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Thread #116801   Message #2513531
Posted By: JohnB
12-Dec-08 - 10:42 AM
Thread Name: Sheffield carols (and others)
Subject: RE: Sheffield carols (and others)
Hi Folkiedave, PM me with your snail mail address and I will send you a copy of this years effort. We sang at the Brampton Folk Club, Friday night Coffee House series last Friday (I know there is supposed to be lot's of beer but they paid us to do it dry so we couldn't refuse and we did go to a local pub after)
I recorded it and have just got my first cut at the CD on the player right now.
The other thing I could do is convert them to MP3's and email them to you.
This recording is a lot better than the one you have.
If anyone in Canada is interested, we will be at the following places;
Dec 14th Winchester Arms Orangeville
Dec 21st Sheherds Crook Georgetown
Dec28th Golden Kiwi Cambridge
We start around 2.30pm with a few instrumentals, singing starts around 3.00 and goes till about 5.30-6.00
I really must make the "REAL" carolling some year.
Orange Peel Carolers is a web page where you can see some of us, I guess I took most of the pictures cos I'm not there.
Yes one of our team Grainne is from Ecclesfield, although she didn't start the caroling, she was involved with starting Orange Peel Morris which brought a sufficient impetus of singers together to make this happen over here.
I wnted to do it as a Millenium project but never got off the ground.
Cathy gave the eventual starting thrust when she returned from Ottawa one Christmas with a book called the Canadian Pub Caroller, by Shelley Posen. The book draws heavily on the Worral Blue Book.
We use a few non Sheffield songs and tunes as well to fill out our programme.
JohnB