Record

Performance TitleNational Festival of English Folk Dance and Song
Performance Date2 January 1932
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time20:15
Main PerformersErnest Potts - vocals,
Elsie Avril - violin
Secondary PerformersEFDS Demonstration Team,
Oxford and County Branch,
Hertfordshire Branch,
London Scottish Regiment Dancers,
West Surrey Branch,
Essex Branch
Orchestra or BandLondon Scottish Regiment Pipers
ConductorsRalph Vaughan Williams,
Arnold Foster
Set ListProcessional: 'The Furry Dance',
Country Dance: 'Christchurch Bells',
Country Dance: 'Gathering Peascods' (EFDS Demonstration Team),
Country Dances: 'Dargason',
Country Dances: 'If All The World Were Paper',
Country Dances: 'Circasian Circle',
Sword Dance: 'Newbiggin' (EFDS Demonstration Team),
Morris Dance: 'Lads A Bunchum',
Sea Chanteys: 'Billy Boy',
Sea Chanteys: 'Fire, Fire'(Ernest Potts),
Morris Dance: 'Morris Reel',
Voces Cantabras: 'Danza De Romancero',
Voces Cantabras: 'Danza De Ibio',
Country Dance: 'The Long-Eight' (Oxford and County Branch),
Manx Dances: 'Mylecharane's March (Cutting Off The Fiddler's Head),
Jig: 'Keep The Old Petticoat Warm',
Country Dance: 'The Geud Man of Ballangigh' (The Hertfordshire Branch),
Country Dances: 'Brighton Camp',
Country Dances: 'Broom, The Bonny, Bonny, Broom',
Highland Dances: 'Foursome Reel' (London Scottish Regiment Pipers and Dancers),
Highland Dances: 'Argyll Broadsword Dance' (London Scottish Regiment Pipers amd Dancers),
Processional,
Country Dance: 'The Ribbon Dance',
Morris Jig: 'Bacca Pipes',
Country Dance: 'Goddesses',
Country Dance: 'The Country Farmer' (West Surrey Branch),
Morris Dance: 'Jockie To The Fair' (Essex Branch),
Morris Dance: 'Blue-Eyed Stranger',
Voces Cantabras: 'Jota',
'Los Picayos De La Virgen Del Campo En Cabezon De La Sal',
Morris Dance: 'The Rose' (EFDS Demonstration Team),
Morris Dance: 'Step Back' (EFDS Demonstration Team),
Manx-Dirk Dance, arr. Arnold Foster,
Country Dance: 'The Wedding',
The Running Set: (EFDS Demonstration Team),
Country Dance: 'Sellenger's Round',
Singing Dance: 'Push The Business On',
Morris Processional: 'Green Garters'
Performance Notes'...The outstanding event of the festival will be the appearance for the first time in this country of the Voces Cantebras a group of peasant dancers and singers from Santander, Spain. Though this group is receiving hospitality from the English Folk Dance Society, they journey has been made possible by a grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Ballas Artes...'
(The Times, 1 January 1932)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1932/2),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1932/1)
Ticket Prices1s 6d-7s 6d
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1932/2National Festival of English Folk Dance and Song2 January 1932
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
AidabiolietipeaxNational Festival of English Folk Dance and Song1
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/288Williams; Ralph Vaughan (12 October 1872-26 August 1958); OM; English composer
DS/UK/1980Foster; Arnold (1898-1963); English composer, arranger
DS/UK/2391Potts; Ernest J (fl 1930s); English singing teacher, folk singer
DS/UK/2716London Scottish Regiment; Pipers and Drummers of the London Scottish; 1860-; British volunteer pipe band
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