| Performance Title | The Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society |
| Performance Date | 9 January 1937 |
| Performance Day | Saturday |
| Performance Time | 14:30 |
| Main Performers | The Manx Team,
Leighton Stowell,
The English Team,
The French Team from Les Landes,
The Romanian Team from Bukovina,
Colchester Junior Morris Dancers,
Corston (Somerset) School,
Bridport (Dorset) Grammar School Team,
Whitby (Yorks) Singing Games Team,
Girls' Organizations, (Girl Guides, National Council of Girls' Clubs, The Girls Life Brigade, Girls Guildry),
Boys Organisation, (Boy Scouts, Rangers and Rovers Teams from East Ham, Newcastle and Stepney),
Swiss Cottage (School For The Blind) Folk Dance Club,
Women's Institute teams from Banstead, Eastcote, Edenbridge, East Sussex, Fetcham, Great Wakering, Ingatesstone, Midhurst, Newbold-on -Stour, Salford, Solihull, Southmoor and Tupsley)
National Union of Townswomen's Guilds from Bournemouth, Eastleigh, Ewell, New Malden, Stocton-on Tess,
Hermitage Training Home for Mentally Defective Girls, |
| Orchestra or Band | Miss E Avril,
John Fry,
Miss E Manly,
Miss N Butler,
Miss D Huxtable,
Miss J Welsford,
Norman Chapple,
Mr J J Bunney,
Anne Joseph,
Jean Layton,
Mrs Sugden,
Miss K Gill,
Mrs Cope,
Miss H Bidder,
Mr J Hatton,
Miss D Callard,
Miss L Rubin,
Mr L Hopkinson,
Miss R Saunders,
Miss Vera Dart,
Cedric Charpe,
Mr J Holmes,
Hon. Phyllis Russell,
Natalie Caine,
Margaret Eliot,
Mr C J Clarke,
Pauline Juler,
Mr S Downing,
Mr T Dickie,
Mr M Graydon,
Mr J Mason,
Mr A Wild,
Mr C Pemmell,
Mr B Ashby,
Mr A Ure,
Miss D Benbow |
| Conductors | Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Arnold Foster,
Imogen Holst |
| Set List | Overture: 'EFDS Medley', R Vaughan Williams,
'Sellenger's Round',
'The Beginning of the World',
'Maid In The Moon',
'Ribbon Dance',
'Mylecharane', (The Manx Team, Leighton Stowell),
Lancashire Morris Dance'Royton' (The English Team),
'Durham Reel', (The English Team),
'Norfolk Long Dance', (The English Team),
Children's Displays: 'Goddesses',
'Rodney', (Colchester June. Morris Dancers),
'Lilli Burlero', (Corston (Somerset) School),
'Flamborough Sword Dance', (Bridport (Dorset) Grammar School Team),
'If All The World Were Paper',
'Jenny Jones', (Corston (Somerset) School),
'When I Was A Young Girl', (Whitby (Yorks) Singing Games Team),
'Push The Business On',
'Tideswell',
'Shepherds Hey',
'Lumps of Plum Pudding',
'Headington Morris Reel',
'Merry Milkmaids', (Girls' Organizations),
'Haste To The Wedding' (Newcastle and London Rovers and Rangers),
'Kentucky Running Set' (Swiss Cottage (School For The Blind) Folk Dance Club),
'Newcastle' (Women's Organizations),
'We Won't Go Home Till Morning', (Girls' and Women's Organization),
The French Team
Ballet: 'Five And Twenty', Douglas Kennedy, Arnold Foster,
Ballet: 'The Magic Link', Douglas Kennedy, Arnold Foster,
'Circassian Circle' |
| Performance Notes | The Les Landes team from France consisted of special dancers on stilts with a bagpiper. The bagpipe was called a 'boha' and the bagpiper was named Justin Benquet, known as 'Jeanty' Benquet (1870-1957). Justin Benquet was the last traditional musician to play this instrument. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1937/2),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1937/2) |
| Ticket Prices | 1s 6d-7s 6d |
| URL | https://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/DYrDZrNDYfUGgG |