This is the other item from Musical Traditions:

The Peter Kennedy Collection and Topic Records

As I hinted below, there was another piece of excellent news for lovers of traditional music due to be made public in 2007. Full details can be found on our Latest News page but, to my mind, the most important part is this:

    Topic Records has acquired the rights to the Peter Kennedy recordings and will be working towards releases of as much of the material as is commercially viable. This will obviously take some time but they hope that these releases will happen early in 2009 - Topic's 70th year.

My understanding is that Topic will be producing a Voice of the People, part 2 set, drawn mainly from the Peter Kennedy recordings. And if that's not exciting enough for you, I can also reveal that our own Musical Traditions Records will have access to the material not used for the new VotP set to produce a series of new CDs of the same type and to the same standards as our existing CD releases of traditional material.

After all the doom-laden predictions about the eventual fate of the Kennedy Collection, I think that this outcome has to be seen as the impossible dream come true. Profound thanks and congratulations to all concerned.

Rod Stradling - 30.10.07

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~ Becky in Tucson