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Thread #132636   Message #3002570
Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
08-Oct-10 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: Folk music - a sense of place?
Subject: RE: Folk music - a sense of place?
Leveller, Matt Seattle is indeed an excellent Border piper, scholar and tune-maker. His 'Lindisfarne' has been recorded by Kathryn Tickell and others. He has published an excellent set of books called Airs for Pairs, his own two-, three- and four-part arrangements of traditional tunes, and the definitive collection of tunes from the William Vickers collection of 1770 under the name The Great Northern Tune Book.

For me, the Copper Family's singing always conjures up the Sussex landscape: specifically the line of the Downs, chalk paths, short turf, flint walls and the sea never far away. Some of their songs mention the landscape, as in Shepherd of the Downs and The Innocent Hare:

'Our huntsman blows his joyful sound,
Tally ho, my boys, all over the Downs.'

Valmai (Lewes)