Traditional Songs of Devon and its Neighbours

Seminar commences at 1.30pm and runs until 5pm chaired by Steve Roud.

• Tom Brown - The Lock Collection of songs
• Paul Wilson - Collecting folk material from the mouths of the people
• Ian Maxted - The printed broadsides of Devon
• Bob & Jacqueline Patten – Song Collecting in Devon
• Yvette Staelens - Cecil Sharp’s gypsy singers of Devon & Somerset
• Influence of Folk Clubs on Traditional Song in Devon – a Martin Graebe interview

Followed by a concert

Celebrating the Traditional Music of Devon at Stoke Damerel Parish Hall, Paradise Road, Stoke, Plymouth, PL1 5QL, featuring local singer James Findlay and others (doors open at 7.30pm to begin at 8pm). Concert tickets on the door £6 (£3 to Devonshire Association and TSF members). Bring your own drink.

Note: visitors are free to attend the TSF Members’ Interest session in the Central Library from 10.00 - 12.30 on Saturday and access Musical Archive material in the Library on Friday from 3pm. 

There will be a Singaround the evening before (Friday 11 April) at The Morley Arms, 4 Billacombe Rd, Plymouth PL9 7HP (led by Tom & Barbara Brown), starting at 8.30pm.