Are you a Trad Musician, Influenced by English Folk Tradition? A Bursary!

The English Folk Dance and Song Society has just announced a fabulous opportunity. Quoting directly from their tweet, here it is:-

Applications are now open for the TheEFDSS Alan James Creative Bursary! If your work is inspired by or draws from traditional English folk music, apply for research and development funding here: http://ow.ly/pk1230oQ4j6

Library and Archive News from Friends at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

Trad musicians, do you subscribe to the newsletter from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House in London?  We think you'd enjoy it!

Take a look at the latest online news.  And note, there's a broadside ballad day at the University of Strathclyde coming up in February 2019!

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE NEWS from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

Have you had your Full English? (Digital Archive, English Traditional Music)

The English Folk Dance and Song Society recently launched a brand new digital archive of English traditional music.

Since national songs don't live in watertight compartments (and we could argue all day about what exactly you consider to be a national song, anyway!), you'll also find some Scottish and other traditional music in the archive too.

Take a look - it's a big and significant initiative!

• Click here for the EFDSS Full English
• Click here for the EFDSS homepage

Find Folk at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is run by EFDSS - the English Folk Dance and Song Society.  However, please don't dismiss it as purely a source of English traditional song and dance materials.  There's Scottish stuff too, and also valuable historical material.

Karen got very excited when she discovered just how much is there to be found. Do take a look! The catalogue is online, so it's easy enough to put in a few keywords and check out what's there.

http://www.vwml.org/

The Full English (Music, not Breakfast!)

The Full English is a newly launched database for traditional English music. The CB3 music blog tells you about it here:-

http://musicb3.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/the-full-english/

Then visit The Full English, hosted by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.  Enjoy!