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Notts Alliance

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The Love You Leave Behind. This live album of Sid’s memorial concert is now on release. All proceeds from the recording will go to. See below for totals raised. Album includes performances by:. Ralph Jordan and Keith Kendrick. Currently the CD has raised £2,163 for Amnesty. Sid's work colleagues from Leicester Trading Standards raised £1,325 for Amnesty through a sponsored walk. Thanks to everyone who contributed, bought a record, did the walk or sponsored people.

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Notts Alliance

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Click on a CD to view the contents and purchase a copy. To preview songs from the CDs go to YouTube. Photos by Andy Basford: www.ursamajor.co.uk.

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Notts Alliance

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We are an unaccompanied harmony group with material from the folk tradition and thereabouts who have gained a reputation for tight and inventive harmony singing. Our repertoire includes arrangements of songs from some of the best of today’s songwriters including Richard Thompson, Pete Morton, Maggie Holland as well as a good helping of traditional material. Regulars at many clubs and festivals, we released "Out of the Darkness" in 1997 to enthusiastic reviews. While Dave Sutherland writing in the Tigerfo...

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Notts Alliance

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Notts Alliance was originally the name of the group running the Nottingham Tradional Music Club throughout the 70s and 80s. The early residents produced an LP in 1972 called "The Cheerful Orn". None of the current members of Notts Alliance appeared in that recording. Members of the Group. After the death of Sid in January 2005 the balance of the group was. Altered, with Chris mainly taking the bass line while Stephen and Phil continued with top line and tune respectively. Recently we have experimente...

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Notts Alliance

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From Baz Parkes, English Dance and Song,. On the Doorstep is an object lesson in how a recording of unaccompanied singing should sound. There’s a nice mixture of traditional and contemporary songs, both humorous and serious, and the harmonies are stunning. Each member of the trio has a strong individual voice, and these blend with the ease and assurity that long-standing singing together brings. No shred of contempt in this familiarity. From Bob Taberner, Folk Monthly Dec 13. But that’s just nit pi...

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Notts Alliance

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Bookings/Floor spots in the near future :. 5th Feb 2016 - Black Diamond Folk Club. 7th March 2016 - Warwick Folk Club. 20th April 2016 - Rowington Folk Club. 15th July 2016 - Bollington Folk Club. 20th - 26th August Whitby Folk Festival. 12th October 2016 - Bedworth Folk Club. 11th November 2016 - Potteries Folk Club. For bookings contact :. Phil Hardcastle 0793 534 1845 or email phil.hardcastle@gmail.com. Chris Orme : email chrisjorme@yahoo.co.uk. Ecent comments about our c lub performances.

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Notts Alliance

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Collected by Jim Eldon from travellers at Appleby Horse Fair. A Ballad for Katherine of Aragon. A poem by Charles Causley. Tune by Alex Atterson. Malt is Come Down. Started life as a round, published in Thomas Ravenscroft’s Deuteromelia in 1609. Additional verses by Gregg Butler of Strawhead. The first folk song noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams, from Charles Pottipher. One of the finest of English folk songs. Dave Goulder’s wonderful song, updated to take account of climate change. Putting out the Dustbin.

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Notts Alliance

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English Dance and Song review. To Althea, from Prison. Poem by Lovelace set to music by Swarbrick. Al Bowlly’s in Heaven. Across the Blue Mountain/I Was a Young Man. 2 songs of marital dysfunction, American and English. Frida Kahlo’s Visit to the Taybridge Bar. Michael Marra's wonderful vision of Frida Kahlo coming back for a wee dram. Traditional, contains one of the most depressing verses in folk song. A Tree Song (Oak and Ash and Thorn). The Wife of the Soldier. From Kurt Weil, Berthold Brecht.

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Derby Heritage Traditional Music Club - Links

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Mumpers meets on the first and third Sunday of every month (with a summer break) at the Meadows Inn, Chequers Road, Derby, within a minute of the Pentagon Island on the A52. Fridays-8.30pm at the Old Cottage Tavern, 36 Byrkley Street, Burton on Trent, Staffs. DE14 2EG. Tigerfolk Traditional Folk Club. Meets on the First Sunday of every month at The Stumble Inn, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, NG10 1BD at 7.30pm. Great nights of storytelling in Derby at the Voice Box, Forman Street, Derby.