Library Lecture: How Percy Manning saved morris dancing by Mike Heaney
- Date: 16th Jan 2019
- Cecil Sharp House
"Cecil Sharp’s encounter with the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers on Boxing Day 1899 is famous, but it did not spring out of nothing, and would probably not have happened at all if it hadn’t been for Percy Manning, the first serious researcher into morris dancing. The talk will describe how he revived the Quarry dancers as the culmination of a decade-long journey of investigati...
Library Lecture: Cornish Folk Dance by Merv and Alison Davey
- Date: 13th Feb 2019
- Cecil Sharp House
"Folk dance is more than just a collection of steps movement and music; it is a form of human expression and its essence lies within its community role and social context rather than purely commercial or artistic interests. The story of folk dance in Cornwall, from medieval roots, through narratives of the nineteenth Century folklorists, the activity of the Celtic revivalists and on...
Broadside Day
- Date: 23rd Feb 2019
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
"The Broadside Day is our annual one-day conference covering street literature in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last-dying speeches, catchpennies, wonder-tales, almanacs, fortune-tellers, and all kinds of cheap printed material sold to ordinary people in city streets, at country fairs, and from pedlar’s packs up and down th...
Library Lecture: Invisible Music: Angela Carter and Folk Song by Polly Paulusma
- Date: 20th Mar 2019
- Cecil Sharp House
"It is a surprisingly little-known fact that the novelist Angela Carter was a folk singer in the 1960s second-wave folk revival. A newly unearthed archive reveals that she not only co-founded a folk club in the 1960s with her first husband, folk producer Paul Carter, but that she also sang there fortnightly for several years.
This lecture will firstly collate some of the evidence...
Library Lecture: “I am longing for another voyage of discovery in the summer”: The Gill brothers and their collecting of folk songs from the Isle of Man (1894-94) by Stephen Miller
- Date: 17th Apr 2019
- Cecil Sharp House
"The Gill brothers, W.H. Gill (1839–1923) and Deemster J.F. Gill (1842–99) have remained marginalised and neglected figures in the collecting of Manx folk song, overshadowed by A.W. Moore (1853–1909), whose own Manx Ballads and Music appeared in 1896, and by Dr John Clague (1842–1908), whose collection was published in large part in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society betwe...
9th International Conference on Traditional Medicine
- Start date: 16th Sep 2019
- End date: 17th Sep 2019
- Sydney, Australia
EuroSciCon welcomes all to attend the 9th International Conference on Traditional Medicine 2019 which will be held from 16th-17th September 2019 Sydney, Australia. Traditional Medicine 2019 conference aims to gather leading educational scientists, researchers, people working in the field of Traditional, Chinese and Alternative Medicine and research students to exchange & share t...
Stepping On: A conference on stepping in dance across the British Isles and beyond
- Start date: 16th Nov 2019
- End date: 17th Nov 2019
- Cecil Sharp House
"The British Isles have a rich history of step dancing of many forms and in many contexts some of which are relatively well known and others largely lost. It is a history which goes back many centuries and links with traditions in other parts of the world. The aim of the conference is to further our knowledge and understanding, and to stimulate debate. The conference will be of inte...
An Introduction to Folk Song in England
- Date: 2nd Dec 2019
- Cecil Sharp House
"Internationally published folklorist Steve Roud presents with Laura Smyth, EFDSS’ Library and Archive Director, this popular introductory level day exploring the history of English folk song.
Topics will include: the many possible definitions of ‘folk’, the songs themselves, the singers, the places and times for singing, the music, cheap printed broadsides and other source...
