Folklife Quarterly FQ 40: Jan 2014 Folklife Quarterly, web version | Page 41

Folklife Quarterly: FT pages, Jan 2014, p39 FT Jan. 2014 Header: our logo © Chris Beaumont; other illustrations The Roots Of Welsh Border Morris (Dave Jones) © Annie Jones. Folklife Traditions • Traddodiadau Bywyd Gwerin FQ’s FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: the FT pages ● Articles ‘Beating the Bounds’ by Roy & Lesley Adkins p41 ‘Ballad Singers of the Border’: J. Kyrle Fletcher, by Roy Palmer p42-43 ● Song ‘The Life of a Man’ from Charles Menteith, with notes p44 ● Publications News: Musical Traditions Records p39 Publications p44 Not online, print only Musical Traditions Internet Magazine, & MT Records Musical Traditions Internet Magazine (www.mustrad.org. uk) is a multi-award winning, Stroud based, web publication dedicated to the interest in traditional music and song the world over. As well as the magazine, Musical Traditions has its own records company (www.mtrecords.co.uk) which produces CDs of important music and song which might never achieve a commercial publication, for the small audience which appreciates it. Rather than selling Catalogue Samplers, as I have done in the past, I decided to set up a special Page in the Magazine and on the MT Records website, with one track from almost every CD we’ve produced available as playable MP3 files. There are a total of 82 complete tracks (no 30 second snips here!). Five have been omitted: I’ve only included one from the Pop Maynard double (MTCD401-2) because it was only just a double anyway, and contained a number of alternative recordings of the same songs; and none from WEST MIDLANDS’ BALLADS ISBN 978 0 96114 858 288pp 23cms x 30cms 1.5cms thick This book contains a superb collection of 171 songs, from Mediaeval times to the present day, that have either words or tunes from the local auralfolk tradition or relate to people or places of historical interest within the region, or were written by authors and composers resident in the area which includes Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcester, Herefordshire and the Birmingham - Black Country conurbation. The ballads are beautifully illustrated with a wide variety of carefully chosen engravings and photographs, and each has a note and full details of the source of each piece. available from: Eve Raven telephone [phone] e-mail [email protected] www.michaelravenpublications.com PRICE £18.00 ● News from Folklife Societies: Talks, Conferences, & Exhibitions p43 ~ An Introduction to the Song Collectors Collective p45 ● Publications News: Musical Traditions Records p39 ● Seasonal Local Celebrations: • A list, with photos, for this quarter, by Doc Rowe p46 • Note "Exmoor Traditions" by R James Parham p46 • Note “Hurling the Silver Ball” by Chris Ridley p46 ● 1-line Summary Listings (repeated every issue): p40 the Martin Carthy double (MTCD403-4) because it was a special charity project and is no longer available for contractual reasons. And, obviously, the two published Samplers don’t count. As and when new releases appear, sample tracks can easily be added to the top of the list. This should actually happen before too long, as ou