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Performance TitleThe Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Performance Date9 January 1937
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time20:15
Main PerformersWhitby (Yorks) Singing Games Team,
English Team,
Roumanian Team from Bukovina,
French Dancers from Les Landes
Boxgrove Tipteers,
North Skelton (Yorks) Traditional Team,
The Manx Team

Leighton Stowell - speaker
Orchestra or BandMiss 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
ConductorsDr Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Arnold Foster,
Imogen Holst
Set ListOverture: 'EFDS Medley', RVaughan Williams,
'Sellenger's Round',
'The Beginning of the World',
'Maid In The Moon',
'Ribbon Dance',
'When I Was A Young Girl' (Whitby (Yorks) Singing Games Team),
Lancashire Morris Dance: 'Royton' (The English Team),
'The Moon Shone Bright' (The Boxgrove Tipteers),
'Bowl' (The Boxgrove Tipteers),
'The Girl I Left Behind Me' (The Boxgrove Tipteers),
'Godesses',
'Step Stately' (The English Team),
'Argeers' (The English Team),
'Norfolk Long Dance' (The English Team),
'Tideswell',
'Shepherds Hey',
'Lumps of Plum Pudding',
'Headington Morris Reel',
The French Team
'Sage Leaf',
'The Whiteboys Mummers' Play' (The Manx Team, Leighton Stowell),
Ballet: 'Five And Twenty' (Douglas Kennedy, Arnold Foster),
Ballet: 'The Magic Link' (Douglas Kennedy, Arnold Foster),
'Circassian Circle'
Performance NotesThe Les Landes team from France consisited 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 MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1937/2),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1937/2)
Ticket Prices1s 6d-7s 6d
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1937/2The Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society9 January 1937
RAHE/1/1937/2Silver Jubilee Festival of English Folk Dance and Song9 January 1937
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
CbonakufifegThe Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/315English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS); 1932-; English folk society
DS/UK/288Williams; Ralph Vaughan (12 October 1872-26 August 1958); OM; English composer
DS/UK/1980Foster; Arnold (1898-1963); English composer, arranger
DS/UK/2789Holst; Imogen Clare (1907-1984); CBE; British composer, conductor
DS/UK/1573Avril; Elsie (6 October 1889-21 August 1977); Australian-born English folk violinist
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