Music and songs-- tales of yesterday-- Artists of today.
The folk tradition lives on re-shaping itself and morphing as time goes by--Artists past and present. and some poems and yarns. Stories from the old people and tales of the riverbank and fellside.
![Photo: BELVEDERE SESSION, 2 pm, 19th SEPTEMBER 2013
There was another extremely enjoyable session at the Belvedere on Thursday afternoon with a healthy turnout. Once again John Routledge treated his Northumbrian Pipes [and us] to a welcome afternoon out.
Cask Conditioned Beers Available: -
Liverpool Organic:
Best Bitter [4.2%]
Iron Men [4.0%]
Cambrinus St Anthony’s Ale [5,2%]
Celtic Gold [4,0%]
9 of us performed 27 songs, recitations or tunes: -
Colin Batho: The Recruited Collier [Roud 3503.]
Fred McCormack [Minus singing voice]: Recitation – There’ll be No Fascism Here [Own]
Danny Krumbein: Roll the Woodpile Down [Roud 4443]
Colin Owen: The Prickly Bush [Child 95, Roud 144]
John Routledge: The Last of the Widows [Jez Lowe]
Michael Locke: Tramps and Hawkers [Roud 1874]
Yvonne Taylor: The Loyal Lover [Roud 578]
Jim Irvine: The Rooster [Anon]
Helen McCall: Katie Shaw [Roger Watson]
CMB: The Maid of Australia [Roud 1872(5)]
FMcC: Recitation: The Ballad of Birmingham [Dudley Randall]
DK: Joe Hill [Earl Robinson]
CO: Horncastle Fair [Roud 21234]
JR: The Letter [Boris Veron]
ML: Adieu, Adieu [Roud 490 (2)]
YT: Mary Mild [Child 173, Roud79]
JI: Ye Can’t Fling Pieces [Adam McNaughton]
HMcC: The Men Who Make Missiles [Kevin Littlewood]
CB: Nine Miles from Gundagai [Roud 10221]
FMcC: Recitation: Dulce Et Decorum Est [Wilfred Owen]
DK: Tune: The Boys of Blue Hill
CO: Letter From Wilfred [Alan Bell]
JR: Pipe Tunes – Sweet Hesleyside/The Hesleyside Reel
ML: The Curragh of Kildare [Roud 594 / Robert Burns / Anon]*
YT: An Old Maid in a Garret [Roud 802]
JI: Whiskey in the Jar [Roud 533]
HMcC: High Jeanie High [Roud 2897]
I did not keep a death count this week. It was not high but there were some.
*I do not wish to be drawn into the debate concerning this song’s origins. See Mudcat thread: - http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=11870
I have been considering giving the session a name by borrowing the title of the 1995 CD by Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr.
The picture shows John Routledge and Michael Locke practicing a tune before the start of the session.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/p480x480/1236994_10151604755390988_333044966_n.jpg)
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