CB

We don't do grants! We apply for them. Barbara is right. Core dance has been funded by Sport England but this will not be for much longer. There is no equivalent for song although the Lottery does fund individual song projects rather than core funding.

We haven't spent anything directly on English folk dance or English folk song (not sure what you mean anyway).


We are running a young persons Song Writing Competition right now which currently has 28 entries. Prize is £100 plus a life membership to the Society. finals are at Cheltenham Festival.

We have published several English song books in the last couple of years.

Traveller's Joy Book and CD
Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005
Compiled by Mike Yates; musical transcriptions by Elaine Bradtke; editorial assistance by David Atkinson and Malcolm Taylor; audio recordings by Mike Yates.

Dear Companion: Appalachian Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection. That's English in the sense that the Appalachians is reckoned by some to be a great repository of English song.

Folk Song: Tradition, Revival and Re-creation. (Research based)

Classic English Folk Songs (formerly Penguin Book of English Folk Songs - newly annotated by Malcolm Douglas)

Still Growing: English Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection

We are currently bidding for money for a 5 year song project called Take Six. Hopefully we'll be successful.

There are several other song projects on the drawing board.

On the dance side we have done a couple of dance CDs - including The Bismarcks - and republished the Community Dance Manuals. Not much for a "dance obsessed society" as we have been described in the past.

What job?