The Bismarcks : Joanna - Traditional dance music from England.

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Root & Branch 2 : Everybody Swing CD, articles and essays, graphics and photos

The Bismarcks : Upstream

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The Apted and Other Country Dances

EFDSSCD06

Black Crow/ White Crow : Annie Dearman, Vic Gammon & Steve Harrison

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The English Dancing Master 

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Welcome To The Dance : Double CD

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Absolutely Classic: The Music of William Kimber

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Root & Branch 1 : A New World CD, articles and essays, graphics and photos

Traveller’s Joy: Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005: Compiled by Mike Yates; musical transcriptions by Elaine Bradtke; editorial assistance by David Atkinson and Malcolm Taylor; audio recordings by Mike Yates.

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Dance to Your Daddy - Dual speed folk music for special needs activities

a specialist resource produced primarily for special needs educators. The music is recorded twice at different speeds so that dancers and singers, who need a bit of thinking time, can practice at their leisure and move up a pace, if needed, at a later time. The Gloworms and Dan and Caroline Hollingshurst provide the music.

Listen to the Band

Double CD containing 52 tracks from the sound archives of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library collection of 78rpm commercial dance recordings containing  a great variety of musical styles and dances.

This may be the closest we will get to a musical performance by the great Cecil Sharp, first Director of the English Folk Dance (and later Song) Society. Sharp himself directed the first recordings, with the Victor Military Band in 1915, while on one of his teaching and folk song collecting visits to the USA.

From the First World War to the Second World War Sharp’s influence was dominant in the choice of dance and music repertoire and in many of the arrangements.

After the War it was Douglas Kennedy, Sharp’s successor as Director, who was the guiding spirit in the work of EFDSS and you can listen to recordings of him playing with The Square Dance Band and also directing recordings of the other bands that sprang up in the early 50s to meet the popularity of ‘community’ dances promoted by Douglas, plus the Square Dance craze that erupted after Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were seen dancing in Canada.

Hardcore English Double CD

This double CD which accompanies the book of the same title, contains thirty-two tracks of tunes played by many of the leading ceilidh bands, including The Old Swan Band, The Bismarcks, Geckoes, Florida and Pete Coe.

HARDCORE ENGLISH - Book and CD offer

Gloworms- Running Joak

‘One of the youngest, most distinctive, original and uplifting ceilidh bands in the country’ was how fRoots magazine described The Gloworms, a London based three-piece band. The CD is a mixture of traditional and recently-written tunes, some composed by band members. The tunes are played at dance tempo.

Community Dances Manual CD

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A Century of Song: A Celebration of Traditional Singers since 1898