jockie to the Fair
17.	Rodney
18.	Up with the Lark in the Morning
19.	Double Set Back
20.	Talk: Dance Style
21.	The Blue Eyed Stranger
22.	Over the Hills to Glory
23.	The Morris Reel
24.	Talk: Women Dancing the Morris
25.	Double Lead Through
26.	Laudnum Bunches
27.	Old Mother Oxford
28.	The Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket
29.	Rigs of Marlow – John Graham
30.	Shepherd’s Hey
31.	Haste to the Wedding
32.	Laudnum Bunches – John Kirkpatrick

CD compiled by Derek Schofield, first Published by EFDSS, 1999

TECD161

Talking Elephant Records 2010