Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Description

Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions - Burscough Hornblowers; First Footing and beliefs regarding good/bad luck for the coming year; birth traditions; christening traditions; weddings - when, colours, sayings, rings, musicians, food, drink, (step) dancing at wedding feast, singing; funeral customs, beliefs, funeral tea. Reference to Croston, Ormskirk and Rufford. [Tr. 1]


Female singing with accordion accompaniment [words indistinct]; male sings 'She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage' [with piano accompaniment] - audience joins in; woman sings pace egg song [with piano accompaniment]. [Tr. 2]


Explanation of Pace Egg custom [in Burscough] - describes costumes, characters, quotes lines spoken, sings children's version of Pace Egg Play. [Tr. 3]


1 of 3.

Biography or history

Emma Vickers, Chair of Burscough and Latham Old Age Pensioners' Club.

Access and usage

Reproduction

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. Recording quality poor in places - two songs not copied onto AC037.

Related material

Audio recordings of Emma Vickers are also held within the John Howson Collection, at the National Sound Archive (http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html) in London (Reference C1034/1 C1-9).


Valerie Calvert's B.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1962), 'The Pasche Egg' ( LAVC/SRP/2/165). Tape transcription held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/001.

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