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In the first of four programmes,
Northumbrian folk star
Kathryn Tickell introduces music recorded at the 39th
International Festival of Folk Arts at Sidmouth.
This week: the House Band
- Ged Foley on guitar and Northumbrian pipes, Chris Parkinson on melodeon, synthesiser and harmonica, and John Skelton on flute, whistle, bombarde and bodran.
Producer Stuart Hobday

Contributors

Introduces:
Kathryn Tickell
Unknown:
Chris Parkinson
Unknown:
John Skelton
Producer:
Stuart Hobday

The third of six programmes in which
Georgina Boyes looks at the history of folk song collecting. She concentrates on two of the most famous English folk songs. Brigg Fair was collected by Percy Grainger in 1908 and later adapted into an orchestral rhapsody by Frederick Delius , while other folk songs collected at the time were arranged by Grainger into A
Lincolnshire Posy. Also a history of Scarborough Fair. Producer David Corser

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgina Boyes
Unknown:
Percy Grainger
Unknown:
Frederick Delius
Producer:
David Corser

The Organist Entertains Music, news and views from the popular organ and keyboard world. Tonight, John Leeming reviews a new CD of reissued recordings made in the early 1930s by Sidney Torch at the organ of the Regal, Marble Arch, London.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Leeming

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