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Willie's Lady
''Willie's Lady'' is Child ballad number 6 and Roud #220. The earliest known copy of the ballad is from a recitation transcribed in 1783. A variant of this ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in ''Ballads Weird and Wonderful'' (1912) and illustrated by Vernon Hill. Synopsis Willie has married against his mother's will. She, being a rank witch, has bewitched his wife so that she can not be delivered of her child. He attempts to bribe her with gold, and she tells him his wife will die and he will marry elsewhere. The household sprite Billy Blind tells him to make up a wax dummy of a baby and invite his mother to the christening. The mother came to see and, on seeing the wax figure, burst into a rage, demanding to know who had undone each charm she had put. Willie hurried and undoes them himself, and his wife gives birth. Commentary This ballad is found in several Scandinavian variants ( TSB A 40), with various charms laid by the witch; sometimes she could not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Ballad
The Child Ballads are List of the Child Ballads, 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads''. The tunes of most of the ballads were collected and published by Bertrand Harris Bronson in and around the 1960s. History Age and source of the ballads The ballads vary in age; for instance, the manuscript of "Judas (ballad), Judas" dates to the thirteenth century and a version of "A Gest of Robyn Hode" was printed in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The majority of the ballads, however, date to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although some are claimed to have very ancient influences, only a handful can be definitively traced to before 1600. Moreover, few of the tunes collected are as old as the words. Nevertheless, Child's collection was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown Of Horn
''Crown of Horn'' is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1976. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995. The album is remarkable for featuring intricate Moog synthesizer arrangements by Tony Cox on three songs. Tony Cox had previously made a name for himself as a producer and session musician for several progressive rock and folk rock bands, such as Caravan, Camel, Yes and Trees. In 1974 Tony Cox founded the Old Sawmill Studio in which not only ''Crown of Horn'', but also producer Ashley Hutchings' folk dance record "Kickin' Up The Sawdust" and parts of Fairport Convention's '' Gottle O'Geer'' album were produced in 1976. Track listing All songs are Traditional unless noted otherwise and were arranged by Martin Carthy. The references after the titles below are from the three major numbering schemes for traditional folk songs, the Roud Folk Song Index, Child Ballad Numbers and the Laws Numbers. # "The Bedmaking" (Roud 1631) – 3:16 # "Locks and Bolts" (Roud 406 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Ballads
The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads''. The tunes of most of the ballads were collected and published by Bertrand Harris Bronson in and around the 1960s. History Age and source of the ballads The ballads vary in age; for instance, the manuscript of " Judas" dates to the thirteenth century and a version of " A Gest of Robyn Hode" was printed in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The majority of the ballads, however, date to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although some are claimed to have very ancient influences, only a handful can be definitively traced to before 1600. Moreover, few of the tunes collected are as old as the words. Nevertheless, Child's collection was far more comprehensive than any previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 under the title ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.'' The ballads Following are synopses of the stories recounted in the ballads in Child's collection. Since Child included multiple versions of most ballads, the details of a story can vary widely. The synopses presented here reflect the summaries in Child's text, but also rely on other sources as well as the ballads themselves. References {{Francis James Child * Murder ballads Child Ballads The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Ar Chistr
"" (, also called "", ) is a traditional song of Brittany, whose words in Breton were written in 1929 by two Morbihan teenagers Jean Bernard and Jean-Marie Prima. The melody was brought to prominence through a 1970 interpretation by famous Breton singer Alan Stivell, and also in 1976 by the Dutch band Bots under the name "". Recordings The song is still used by folk groups around the world and has been translated into many languages. Though many groups keep the popular motif, the lyrics sometimes differ completely from the original. Selected recordings include: * Elen Guychard - ''Tudjentil Baod'' (1940) * Kevrenn Saint-Malo & Jacques Malard - ''Ev Chistr Ta Laou! Skaer'' (1959) * Alan Stivell — ''Son Ar Chistr'' (1970) * Bots — ''Zeven dagen lang'' (1976) * Frida Boccara — ''La Mariée'' (1976) * Oktoberklub — ''Was wollen wir trinken'' (1977) * Bots — ''Sieben Tage lang'' (1980) * Angelo Branduardi — ''Gulliver'' (1980) * The Chieftains — ''Ev Chistr 'Ta, Laou! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Ballads (album)
''Child Ballads'' is a collaborative studio album by American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and musician Jefferson Hamer, released on February 11, 2013, by Wilderland Records. It serves as Mitchell's sixth studio album and Hamer's second. The album is composed of old folk ballads from the collection of the same name by Francis James Child re-arranged by the duo. They recorded the album with producer Gary Paczosa in early 2012. ''Child Ballads'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. Background A few years before her previous album, '' Young Man in America'', Mitchell started becoming more interested in traditional music. She ended up purchasing a series of books: the 'Francis J. Child Collection of Ballads', also known as the "Child Ballads", and was inspired by the "beautiful" language and the "pure-heartedness of storytelling" of the songs. The "Child Ballads" was collected by Harvard professor Francis James Child, who gathered more than 300 folk songs fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaïs Mitchell
Anaïs Mitchell (; born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including ''Hadestown (album), Hadestown'' (2010), ''Young Man in America'' (2012),Anais Mitchell: 'I like to cry' March 8, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2013. ''Child Ballads (album), Child Ballads'' (2013), and ''Anaïs Mitchell (album), Anaïs Mitchell'' (2022). She developed her album ''Hadestown'' into a Hadestown (musical), stage musical (together with director Rachel Chavkin), which received its US debut at New York Theatre Workshop in summer 2016, and its Canadian debut at the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton the following year. The show opened at London's Royal National Theatre, National Theatre in November 2018 and then on Broadway on April 17, 2019, at the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weave And Spin
''Weave and Spin'' is the first album by folk trio Lady Maisery Review Lady Maisery, best known for creating a stunning vocal harmony by way of their songs and ballads, won the nomination for the "Horizon" BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2012 along with the "Best Debut" at the Spiral Awards 2012. It was the trio's 2011 debut album, "Weave and Spin" that launched them with a considerable feedback inviting favorable reviews from the daily, ''The Independent'', which rated it as an "Album of the Week". Lady Maisery are successful in reviving the almost forgotten " diddling or tune singing" so native to English music, which is still practiced in Scandinavia and Europe. The trio's talent always shines both when singing unaccompanied or with music to back them played brilliantly by them on accordion, harp, fiddle, and bansitar. Track listing Personnel *Hazel Askew (vocals, harp) * Hannah James (vocals, piano accordion, clogs) *Rowan Rheingans (vocals, fiddle, banjo The banjo is a str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Maisery
Lady Maisery are an English folk vocal harmony trio composed of Hannah James (vocals, piano accordion, clogs, foot percussion), Hazel Askew (vocals, melodeon, concertina, harp, bells) and Rowan Rheingans (vocals, fiddle, banjo). Lady Maisery sing traditional and contemporary folk songs as well as exploring the tradition of diddling or tune singing, which has nearly died out in England, but is still prevalent in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. They released their first album, ''Weave & Spin'' in 2011, their second, ''Mayday'', in 2013, their third, ''Cycle'', in 2016, and most recently ''Tender'' in 2022. Name Lady Maisery's name is based on one that appears in a number of traditional folk songs, most notably the Child ballad " Lady Maisry", but also " The Laily Worm & The Machrel of The Sea" (the former of these appears on their second album, Mayday). History In 2011, Lady Maisery released ''Weave & Spin'' and were subsequently nominated for the Horizon Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Knight
Sharon Knight is a San Francisco-based neopagan composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist known for writing, recording, and performing Celtic fusion music she calls ''Neofolk Romantique''.Interview in witches & pagans, Issue 26, April 2013, published by BBI Media, Forest Grove, OR (ISSN 1546-2838) She also records and performs harder edged music with Middle Eastern themes as the front-person of the pagan rock/folk metal group Pandemonaeon. Knight is the co-owner of Trance Jam Records. Biography Sharon Elizabeth Knight was born on January 8, 1966, and raised in Redwood City, California. She studied in the Feri tradition of witchcraft with Gabriel Carrillo. Knight has also studied Thelema and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1994, she married the German musician Winter, who has been her musical collaborator since. Career Knight's debut album, ''Incantation'', was released in 1996, followed by the self-titled ''Pandemonaeon'' debut (2001), ''Temple of Dreams-Live!'' (2003), and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Fisher (singer)
Ray Galbraith Fisher (26 November 1940 – 31 August 2011) was a Scottish folk singer. ''The Scotsman'' has called her "perhaps the best-known Scots folksinger of her generation", and ''The Guardian'', "one of Britain's great interpreters of traditional song". Early life Ray Galbraith Fisher was born on 26 November 1940 at Redlands Hospital, Glasgow, the second of six daughters and third of seven children of John Fisher, a police inspector, and his wife, Morag Fisher (born Marion Macdonald). Her father sang as a soloist in the City of Glasgow police choir, and her mother sang in Scots Gaelic. She was educated at Hyndland Secondary School, as was her brother Archie, and it was where she met Hamish Imlach, followed by Jordanhill Teacher Training College. Career Fisher began in the 1950s with a skiffle group alongside her brother Archie, before they became a folk duo, Ray and Archie Fisher. They were regulars at Norman Buchan's Glasgow Ballads Club, and it was through Buchan an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Carthy
Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Carthy was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, and grew up in Hampstead, North West London. His mother was an active socialist and his father, from a family of River Thames lightermen, went to grammar school and became a trade unionist and a councillor for Stepney at the age of 21. Martin's father had played fiddle and guitar as a young man but Martin was unaware of this connection to his folk music heritage until much later in life. His vocal and musical training began when he became a chorister at the Queen's Chapel of The Savoy. He picked up his father's old guitar for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
