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Reinhard Cellar Full of Folk (16) RE: Cellar Full of Folk 11 Jun 16


The tracklist of the new Anne Briggs EP is

A1 The Recruited Collier
A2 My Bonny Boy (i.e. your A Bower In My Breast)
B1 Polly Vaughan
B2 The Verdant Braes of Skreen

This is the announcement in the latest Fledg'ling newsletter:

"In the summer of 1966 Peter Kennedy recorded a series of 45 minute radio programmes for the BBC. Folk-Song Cellar was presented as 'an informal get-together' in a fictional 'folk club' hosted by Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor and over the 39 broadcast episodes featured over one hundred performers from Britain and Ireland. Billed as "from Nottinghamshire comes Anne Briggs to sing some of those unaccompanied songs she heard first from the gypsies"; Anne sang three songs during the launch episode of Folk-Song Cellar, broadcast on Saturday 16th August 1966. Remarkably these beautiful performances have survived for half a century."

Note that this also mentions only three songs. I wonder what the source of The Verdant Braes of Skreen is.


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