The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127359   Message #2839974
Posted By: Emma B
15-Feb-10 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: Traditional?
Subject: RE: Traditional?
just taking a little by way

Belfast born Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937), folk song collector and arranger was also editor of Irish Folk Music magazine, music critic of the Daily Telegraph, and father of 'Spike' Hughes, British jazz musician, composer and music journalist.

Probably Hughes's best known song is his setting of Yeats's poem 'Down by the Salley Gardens'