SILVER PRIZE BAND
Conductor, C. BENNETT
IFOR HUGHES (bass-baritone)
From Bethlehem Congregationa'
Church Hall, Rhos, Wrexham
' Twelfthtide '
A composite sound picture of some of the customs still surviving in the West Country during the Twelve Days of Christmas, gathered by the BBC Mobile Recording Unit and including:
Christmas Morning, Ottery St. Mary, The Bilbye Handbell Ringers, Chew Stoke; Carols from Somerset, Dorset, and Cornwall; and performances, in whole or in part, of The Madron Guise Dancing; The Marshfield 'Paper Boys' Mumming Play ; The Battle of Waterloo,' by the Dorchester Mummers; and ' Crimea ' by the Evershot Mummers
An introduction to a series of talks and discussions by the Editor, PERCY FORD. The material has been collected in South Wales by groups of researchers who will themselves take part.
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