The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3662652
Posted By: TheSnail
22-Sep-14 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
I made note of the origins of the songs that our guests sang at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club on Saturday night -

Peter Bellamy
Ewan Maccoll
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Ewan Maccoll
Al Stewart
Kipling/Bellamy
Jim Mageean/Johnny Collins
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Richard Thompson
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Ewan Maccoll
Bob Copper/Bellamy
James Grafton Rogers

I think it may be the first time ever that I have heard anybody sing The First Time Ever in a folk club.

Here they are singing the Jim Mageean/Johnny Collins song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqWM39RVvrM.

Not at the club but here is a selection from one of the sessions at last year's Lewes Folk Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T6exQw-Xyg. The two women dancing at the beginning are settled travelers. If you watch carefully, you may see two guitarists near the end.