Raise Your Banners - Sheffield

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners - Sheffield
From: bradfordian
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 07:26 AM

An excellent value CD --£5-- is available from RYB featuring:-

Roy Bailey - If they come in the morning
Atila the Stockbroker - Haider
Frankie Armstrong - The Millworker
Ray Hearne - rother sing a don song
Tom Robinson - That driving seat
Rebel Voices - We all sang bread and roses
Rob Johnson - Be reasonable
July MacNamara - Fly like an eagle
Alastair Hulett Siege on union street
Faith Petric - As long as the grass shall grow
Black Voices - In the distance
Leon Rossleson - It's just a song
Kath Tait - Bollocks, I've got too many lovers
Coope Boyes & Simpson - The ryhme of no-mans land
Holly Near - I aint afraid
Tommy Sands - Daughters ans sons
Sandra Kerr - We were there
Dick Gaughan - The workers song
Billy Bragg - The Internationale


Raise Your Banners CD
click on GO TO SHOP for CD

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners - Sheffield
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 06:35 PM

Hi Ian

As Dave says RYB is alive and well and living in Bradford - plans are well advanced for the next festival on the weekend of 25 - 27 Nov this year and it would be great to see you there. Please join up as a member to help us keep in touch.

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners - Sheffield
From: Ian Fyvie
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 01:48 PM

Thanks Dave.

I must have droppef off the mailing list. Have to say though that I've not heard it mentioned in any folk circles for 10 or so years. I'll check your web page again (last time was probably 8 years ago.....)

Ian

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners - Sheffield
From: GUEST,folkiedave
Date: 08 Jan 11 - 05:17 AM

Not sure where you have been Ian :-)

but it has carried on:

http://www.raiseyourbanners.org/

Subject: Raise Your Banners - Sheffield
From: Ian Fyvie
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:20 PM

Many will remember these political song weekends in the 1990s. I assume they came to an end when the UK Tory government gave way to the Blair era in 1997 (along with lots of foolish optimism etc.).

With austerity, cuts, mass redundancies once again the order of the day, I would imagine there will be a mushrooming of political songwriting and a new generation of folk genre performers.

Time to bring back Raise Your Banners? - and similar events elsewhere? - after all we're all in the suffering together (except the Bankers....)


Ian Fyvie

(I'm still singing the old songs... have to write some new ones....!)