This thread keeps haunting me. Last summer I began working with my partner Byron on a number of songs collected by P.W. Joyce, George Petrie, and Edward Bunting. Byron on concertina, me singing.

Snowy Breasted Pearl was one of our favorites; we sang very "parlor style" keeping it as straight and pure as possible, without making it sound maudlin or sappy. We were just getting into the groove of how to get the sound just right when Byron died of a heart attack. All that work has stopped, and I have no interest in continuing it- but every time I come onto Mudcat, here's this thread, and the melody sticks with me for hours afterwards!
Thanks, I guess.

Allison