Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; performance of the Calder Valley Pace Egg Play by members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre. Recorded on 29 March 1975, in a Halifax shopping precinct. Includes audience comments and responses. Variable sound level, as the performers move around. [Tr. 4]


[Collector announcement]; performance of the Midgley Pace Egg Play by 5th and 6th year pupils of the Calder Vale High School, outside the Central School in Hebden Bridge, 28 March 1975 (Good Friday). Variable sound level, as the performers move around. Some distortion. [Tr. 5]

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9.5cm/sec.

Related material

An index card, originally in the tape box, containing information on the performances, is held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/015.


Printed and manuscript items relating to traditional drama are held in the Folk Life File at LAVC/FLF/14/4.



Nigel Swan's M.A. research exercise (Leeds, 1975), 'The Pace-Egg Play in the Upper Calder Valley: Evidence Relating to a Folk Play Tradition, Illustrating its Features and Social Function from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. A Discussion of its Continuity' ( LAVC/SRP/1/087).

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