London Folk Song Cellar.

We are near the end of a 40-year project to recover and restore recordings of London Folk Song Cellar from the 1960s. Many of our recordings have come from transcription discs. But we also have off-air recordings from New Zealand, USA, BFBS - Germany, Kuwait, etc., and Australia.

The LFSC was a fictitious folk club based in the Cellar Bar (and adjacent room Trefusis) at Cecil Sharp House. It was run by Peter Kennedy of the EFDSS. Recording sessions took place in blocks of 6 weeks at a time in 1966 and 1967, with a specially invited audience. The shows were designed to sound like typical coffee bar folk clubs of that era. Comperes were Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor.

There were 39 episodes in all, each 43 mins long. These were distributed around the world by BBC Transcription Services on acetate discs. We are still looking for episodes 28, 31 and 39.

The final files can be accessed from:

https://ulozto.net/hledej?q=lfsc - download for free.

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