Folklife Quarterly FQ 40: Jan 2014 Folklife Quarterly, web version

FQ F lklife Quarterly Folk News Bywyd Gwerin yn Chwarterol JAN. 2014 ION. 2014 Above, from left: MARI LWYD, SE Wales, before Christmas to New Year (2 photos); UP-HELLY-AA, Lerwick, Shetland, Last Tue in Jan (2 photos); STRAW BEAR DAY, Whittlesea, Cambs, Sat nearest 6 Jan; GOATHLAND PLOUGH STOTS, N.Yorks, 1st Sat after Plough Monday; Haxey Hood Game, Haxey, Lincs, 6 Jan; Chinese New Year, 31 Jan 2014. See Seasonal Local Celebrations, inside back cover. Photos © Doc Rowe £2 48 PAGE S v Clubs • Concerts • Singarounds • Dance Clubs & Ceilidh Series v Sesssions for Song - Music - Poetry - Storytelling v this issue includes Workshops Directory & 100s of other listings TORY DIRECbers’ Directory em The Folklife M rs p provide folk worksho  lots of news • festival diary • workshop diary and articles ● ‘Beating the Bounds’ by Roy & Lesley Adkins. ● ‘Ballad Singers of the Border’: J. Kyrle Fletcher, by Roy Palmer ● Song: ‘The Life of a Man’ by Charles Menteith, with notes ● News from Folklife Societies: Includes An Introduction to the Song Collectors Collective ● Seasonal Local Celebrations: a list by Doc Rowe, plus some notes The Fleece Inn Bretforton, WR11 7JE www.thefleeceinn.co.uk 01386 831173 [email protected] The quintessential English pub Real Ales & Ciders * Good Food * Apple Orchard Morris Dancing * Music Sessions * Folk Concerts Forthcoming Events Sat 11th Jan: Wassail! From 6.30pm Sun 19th Jan: Fleecey Folk: Jackie Oates 8pm Wed 5th Feb: The King & The Corpse feat. Sheena Mukherjee Sun 16th Feb: Fleecey Folk: Pilgrims Way 8pm Sun 16th March: Fleecey Folk: Lucy Ward 8pm Sun 20th April: Fleecey Folk: Gordon Gilltrap8pm Giltrap 8pm Wed 21st May: Fleecey Folk: Breabach 8pm Folk Night – open to all Every Thursday in the Pewter Room from 8.30/9pm Freda Black [with Kathleen Hawkin], a Romany Gypsy singer. Photo © Sam Lee. See article on the Song Collectors Collective