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Here you will find the widest range of books and recordings relating to East Anglian traditional music anywhere in the world!
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Books, CDs & Videos
Books
ENB25 The Brightest of Entertainers
ENB29 Before the Night Was Out
Videos
EFDSS VID1 Norfolk Stepdancer - Dick Hewitt
EFDSS VID2 Norfolk Dulcimer Player - Billy Bennington
Suffolk CDs
VTC2CD Songs Sung in Suffolk - Various
VTC3CD Comic Songs Sung in Suffolk - Various
VT130CD Who Owns the Game? - Various
VT136CD The Yellow Handkerchief - Phoebe Smith
VT154CD Good Hearted Fellows - Various
VTDC8CD Many a Good Horseman - Various
MTCD301-2 A Broadside - Bob Hart
MTCD303 Plenty of Thyme - Cyril Poacher
Norfolk CDs
VT152CD The Barford Angel - Billy Bennington
TSCD511 Now is the time for Fishing - Sam Larner
TSCD512D The Bonny Labouring Boy - Harry Cox
RCD1839 What will Become of England? - Harry Cox
TSCD514 A World Without Horses - Walter Pardon
MTCD305-6 Put a bit of powder on it, Father - Walter Pardon
East Anglia CDs
VTVS05/06 The Pigeon on the Gate
OH-1CD The Old Hat Concert Party
Compilations which include East Anglian singers and musicians
VTC6CD It was on a market day - One
VTC7CD It was on a market day - Two
VTVS07/08 I Thought I Was The Only One
CD-SDL405 Sea Songs & Shanties from the days of sail
MTCD311- 2 Up in the North, Down in the South
East Anglian singers and musicians on the 'Voice of the People' series of CDs
TSCD651 Come Let Us Buy The Licence
TSCD652 My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean
TSCD653 O'er his Grave the Grass Grew Green
TSCD654 Farewell, My Own Dear Native Land
TSCD655 Come All My Lads That Follow the Plough
TSCD656 Tonight I'll Make You My Bride
TSCD658 A Story I'm Just About to Tell
TSCD660 Who's That at my Bed Window?
TSCD661 My Father's the King of the Gypsies
TSCD662 We've Received Order to Sail
TSCD664 Troubles They Are But Few
TSCD665 As Me and My Love Sat Courting
TSCD667 It Fell on a Bonny Summer Day
TSCD668 To Catch a Fine Buck Was my Delight
TSCD670 There is a Man Upon the Farm
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'A Survey of Traditional Music Making in Mid-Suffolk' - John Howson
Detailed information and reminiscences from a lively musical tradition. Includes over 100 photos.
Veteran A4 - £5.95 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
or with the double CD
VTDC8CD - £20.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
This book focuses on songs noted down by Ralph Vaughan Williams who visited Southwold in Suffolk in 1910. He collected fifteen items from local fishermen particularly the Hurr family. The book contains scores for all the songs, plus lyrics & notes and also photographs and biographies of the singers. (2003, republished 2008)
EATMT A5 48pp - £6.75 incl UK P+P
ENB25 The Brightest of Entertainers
A history of dancing dolls, also known as jig dolls, by Rennie and Pat Pickles. The only serious book on this subject, with copious photographs and illustrations.
A5 56pp - £6.00 incl UK P+P
ENB29 Before the Night Was Out
Before the Night Was Out aims to shed light on the way in which traditional music in Suffolk and Norfolk has thrived and mutated during the twentieth century, as well as providing a resource for practising musicians.
It i
ncludes:- Polkas, hornpipes, jigs, schottisches and waltzes, including comparative versions, transcribed from recordings of more than twenty different melodeon players, fiddlers and dulcimer players
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Biographies, photographs and contextual information about the East Anglian
musical tradition, plus a comprehensive discography
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Fascinating details about the musical, social and geographical journeys these
tunes have made through time
- Guidance on how to interpret and play this music
For more details, click here.
EATMT A4 104pp - £18.95 incl UK P+P
Videos View Basket
EFDSS VID1 Norfolk Stepdancer - Dick Hewitt
One of the greatest East Anglian stepdancers ever. Here he shows how he dances to several different rhythms, accompanied by Percy Brown on melodeon.
£15.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
EFDSS VID2 Norfolk Dulcimer Player - Billy Bennington
Norfolk's dulcimer wizard showing just how good he was. Billy plays a selection of tunes using different techniques as well as performing a dancing doll.
£15.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
Suffolk CDs View Basket
‘Popular Folk Songs, Old Songs and Ballads sung by traditional singers from Suffolk’
Fred Whiting (Kenton) Ted Chaplin (Wingfield) Gordon Woods (Framsden) Charlie Hancy (Bungay) Geoff Ling (Blaxhall) Charlie Stringer (Wickham Skeith) Tom Smith (Thorpe Morieux) Tony Harvey (Tannington) Cyril Barber (Felsham) Harry Chambers (Dennington) Manny Aldous (Great Bricett)
Track list - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
VTC3CD Comic Songs Sung in Suffolk
‘Comic Songs, Music Hall Songs & Parodies sung by traditional singers from Suffolk’
Clifford Arbon (Monewden) Charlie Hancy (Bungay) Tom Smith (Thorpe Morieux) Ted Chaplin (Wingfield) Geoff Ling (Blaxhall) Wallie Syer (Bildeston) Tony Harvey (Tannington) Hubert Smith (Thorpe Morieux) Gordon Woods (Framsden) Manny Aldous (Great Bricett) Cyril Barber (Felsham) Hubert Freeman (Bedingfield).
Track list - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
‘Traditional songs and melodeon tunes from Central Suffolk’
Cecil Pearl (Claydon) Charlie Stringer (Wickham Skeith) Dolly Curtis (Dennington) Fred Whiting (Kenton) Cyril Barber (Felsham) Roy Last (Mendlesham Green)
Track list - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
VT136CD The Yellow Handkerchief - Phoebe Smith
Traditional songs & ballads from England’s greatest gypsy singer, who lived much of her life in Melton near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Track list - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
'Traditional singing and music from the Eel’s Foot’
Mrs Howard, Jumbo Brightwell, Fred Ginger, Jack Clark, Velvet Brightwell, Tom Goddard, Douglas Morling, Harry ‘Crutter’ Cook, Edgar Button, Albert ‘Diddy’ Cook, Alec Bloomfield, Jack ‘Dot’ Button.
£12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
'Traditional song, music hall songs and tunes from Suffolk recorded by Keith Summers'
Ted Laurence (Shelfhanger) Fred List (Framlingham) Jimmy Knights (Debach) Fred Went (Ufford) Alec Bloomfield (Benhall) Fred Whiting (Kenton) Billy List (Brundish) Dolly Curtis (Dennington) Charlie Whiting (Southolt) Ted Cobbin (Great Glenham) Jumbo Brightwell (Leitson) Geoff Ling (Blaxhall) Harkie Nesling (Bedfield) George Ling (Blaxhall) Albert Smith (Butley) Dinks Cooper (Walberswick) Cecil Fisk (Bedingfield) Font Whatling (Worlingworth)
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'Traditional Music Making from Mid-Suffolk recorded 1958 - 1993'
Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green) Roy Last (Stonham) Reg Pyett (Mendlesham) Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden) Jack Pearson (Wickham Skeith) Charlie Carver (Tostock) Charlie Griggs (Stowmarket) Tom Williams (Stowupland ) Emma Briggs (Thwaite) John Mitchell (Forward Green) Stan Steggles (Rattlesden) George Wade (Stowmarket) Ernie Lyas (Stowmarket) 'Gipsy' Charlie (Tostock) Clement Pearson (Wickham Skeith) Charlie Stringer (Wickham Skeith) Ernie Nunn (Wetheringsett) Doddy Thorndyke (Stowmarket) 'Lubidy' Rice (Finningham) Bill Smith (Walsham-le-Willows) Andy Austin (Woolpit) Jimmy Gladwell's Band (Stowmarket) 'Tinker' Parker (Mendlesham
Green) Bert Allen (Tostock) Glynn Griffiths (Cockfield) Hubert Smith (Thorpe Morieux) Tom Smith
(Thorpe Morieux)
This collection tracks John Howson's survey of traditional music making in Mid-Suffolk and includes not only his contemporary recordings, but also fascinating archival recordings made by the few other collectors who ventured into the area. In 1993 these recordings were released as a double cassette. The original recordings, some made as early as 1958, are now housed in the National Sound Archive at the British Library in London so that they are archived for the future. They have now also been digitally edited and enhanced, using modern technology, and are now available for the first time as a double CD which consists of two 39 track CDs each lasting 75 minutes, giving a total running time of two-and-a-half hours. It also comes with a new 32-page booklet, which includes biographies and photographs of each of the performers, as well as extensive notes about the songs and tunes.
Mid-Suffolk was almost virgin territory when this original survey was done in the mid 1980s, and a rich and diverse musical tradition, not unlike that of East Suffolk, was found. Memories and photographs of the musicians, singers, stepdancers and broom dancers are published in the book of the same name which can be found in the Books section above. Go to ENB3.
Track list - Double CD - £16.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
CD & Book (ENB3) - £20.99 Add to Basket
MTCD301-2 A Broadside - Bob Hart
46 tracks from recordings made by Rod Stradling and Bill Leader of this important Suffolk singer. Comes with a A5 booklet.
Track list - Double CDR - £16.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
MTCD303 Plenty of Thyme - Cyril Poacher
Compilation of recordings of the great Suffolk traditional singer from Blaxhall.
Track list - CDR - £12.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
Norfolk CDs View Basket
VT152CD The Barford Angel - Billy Bennington
'Norfolk Dulcimer and Dialect'
Re-release of the classic album on CD, which now includes several stories about Billy's exploits while travelling around the pubs of rural Norfolk, plus nine extra music tracks from the Topic LP 'English Country Music from East Anglia'.
Track list - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD511 Now is the time for Fishing - Sam Larner
Norfolk singer and raconteur, recorded by Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger in the late 1950s, including some fascinating dialogue about the songs and his life as a fisherman.
Track list - £12.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD512D The Bonny Labouring Boy - Harry Cox
A lavish production with extensive notes in a 'Voice of the People' style case. 54 tracks from one of Norfolk's finest singers.
Track list - Double CD - £16.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
RCD1839 'What will Become of England? - Harry Cox
46 tracks of Norfolk's greatest singer, featuring songs, reminiscences and melodeon and fiddle tunes, recorded by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy. There is little crossover between this and the Harry Cox CDs on the Topic label.
Track List - £14.49 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD514 A World Without Horses - Walter Pardon
Walter's songs lay undiscovered for many years, as they were only sung at home, until folklorists were alerted to his extensive repertoire. Here are some of Walter's finest recordings.
Track list - £12.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
MTCD305-6 Put a bit of powder on it, Father - Walter Pardon
A double album of the recordings not used on Walter Pardon's Topic CD.
Track List - Double CDR - £16.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
This is an essential CD for anyone interested in traditional music from the East Anglia. Recorded in Norfolk with Billy Cooper on dulcimer, Walter and Daisy Bulwer on fiddle and piano and Reg Hall on melodeon.
Track List - £12.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
East Anglia CDs View Basket
‘Traditional folk songs, music hall songs & tunes from Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex’
Percy Brown Reg Bacon Charlie Giddings Billy Cooper Walter & Daisy Bulwer
Hockey Feltwell George Green Billy Rash Alan Pate
Track list - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
VTVS05/06 The Pigeon on the Gate
'Melodeon Players from East Anglia'
Fred List Dolly Curtis Ben Youngs George Woolnough Charlie Plant Peter Plant Geoff Mayes Fred Pearce Clifford Arbon Cyril Barber Cecil Pearl Bert Mayes Font Whatling Oscar Woods Jen Newson George Green Mr Potter Monty Chapman Charlie Cutmore Harry De Caux Sonny Barber Harry Cox Charlie Buller George Craske John Woodrow Billy Patterson Bob Davies Percy Brown
The melodeon has, over the years, been more popular in East Anglia than anywhere else in England. 111 tracks of traditional melodeon playing from, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, including 17 tracks of Oscar Woods from Benhall in East Suffolk and 23 from the other legendary player Percy Brown from Aylsham in Norfolk.
Track List Double CD - £16.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
OH-1CD The Old Hat Concert Party
East Anglian music, song stepdancing recorded 'live' in a Suffolk pub with Katie Howson, Reg Reader, Adrian Turner, Font Whatling, Cyril Barber, Ted Chaplin, Tony Harvey, Des Miller, David Webb and Ted Stevens.
Track List - £12.99 incl UK P+P Add to Basket
Compilations which include East Anglian singers and musicians View Basket
'Traditional folk music, songs and dances from England'
Includes: Walter Pardon (Norfolk), Manny Aldous (Suffolk), Geoff Ling (Suffolk), Ted Quantrill (Suffolk), Fred Whiting (Suffolk), Tony Harvey (Suffolk) and Gordon Woods. (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
‘An anthology of traditional folk music from Rural England’
Includes: Billy Bennington (Norfolk) and Hubert Freeman (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
‘An anthology of traditional music from coastal England’
Includes: Walter Pardon (Norfolk), Bob Davis (Norfolk), Harold Smy (Suffolk), Ted Chaplin (Suffolk), John 'Dusso' Winter (Suffolk), Fred Whiting (Suffolk), Ted Quantrill (Suffolk) and Percy Brown & Dick Hewitt (Norfolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
VTC6CD It was on a market day - One
‘English traditional folk singers - One’
Includes: Fred Whiting (Suffolk) and Geoff Ling (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
VTC7CD It was on a market day - Two
‘English traditional folk singers - Two’
Includes:
Walter Pardon (Norfolk), Ted Chaplin (Suffolk) and Charlie Hancy (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
VTVS07/08 I Thought I Was The Only One
'Dulcimer Players from England'
Double cassette with two sides devoted to East Anglia with Walter Geary (South Repps), Mollie Whittaker (Wells-next-the-Sea), Jimmy Roger (Norwich), Billy Cooper (Hingham), Billy Bennington (Barford), Tommy Sparkes (Rattlesden), Charlie Philpott (Yoxford) and Reg Reader (Knodishall).
Tracks from East Anglia - (Double cassette only) £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
The Who's Who of English traditional singers and musicians, selected mainly from the Topic records back catalogue and includes: Walter Bulwer, Billy Cooper, Reg Hall, Daisy Bulwer, Mervyn Plunkett & Russell Wortley (Norfolk), Walter Pardon (Norfolk), Billy Bennington (Norfolk), Cyril Poacher (Suffolk), Phoebe Smith (Suffolk), Bob Hart (Suffolk) Oscar Woods (Suffolk), Harry Cox (Norfolk), Eely Whent (Suffolk), Bob Roberts (Suffolk), Sam Larner (Norfolk).
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
CD-SDL405 Sea Songs & Shanties from the days of sail
Recordings made by Peter Kennedy in the 1950s and 60s of various performers, including 14 tracks from Suffolk bargeman Bob Roberts and three from Norfolk's Harry Cox.
Tracks from East Anglia - £12.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
Up in the North, Down in the South
Tracks from East Anglia - (double CDR) £16.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
East Anglian singers and musicians on the 'Voice of the People' View Basket
TSCD651 Come Let Us Buy the Licence
An anthology of 'Songs of courtship & marriage'
Includes: Geoff Ling (Suffolk), Harry Cox (Norfolk) and Walter Pardon (Norfolk).
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD652 My Ship Shall Sail the Oceon
An anthology of 'Songs of tempest & sea battles, sailor lads & fishermen'
Includes:
Cyril Poacher (Suffolk),
Sam Larner (Norfolk), George Ling (Suffolk), Walter Pardon
(Norfolk), Harry Cox (Norfolk), Bob Hart (Suffolk) and Bob
Roberts (Suffolk).
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD653 O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green
An anthology of 'Tragic ballads'
Includes: Jumbo Brightwell (Suffolk) and Phoebe Smith (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD654 Farewell, my Own Native Land
Includes: Walter Pardon (Norfolk) and Cyril Poacher (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD655 Come All my Lads That Follow the Plough
An anthology of songs about 'The life of rural working men & women'
Includes:
Sam Larner (Norfolk), Bob Hart (Suffolk) and Hockey Feltwell (Norfolk)Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD656 Tonight I'll Make You My Bride
An anthology of 'Ballads of true & false lovers'
Includes:
Walter Pardon (Norfolk), Jimmy Knights (Suffolk), Cyril Poacher ( Suffolk) and Phoebe Smith (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD658 A Story I'm Just About to Tell
An anthology of songs about 'Local events & national issues'
Includes: Bob Hart (Suffolk) and Cyril Poacher (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
An anthology of 'Dance music of the south of England'
Includes: Percy Brown (Norfolk), Oscar Woods (Suffolk), Walter Bulwer (Norfolk), Font Whatling (Suffolk), Billy Cooper (Norfolk) and Fred Whiting (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD660 Who's That at my Bed Window?
An anthology of 'Songs of love & amorous encounters'
Includes: Bob Hart (Suffolk), Geoff Ling (Suffolk), Jumbo Brightwell (Suffolk), Phoebe Smith (Suffolk) and Walter Pardon ( Norfolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD661 My Father's the King of the Gypsies
An anthology of 'Music of English & Welsh travellers & gypsies'
Includes three tracks of Phoebe Smith (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD662 We've Received Orders to Sail
An anthology of songs of 'Jackie Tar at sea & on shore'
Includes: Jumbo Brightwell (Suffolk), Harry Cox (Norfolk), Sam Larner (Norfolk), Cyril Poacher (Suffolk), Bob Hart (Suffolk), Walter Bulwer (Norfolk) and George Ling (Suffolk).
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD664 Troubles They Are But Few
An anthology of 'Dance tunes & ditties'
Includes: Jumbo Brightwell (Suffolk), Walter Pardon (Norfolk), Percy Brown (Norfolk), Font Whatling & Wattie Wright (Suffolk) and Albert Smith
(Suffolk).
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD665 As Me and My Love Sat Courting
An anthology of 'Songs of love, courtship & marriage'
Includes two tracks from Walter Pardon (Norfolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD667 It Fell on a Bonny Summer Day
An anthology of 'Ballads'
Includes: Walter Pardon (Norfolk) and Harry Cox (Norfolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD668 To Catch a Fine Buck Was my Delight
An anthology of 'Songs of hunting & poaching'
Includes: Bob Roberts (Suffolk), Jimmy Knights (Suffolk) Walter Pardon (Norfolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
TSCD670 There is a Man Upon the Farm
An anthology of 'Working men & women in song'
Includes: Ted Laurence (Norfolk) and Jumbo Brightwell (Suffolk)
Tracks from East Anglia - £13.99 incl. UK P+P Add to Basket
Melodeon badge, designed by Karen Cater.
Plywood with pin fitting attached to rear.
£2.00 for 3, post-free in UK. Out of stock.
Stepdance postcard, designed by Bill Smith.
£1.50 for 5, post free in UK. Add to Basket
£5.00 for 20, post free in UK. Add to Basket
Tin whistles
Robert Clarke, the inventor of this instrument, was born and brought up in Coney Weston in Suffolk, hence our interest in the instrument!
(Excess stock from "Mouth Music" events at Traditional Music Day, 2009)
Generation
EATMTM3 Bb (one only) - £4.00 plus £1.50 p&p. Add to Basket
EATMTM4 F (one only) - £4.00 plus £1.50 p&p. Add to Basket
EATMTM5 D tabor pipe with 3 holes (3 only) - £4.00 plus £1.50 p&p. Add to Basket
Clarke's
EATMTM6 Meg (green plastic) in C (one only) - £3.00 + £1.50 p&p. Add to Basket
EATMTM7 Original (black-finished metal) in C (one only) - £8.00 + £1.50 p&p - usually £14.00. Add to Basket
EATMTM8 Book: The History of the Tin Whistle, by Norman Dannatt
94-page book containing original research on the history of this instrument, plus photographs and profiles of a number of players such as
Mary Bergin, Micho Russell and, amazingly, the author Arthur Ransome! £7.99 + £2.00 p&p.
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