Folk clubs - what is being sung

Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:20 PM

SilverSmith at Maidenhead on Thursday :-
As I Roved Out (Ex Planxty)
A Roving on a Winters Night Ex Doc Watson)
Annie Munro (Jez Lowe)
The House Carpenter (trad American- NO Supernatural)
Bangum (Trad American- NO Supernatural)
Lakes Of Ponchartrain
Arthur McBride (Irish)
La Malaguena (Mexican)
Spanish Ladies Medley (Mostly Swarbrick Carthy)
Little Beggarman (Irish)
Barbara Allen (Trad American)
Jackaroe (American Jacky Munroe !)
Come All Ye fair and Tender Maidens
Devils Nine Questions
Devil and the Farmers Wife
Black Jack Davey
Coshieville(Scottish)
The Parting Glass
Roseville fair (Bill Staines)

And the prevalence of American (Particularly Virginian orientated) is because my Vocalist partner is from Richmond VA !

Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
From: Rapunzel
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 06:47 PM

This week I sang Earl Richard (unaccompanied, traditional); Marco Polo (with guitar, by Jane Siberry); and Why Walk When You Can Fly (unaccompanied, by Mary Chapin Carpenter). A reasonable mix I thought.

Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
From: GUEST,heather
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 05:11 PM

From Glynneath Acoustic Group on an evening themed 'Song of the Earth/Alexander Cordell' last Friday in the Valley Folk Club Pontardawe Wales.Some of these are old, some newer, some learned and some homemade.

Song of the Earth read extract
Walking to Merthyr Tydfil in the moonlight long ago
Walking Boss
Suo Gan
The Gates of Cardiff Gaol
Bells of Rhymney
Farmer's Boy
Here is Love and 1904 Revival description
Nine Pound Hammer
Song of the earth extract
Tareni Flood
Last train from Poor Valley
Dark as a Dungeon
Keep that wheel a turning
Aberdulais
Extarct from Song of the Earth
Hard Times
Green green Grass of Home
The town of Aberdare
Extract from Story from Sharie's Home
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Cotton Mill Colic
The Ballad of Ben Russ
Roll down the line
Skewen Main
Song of the Deportees
A working man I am
Calon La

Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
From: Gene Burton
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:27 PM

At my last paid gig (at the Red Lion FC, Birmingham a couple of weeks ago, supporting Ashley Hutchings and co), I played 13 songs in all. 9 of my own, all with guitar. One Trad with guitar (Dink's Song). Two Trad unaccompanied (Black Waterside and Queen of Hearts) and, er, Rock of Ages (with silly fast bluegrass-ish guitar accompaniment). I have been described by some (mostly by my younger listeners, interestingly) as a folksinger.

Last night I went to a young person's open mic night in Brum town centre, did 4 songs...2 of my own, a Dylan (Tangled Up in Blue), and Sally Free and Easy (unaccompanied). Unaccompanied English folk songs generally go down really well at these kind of nights...people really seem to respond to the power of the unadorned human voice, and by the melodic strengths of the songs (though it does peeve me a little that so many people unfamiliar with the tradition tend to assume they're all Irish...but that's probably a whole new thread topic!)

Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
From: Saro
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 03:44 PM

Among the songs sung last night were
Banks of Sweet Primroses (trad)
Amazing Grace
Pleasant and Delightful (trad)
a French traditional song about military service (trad)
Bay of Fundy (Bok)
The Leaves in the Woodland (Bellamy)
Low Down in the Broom (trad)
a poem by Thomas Hardy
Ae Fond Kiss (Burns)
The Unquiet grave (trad)
Tall Ships (knightley)
Lavender's Blue

plus others the names of which I don't know (or memory fails me!). Still, it is a start...
Saro

Subject: Folk clubs - what is being sung
From: GUEST,Bert
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 03:27 PM

An offshoot from the "What is a folksong" thread.

Let's start with - What are us folkies actually singing?

So if you run or are a member of a folk club, please take the time to list here what songs were sung at your last meeting.

OR - If you consider yourself to be a folk singer, What songs are you currently singing?

Then we'll at least know what the general consensus is regarding what we consder to be folk songs.