Record

Performance TitleFolk Festival 1968
Performance Date16 February 1968
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersFestival Dancers and Players,
Cotswold Morris Dancers,
Chipping Campden Morris Men,
'Sumadija' Yugoslav Folklore Group,
Westminster Morris Men,
Members of the Cymdeithas,
Ddawns Werin Cymru,
Royal Earsdon Sword Dancers,
La Sabotee Sancerroise,
Tom Cronin,
Colin Fleming

Dancers and Massed Musicians from The Provinces,
Nan Fleming-Williams,
John Barber,
Anthony Bowers,
Alan Browning,
Julian Clapham,
Patrick Clement,
Monica Dewey,
Leigh Dyer,
Jack Farr,
David Fleming-Williams,
Dick Hammett,
Wyn Hart,
Alan Humberstone,
Frances Mon Jones,
Helen Robinson,
Denis Smith,
Adrian Stocks,
Suki Towb,
Brian Willcocks
Secondary PerformersPat Shaw, The Ranchers - musical arrangements
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands:
The ''B's'',
The Black Glove Band,
Blue Mountain Band,
The Boffins,
Essex District Band,
Farmer Ryall Band,
Greensleeves,
Hertfordshire District Band,
Liverpool Players,
Orange and Blue Band,
Pyrford Country Dance Band,
The Rythmics,
The Square Crows,
Suf-Folk Band,
Surrey Harvesters,
Thames Valley Country Dance Band,
Thursday Band,
Weston Country Dance Band,
The Weysiders,
Woodcote Country Dance Band,
The Spinners,
The Ranchers

Special Bands:
Chingford Country Dance Band,
The Journeymen,
The Kenton Ramblers,
McBain's Band,
The Southerners,
The Strawplaiters,
The Thamesiders Country Dance Band
ConductorsJonathan Cohen
Set ListOverture (Massed Bands),
Victoria and Albert (Suite of Country Dances of Victorian Times) - Queen Victoria Country Dance, The Royal Albert, La Tempete (Festival Dancers and Players),
Cotswold Morris Dancers (Chipping Campden Morris Men),
Canadian Capers (Three dances collected in Canada) - The Self (Newfoundland), Square Dance Figures (Ontario), The Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) (Dancers and Massed Musicians from the provinces),
Traditional Songs (The Spinners),
Dances from Yugoslavia ('Sumadija' Yugoslav Folklore Group),
Popular Favourites (Four Dances to tunes that were popular favourites of their day and age) - Greensleeves and Yellow Lace, Up with Aily, Double Lead Through, Arnold's Circle (Festival Dancers and Players),
Wyresdale Greensleeves Dance (Westminster Morris Men),
Noson Lawen (Welsh dances, songs and music) - Powell's Fancy, Hen Lanofer, Y Ddafod Gorniog, Song and Harp Solo, Dawns y glocsen (Members of the Cymdeithas Ddawns Werin Cymru, The Ranchers),
Rapper Sword Dance (Royal Earsdon Sword Dancers),
Dances from France (La Sabotee Sancerroise),
Seascape (A sequence of dances and songs with a nautical flavour) - The Female Saylor (1710), The Handsome Cabin Boy, A Sailor's Hornpipe, Flamborough Sword Dance, The Matelot (1767), Jacky Tarr (1816) (The Spinners,Tom Cronin, Colin Fleming and Festival Dancers and Players)
INTERVAL
'A Masque of May:'
Overture,
Padstow - 'The Night Song',
Minehead - Hobby Horse,
Helston - Early Morning Dance,
Bedfordshire - May Day Carols,
Nantgarw - Dawns Flodau (Floral Dance),
Helston - Hal-an-Tow,
Chipping Campden - Morris Dance,
Padstow - 'Old 'Oss-Day Song',
Impressions of an Elizabethan May Day - Morris Dance, Country Dance, Egg Dance, Maypole Dance,
Helston - Mid-day Dance,
Headington and Bledington - Morris Dances,
Abram - Circle Dance,
Wales - May Day School,
Caerphilly - Rali Twm Sion,
Castleton - Garland Dance,
Interlude from abroad,
Padstow - Meeting of Hobby Horses,
Helston - Evening Dance,
Finale - Country Dances
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1968/17)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1968/17Folk Festival 196816-17 February 1968
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iogarookik_RonFolk Festival 19684
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/13739Chipping Campden Morris Dancers; 1700s-; English morris side
DS/UK/9478Westminster Morris Men; 1952-; English morris side
DS/UK/7562The Royal Earsdon Dancers; fl 1800s-; English morris side
DS/UK/13349Fleming; Colin (fl 1960s-1970s); English morris dancer
DS/UK/11434Williams; Nan Fleming- (fl 1950s-1960s); British folk dancer, violinist
DS/UK/14654Williams; David Fleming- (fl 1960s-); British violinist, arranger, musical director
DS/UK/13192Jones; Frances Mon (fl 1950s-1960s); Welsh soprano, welsh harpist
DS/UK/12011Shaw; Patrick "Pat" Shuldham- (fl 1950s-1960s); British folk dancer, ethnomusicologist
DS/UK/9643The Ranchers (fl 1960s - 1970s)
DS/UK/13196McBain's Country Dance Band (fl 1960s)
DS/UK/786Cohen; Jonathan (fl 1960s-); British pianist, composer, musical director
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