G'day Joe Offer,

Re your:Date: 11 Aug 10 - 01:04 PM
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Sydney Carter was a Quaker and his best known hymn is probably Lord of the Dance ..."

Sydney Carter was raised Anglican ... and was a "Charity Boy" at a London Anglican School. He described the experience of going to school wearing the prescribed blue cloak, with 'gold' trim as being a "proper training for an English eccentric".

I think he described himself as a "free-wheeling Christian" when I met him and photographed his performance in Sydney (post Easter 1972 - after he performed at our National Folk Festival, in Canberra that year).

Many of my Quaker friends enthusiastically sing a number of his songs that refer to the Quakers ... but he was no more of their congregation than of any other in humanity.

Regards,

Bob