This is an amazing collection of photgraphs from The Living Tradition website via Peter Laban, above.


Photos from The Living Tradition

113 photographs I think. They are all more or less 'folk music' related although many a not bands as such, some are collections of people possing and some are individuals.

I guess a number of issues arrise:

1. We collect what we can find
2. Photographers of the 19C didn't go looking for country dance bands much - they probably concentrated on bigger public events.
3. People possing for photographs did some strange things.

My main reason for starting this thread was to try to get some idea of what the bands looked like that played some of the tunes that we play in country dance bands today.

Any thoughts

L in C#