If you're still reading this, can you tell us whether the project consists mostly of newly-written songs or whether there are many traditional examples from the Sharp collection.

Brian, the intention was that the songs should be newly-composed in the course of the week's residential. To quote the project website, www.CecilSharpProject.com,

On March 18th 2011, the eight artists gather together in Shropshire for a 7 day residential, with an artistic brief to create new works that have a 'resonance and relevance' to Cecil Sharp, and in particular his Appalachian travels and song collecting between 1915-1918.