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Subject: Tolpuddle Man From: GUEST,albert Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:08 AM With the Tolpuddle Festival starting this weekend in Dorset it is a good and timely moment to mention the superb song"Tolpuddle Man" by Graham Moore.Whenever I hear it it still stops me in my tracks! Albert |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Rasener Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:54 AM Graham Moore is one of my favourites and Graham and Gill Redmond were superb when they played at my club last year. Here is the link to some of Graham's songs that you can listen to, including Tolpuddle Man Graham Moore |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Cats at Work Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:24 AM I had the great honour of singing it many years ago at the Tolpuddle Union Rally before it became a music festival, at the grave side of James Hammet. Very emotional and hairs on the back of the neck stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Jul 07 - 11:38 AM I was present at its first ever 'public' performance. He wandered into the folk club and said 'I've had to write a song for some community play, what do you guys think?' Needless to say, we thought it was brilliant and the rest, as they say, is history. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Rasener Date: 10 Jul 07 - 12:40 PM Do you think Guest Albert is Graham LOL :-) |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: GUEST,nickr90 Date: 10 Jul 07 - 01:37 PM I remeber seeing a fantastic show - sort of folk opera - about The Tolpuddle Men in Wexford Arts Centre some years ago. I'm not sure if Graham was part of it I rember Vic Merriman and the same group later had a great show about World War 1 |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: GUEST,nickr90 Date: 10 Jul 07 - 01:38 PM Ooops just remembered Mick Ryan was another of the performers. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Rasener Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:01 PM Thats right, Graham and Mick worked together on that. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: GUEST,albert Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:47 PM Unfortunately I am not Graham Moore and the writer of Tolpuddle Man!! albert |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Cats Date: 10 Jul 07 - 05:04 PM I saw the production in the courthouse in Dorchester and was sitting in the jury box. When they turned and asked how do you find these men, guilty or not guilty, we could have changed history! Very moving as we had also been down into the cells to see where they had been imprisoned. You couldn't lie down in the cell and only had a very narrow boards to perch on. They couldn't sit either. I'll be behind my Union banner on Sunday all being well. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Jul 07 - 06:11 PM That's what started it all off nickr90... the Dorchester Community Play. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: GUEST,Mary Brennan Date: 11 Jul 07 - 05:13 AM Graham Moore and Mick Ryan wrote and performed the folk opera about the Tolpuddle Martyrs together. I think they worked on one or two other projects too. Then they stopped working together because of 'artistic differences' and both have continued writing folk operas. 'Tanks for the Memories' (about the village of Tyneham) was written by Mick. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: the one Date: 11 Jul 07 - 09:51 AM ONLY ONE MAN I KNOW MICK FROM BEVERLY , WHEN HE SINGS IT YOU ARE THERE. GREAT PERFORMER. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Geordie-Peorgie Date: 11 Jul 07 - 05:57 PM Why are ye shoutin' ?? |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Willa Date: 12 Jul 07 - 05:20 PM 'The one' means Ossonflags, and he's right. |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: Saro Date: 13 Jul 07 - 04:14 AM I was in the production at Wexford, directed by Vic Merriman, and we did another tour a couple of years later with Mick Ryan's show "A Day's Work". A bit traumatic for me as I had to watch my husband being "shot at dawn" during each performance. All great fun, and fantastic songs in both shows by Graham and Mick. Saro |
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Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Man From: GUEST,nickr90 Date: 16 Jul 07 - 01:51 PM Saro Congratulations on some of the best shows ever staged at the venue. I believe some of the cast stayed with a friend of ours called Marie O'Byrne. |
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