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Thread #131492   Message #2968042
Posted By: Anne Lister
18-Aug-10 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: School:What did you learn about Folk?
Subject: RE: School:What did you learn about Folk?
I was lucky. Quite a lot in primary school (Singing Together) and then at school here in Wales we had the New National Song Book (which had a lot of folk songs in it) as well as another song book with a different selection. We had an annual Eisteddfod to encourage us to sing, write poetry and all that and we started a school folk club (jointly with the neighbouring boys' school) when I reached the sixth form. It was enough to get me interested. Then when I saw the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and then the Watersons in concert it enabled me to get a wider picture still.