Record

Performance TitleEnglish Folk Dance and Song Society Festival
Performance Date10 January 1953
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLoftus Sword Dancers,
Boys and Girls from The Secondary Modern School, Dingle Vale, Liverpool
Ravensbourne Morris Men,
Chagford Step Dancers,
Manley Morris Dancers,
District Dancers,
The Festival Company

Jean Ritchie - vocal,
James McKay,
Peter Kennedy,
Ioan Jenkins - fiddles,
Arthur Marshall - melodeon,
Frank McPeake,
Francis McPeake - uillean pipes,
J W Den Hollander - accordion,
Bob Cann - melodeon,
William Kimber,
Joe Whiddett,
Caleb Walker,
Fred Kilroy - concertinas,
Joe Clarke - drum,
Elsie Avril - violin
Orchestra or BandFolk Dance Band,
Square Dance Band,
Hanwell Silver Band,
Festival Bands
ConductorsGeorge Thompson
Set ListThe Abram Circle Dance (Hanwell Silver Band, Alan Smith, EFDSS London Members),
Morris Dances - Shooting, Gallant Hussar (Kennedy, Jenkins, EFDSS Demonstration Team),
Country Dances - The Triumph (England), The Road To California (USA) (Folk Dance Band, Fleming-Williams),
Yorkshire Sword Dance (Loftus Sword Dancers, Marshall),
Country Dances - Morpeth Rant, Cumberland Square Dance (Folk Dance Band, Secondary Modern School),
Folk Songs - 'Will You Go, Lassie,Go?' (Frank McPeake), 'The Coulin' (Slow Air) (Francis McPeake), 'Monaghan Fair' (Frank McPeake),
Morris Dances - Shepherds Hey, Beaux of London City (Adderbury) (Whiddett, Ravensbourne Morris Men),
Provinciale Rei, Kleppermars (Folkloregroep "Medioburgum'' (Middelburg), Den Hollander),
Country Dances - Virginia Reel, Sicilian Circle (Folk Dance Band, Fleming-Williams, Tams from the EFDSS Districts),
Folk Songs - 'The Cuckoo', 'The Cherry Tree Carol', 'Old Betty Larkin' (Ritchie),
Devonshire Step Dancing (Chagford Step Dancers, Bob Cann),
Morris Dance (Manley Morris Dancers, Walker, Kilroy, McDermott, Clarke)
INTERVAL
The Padstow Hobby Horse and Mayers (Bate, Chainey, Jasper),
The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (EFDSS, Avril),
Horlepijp, Patertje (Folkloregroep ''Medioburgum" (Middelburg), Den Hollander),
A Suite of Country Dances - Gathering Peascods (The English Dancing Master) (Douglas Kennedy), Parson's Farewell, Nonesuch, Grimstock, arr. Arnold Foster and Elsie Avril ( EFDSS Demonstration Team),
Hunt The Squirrel, Double Set Back (The Headington Morris Dancers, William Kimber),
American Square Dancing (Square Dance Band, Fleming-Williams, Douglas Kennedy),
The Royal Earsdon Sword Dancers (James McKay),
Finale - La Russe (District Dancers, Hanwell Silver Band), Circassian Circle (Festival Company, Hanwell Silver Band),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesOriginal photographs are held by Mirrorpix.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1953/2)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/2The English Folk Dance and Song Society Festival9-10 January 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ealaxosaix_BcfEnglish Folk Dance and Song Society Festival2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/315English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS); 1932-; English folk society
DS/UK/1573Avril; Elsie (6 October 1889-21 August 1977); Australian-born English folk violinist
DS/UK/1572Kimber; William 'Merry' (1872-1961); English concertina player, Morris dancer
DS/UK/8655The Ravensbourne Morris Men (1947-)
DS/UK/8646Ritchie; Jean (1922-); American folk singer, songwriter, Appalachian dulcimer player
DS/UK/8652McPeake; Francis J (1885-1971); Northern Irish uilleann piper
DS/UK/8653McPeake II; Francis "Frank" (1917-1986); Northern Irish uilleann piper
DS/UK/8648Cann; Robert Frederick John "Bob" (1916-1990); English melodeon player, step-dancer
DS/UK/8651Walker; Caleb (1907-); British concertina player
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