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Sovay
Sovay is a traditional English folk song () about a young woman who dresses and arms herself as a highwayman in order to test her suitor. In disguise she robs her suitor of nearly all his possessions, but even under threat of death he refuses to give up the gold ring given by Sovay, thus proving his devotion. Sovay subsequently confesses the ruse to her lover and returns his various possessions, admonishing him only that had he indeed given up the ring, she would have killed him. The name 'Sovay' is probably a corruption of 'Sophie' or 'Sylvie' – both of which appear instead in some versions of the song. History The Bodleian Library has a printed version called "Sylvia's Request and William's Denial" dated to 1877. Sabine Baring-Gould collected a song called "Lady Turned Highwayman" ("Saucy Sally on one day") in Devon in 1890. In 1903 Cecil Sharp collected a version which he published in "Folk Songs From Somerset" (1905). The wikipedia article "Highwayman" says that the la ...
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Bella Hardy
Bella Hardy (born 24 May 1984) is an English contemporary folk musician, singer and songwriter from Edale, Derbyshire, England, who performs a combination of traditional and self-penned material. She was named Folk Singer of the Year at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, having previously won the award for Best Original Song in 2012 for "The Herring Girl". Education Hardy attended Edale CE Primary School and Hope Valley College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from York St John University in 2005 and a Master of Music degree from the University of Newcastle in 2007. She was named the inaugural "Alum of the Year" by York St John University in 2009. Career Bella Hardy is from Edale in Derbyshire's Dark Peak where there is an abundance of communal song. Born into a family of singers, Hardy began singing locally at an early age. Having played the fiddle a small amount at school, she attended a Folkworks Youth Summer School in Durham aged 13. Motivated by t ...
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Celia Rees
Celia Rees (born 17 June 1949) is an English author. Celia Rees was born in Solihull, West Midlands and attended Tudor Grange Grammar School for Girls. She studied History and Politics at Warwick University and has a PGCE and a master's degree in Education from Birmingham University. She became a teacher after leaving university and taught English in comprehensive schools in Coventry for sixteen years and this is when she began to write. Her intention was to ‘write for teenagers, books that they would want to read, almost adult in style and content.’ She left teaching in 1989. After working part-time in Further Education and as an Open Studies Lecturer for Warwick University, she became a full-time writer in 1997. Celia is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation, is a member of the Society of Authors, and has been Chair of the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group. She is a member of the Scattered Authors Society and a Fellow of the English Association. Celia liv ...
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Andrew Bird
Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Since 1996, he has released 16 studio albums, as well as several live albums and EPs, spanning various genres including swing music, indie rock, and folk music. He is primarily known for his unique style of violin playing, accompanied by loop and effect pedals, whistling, and voice. In the 1990s, he sang and played violin in several jazz ensembles, including Squirrel Nut Zippers and Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six. He went on to start his own swing ensemble, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, which released three albums between 1998 and 2001. ''Weather Systems'' (2003) was his first solo album after Bowl of Fire disbandment, and it marked a departure from jazz music into indie music. Bird's 2019 album ''My Finest Work Yet'' was nominated for "Best Folk Album" at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Beyond his own record releases, he has collaborated with various artists, including The Ha ...
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Sovay (Andrew Bird Song)
''Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs'' is the third album of Andrew Bird's career post- Bowl of Fire, released in 2005, following his '' Weather Systems'' in 2003. The album art, along with track illustrations in the accompanying booklet were drawn by Jay Ryan. Bird expanded on his earlier work on ''Weather Systems''; the song "Skin Is, My" is an outgrowth of his earlier song "Skin". Reception "Fake Palindromes" was listed as the 331st best song of the 2000s by the music website '' Pitchfork''. ''Pitchfork'' also placed the album at number 181 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. The album has sold 80,000 copies in the United States by November 2008. The album was rereleased in February 2017. Track listing Other appearances * Tracks 3, 5, and 14 are found on ''Fingerlings 3''. Personnel *Andrew Birdvocals, guitar, violin, glockenspiel, whistles *David Boucherproduction *Kevin O'Donnelldrums, percussion, beats *Nora O'Connor Nora O’Connor (born ...
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Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
''Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs'' is the third album of Andrew Bird's career post- Bowl of Fire, released in 2005, following his '' Weather Systems'' in 2003. The album art, along with track illustrations in the accompanying booklet were drawn by Jay Ryan. Bird expanded on his earlier work on ''Weather Systems''; the song "Skin Is, My" is an outgrowth of his earlier song "Skin". Reception "Fake Palindromes" was listed as the 331st best song of the 2000s by the music website '' Pitchfork''. ''Pitchfork'' also placed the album at number 181 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. The album has sold 80,000 copies in the United States by November 2008. The album was rereleased in February 2017. Track listing Other appearances * Tracks 3, 5, and 14 are found on ''Fingerlings 3''. Personnel *Andrew Birdvocals, guitar, violin, glockenspiel, whistles *David Boucherproduction *Kevin O'Donnelldrums, percussion, beats *Nora O'Connor Nora O’Connor (born ...
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Babooshka (song)
"Babooshka" is a song by English singer Kate Bush, taken from her third studio album ''Never for Ever'' (1980). Released as a single in June 1980, it spent 10 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number five. It was an even bigger hit in Australia, where it peaked at number two (for three weeks) and was the 20th best-selling single of the year. A rock song, "Babooshka" is about a woman who sends love letters to her husband under the titular pen name. The song makes notable use of Fairlight CMI digital synthesizer. Background and composition Kate Bush recorded "Babooshka" between January and June 1980, during the recording sessions of ''Never for Ever''. It was described as a rock song. The track features John Giblin on bass and marks the significance of fretless bass sounds as instrumental "male" partners through Bush's music in the early eighties. The song ends with a sample of glass breaking, one of the earliest examples of a sample created with the newly available Fairlight CMI ...
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Katherine Ferrers
Katherine Ferrers (4 May 1634 – c. 13 June 1660) was an English gentlewoman and heiress. According to popular legend, she was also the "Wicked Lady", a highwaywoman who terrorised the English county of Hertfordshire before dying from gunshot wounds sustained during a robbery. History Katherine Ferrers was born on 4 May 1634 at Bayford in Hertfordshire to Knighton Ferrers and his wife, the former Katherine (or Catherine) Walters, and heiress to a considerable fortune. The Ferrers family were fervent Protestants and great favourites of both Henry VIII and Edward VI; the latter granted them extensive properties in Hertfordshire, including Bayford, Ponsbourne, Agnells, the family mansion at Flamstead, and the manor house of Markyate Cell at Markyate. Knighton Ferrers died in 1640, and Katherine's grandfather, Sir George Ferrers, died soon after. Katherine's brother, who was the heir to the family fortunes, had died young, so by court decree in October 1640, she was appointed s ...
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The Kipper Family
The Kipper Family was a two-man parody English folk group, played by Chris Sugden (as Sid Kipper) and Dick Nudds (as his father Henry). History The group performed as the Kipper Family throughout the 1980s and released several cult albums. Partly parodying the Copper Family, they performed their variations of traditional folk songs, with lyrics twisted to take in themes including cross-dressing, under-age sex, homosexuality at sea and the dissection of human cadavers. In the early days, the Kipper Family would perform to crowds expecting an ordinary folk act, firmly staying in character during the whole period in the public eye, and it would be several songs into the set before the penny dropped. Later recordings include "We're Norfolk and Good", "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen" and "Bored of the Dance" and also a folk opera, ''The Crab Wars''. In addition to the released LPs, ''Christmas with the Kippers'', a Christmas special, was recorded for BBC Radio Two. They were seen onc ...
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Kate Bush
Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer. In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights (song), Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. Bush has since released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka (song), Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", "Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush song), Don't Give Up" (a duet with Peter Gabriel) and "King of the Mountain (Kate Bush song), King of the Mountain". All ten of her studio albums reached the UK Top 10, with all bar one reaching the top five, including the UK number one albums ''Never for Ever'' (1980), ''Hounds of Love'' (1985) and the greatest hits compilation ''The Whole Story'' (1986). She was the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female art ...
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Talis Kimberley
Talis Kimberley is an English folk singer-songwriter, activist, and political figure based in Wiltshire, England. Her songs are narrative in nature and feature a mixture of mythology, green issues and everyday life approached from unexpected angles, among other things. She performs as a solo artist or with her floating band (formerly 'Mythical Beasts'), and is managed by Marchwood Media. She has been an active contributor to the Occupy movement, and in 2015 was the parliamentary candidate for the Green Party for the South Swindon constituency, winning 1,757 votes. Music Kimberley has been an active musician on the filk circuit since 1990, playing in the UK, Germany, Canada and the United States. She has been a Guest of Honour at VIbraphone (1994) – UK; FilKONtario (1997) – Canada; OVFF (2000), Consonance (2003), DucKon 19 (2010), MarCon (2017) – USA; and FilkCONtinental (2006) – Germany. She was also Guest at DraCon, Bristol (1992) and 'Featured Filker' at Boskone, US ...
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Folk Song
Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by Convention (norm), custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with popular music, commercial and art music, classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith ...
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Highwayman
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted highwaymen were widely considered to be socially superior to footpads. Such criminals operated until the mid or late 19th century. Highwaywomen, such as Katherine Ferrers, were said to also exist, often dressing as men, especially in fiction. The first attestation of the word ''highwayman'' is from 1617. Euphemisms such as "knights of the road" and "gentlemen of the road" were sometimes used by people interested in romanticizing (with a Robin Hood–esque slant) what was often an especially violent form of stealing. In the 19th-century American West, highwaymen were sometimes known as ''road agents''. In Australia, they were known as bushrangers. Robbing The great age of highwaymen was the period from the Restoration in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. Some of them are known to have been disban ...
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