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musical instruments33
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culture31
folk music28
english language - dialects19
community life16
manners and customs14
occupations11
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Russell, Ian10
Bergal, Nancy Ann4
Gifford, Terry4
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)3
Baldwin, John R2
Couldwell, Jack2
Curtin, John2
Gimbert, Claude2
Shaw, David H2

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)

15 April 1972

Stape Silver Band, conducted by Mr. E. W. Hill, recorded in Danby Methodist Chapel; play instrumental medleys, and accompany congregational hymn singing. A Mrs. Nicholson sings two songs, with piano a...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

22 December 1974

Open-air carol service, with brass band accompaniment, recorded in Skelmanthorpe.

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

14 December 1972

Assembled company singing carols in the Black Bull pub, Ecclesfield, with brass accompaniment. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A200r.

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

10 February 1980

Session recorded at the Grove Folk Club in Leeds, featuring Andy Brown and Gil Evans on accordions, Dave Taylor and Jerry Brownridgeon banjos, and Dave Priestley on the bodhran. Spoons and the penny w...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings and plays the ukulele, [2 unidentified songs]. [Tr. 11] Female and mixed chorus sing 'Pratty Flowers' and [ 'Old Tommy Nobbler']. [Tr. 12] Male sings 'The ...

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Sound Recording, [North Yorkshire]

Woods, Peter J E

1970

Frank Weatherill [recorded in Danby] plays the cello, accompanied on the piano and violin by two unidentified people [possibly a Mr. Jones, and Mary ?, who accompany him on tape LAVC/SRE/A681r]. Not a...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

December 1972

Assembled company singing carols in the Black Bull pub, Ecclesfield, with brass accompaniment. Includes also text and song from the Derby Tup play. A member of the assembled company describes performi...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Jack Couldwell, interviewed in his own home in Worrallby Terry Gifford. Describes Christmas carol singing in Worrall, the route followed in Sheffield; part singing, piano accompaniment (symphonies) an...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Jack Couldwell, interviewed in his own home in Worrallby Terry Gifford. Talks about his grandfather and the Big Set (Christmas carol band), and describes the instruments played, route taken, houses vi...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Martin Flannery, interviewed in his own home in Sheffield by Terry Gifford. Describes his personal involvement in the local carolling tradition, and singing as a youngster in the Stannington area of S...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

06 Dec 1979 - 13 Dec 1979

John Barstow, recorded in Leeds, talks about Irish folk songs, Irish immigrants working on building sites [?in Leeds], folk singing in pubs in period after World War Two; folk clubs in Leeds in 1979; ...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Ernest Dyson and his wife Mina Dyson, recorded in their home in Stannington, Sheffield. Discussion of local carols in Sheffield - names of carols and localities to which they refer; Stannington brass ...

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