The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49409   Message #745645
Posted By: greg stephens
10-Jul-02 - 05:14 AM
Thread Name: Who is Cecil Sharp?
Subject: RE: BS: Who is Cecil Sharpe?
There is a lot of reading to be done on C Sharp,too much. The single fact that you might enjoy most (well I dont know if its a fact but it's the snippet that's stuck in my mind):his Road to Damascus moment was hearing an old gardener singing "The seeds of love" to himself while working. Cecil was a posh bloke, and this was his first conscious exposure to folksong.He said to himself "That's it" and from then on hislife was spent chasing more of the same. Doubtless you, John, and all Mudcatters will have had some similar moment, when folk music first jumped out of some thicket and bit your leg. And life is never the same again.