Percy Grainger visited Gloucestershire in 1907-1909 and collected about 60+ songs. Many of these are on cylinder recordings and these can be heard at Cecil Sharp House or at the British Library Sound Archive. I am currently working on a project called "The Single Gloucester" to put songs collected in Gloucestershire on the web and have permission to transcribe the recordings (or to get them transcribed), but not to put the recordings themselves on the web as they are the remit of the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The Single Gloucester website should be up and running by about August 2015, with the transcriptions. A number of the songs that Grainger collected, transcribed by him from his cylinder recordings, can be found on line on the Full English project.

Apart from Grainger's Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire work, he also recorded a lot of shanties from singers at Bristol and these can be heard at the British Library or Cecil Sharp House.

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