Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A074
Creator(s): Bergal, Nancy Ann
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 15 February 1980
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 37' 00".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414124
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Geoff Wood and Bob Spray, recorded at the Grove Folk Club in Leeds. Talk of folk clubs in Leeds and the role of Brian Senior; also clubs at the Coach and Horses, [?Seven Hills] and the Union Tavern; the folk club at the Grove; folk clubs in the early 1980s; why people go to folk clubs; the Folk Revival; pub singing; traditional/contemporary songs; learning songs; singing style and imitation of styles; the voice and song quality; Music Hall songs; broadside ballads; Geoeff Wood relates story of visit to a music hall in the Lake District; cockfighting in Leeds and a related song - Bob Spray sings 'The Old Moorcock Fight'.
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Biography or history
Geoff Wood (1924-2013) was a founder member of the Grove Folk Club in Leeds.
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