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SANDS OF TIME

A PROJECT IN ASSOCIATION WITH

THE GREENSAND TRUST’S ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ABOUT LEIGHTON BUZZARD’S SAND INDUSTRY

Wixamtree WIXD104

 

§         The Engine Boy*

§         Dobbing

§         Sand

 

Also Includes A Song by Barry Goodman *

 

See Life & Times’ schools website Special Projects page for details. See also www.thesandmuseum.org where you can hear two of the songs.

 

 

 

CDs

 

 

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MARSTON VALE

A Community Project

Life & Times - with the school choir of

Marston Vale Middle School, Stewartby, Beds.

A CELEBRATION OF THE HISTORY, FUTURE,  TRADITIONS AND LEGEND OF MARSTON VALE, BEDFORDSHIRE

Limited Edition of 150 Copies

 

§         E Pericoloso Sporghesi*/Non Fumatore*

§         The B&MK

§         Brickmaking

§         Little Italy*

§         The Pits That Scar The Land

§         Bedfordshire Brickmakers

§         Man of Clay

§         Marmalade Polka**/John’s Bunion*

§         Jump With The Devil

§         Holes & Homes

§         The Last Hoffmans

§         Seven Chimneys/The Stewartby Phorpres

§         Marston Vale

 

Also Includes Songs and Music by

Barry Goodman * and traditional music **

 

This is not a studio recording but recorded in the school on mobile recording equipment

 

See Life & Times’ schools website Special Projects page for details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT

Life & Times

A CELEBRATION OF 250 YEARS OF THE BRITISH CANALS

Wixamtree WIX052

 

§         The Duke of Bridgewater

§         The Bold Navigators**  

§         The Ivel Navigation

§         A Working Boatie Man

§         Carrying The Load*

§         Lock Keepers of The Waterways

§         Narrow Boats To Tow*

§         Push Boys Push**  

§         Roses & Castles

§         A Bit of a Do*

§         The Row Between The Boaters

§         Finest of Them All***  

§         Banbury White Horse/Four Up*

§         Iced In*

§         Until The Cut Runs Dry

§         A Light At The End Of The Tunnel*

§         Where The Working Boats Went

 

Also Includes Some Well-Known Songs**, a Song Rarely Heard*** and Songs and Music by Barry Goodman *

 

>Almost a full hour of music<

 

It is music from this CD which won Life & Times the FATEA Tradition 09 Award which is…

 

“…presented to the act that have traditional folk at the root of their sound and use it to inspire new songs, tunes and arrangements.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHARIVARI

Life & Times

SONGS OF BEDFORDSHIRE

Wixamtree WIX051

 

§         Dunstable Downs Midsummer’s Day Song

§         The Life & Times of Henry Claydon, Highwayman

§         Plough Monday Song

§         A Working Boatie Man

§         Bushels of Brussels/The Felmersham Polka

§         All In The Wintertime*

§         Fuller’s Earth

§         One Man’s Morris/Ampthill Sunrise*

§         The Witch of Conger Hill

§         Charivari/Rough Music

§         Queen Catherine

§         *Newtown Jig/Keysoe Row

§         The Ghost of Lady de Grey/The Macabre.

 

Also Includes Songs and Music by

Barry Goodman *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A SELECT FEW

Time of Your Life

A CD OF DANCE MUSIC

 

Features Graeme Meek’s dance tunes:

 

§         Bushels of Brussels

§         The Felmersham Polka

§         Against The Grain

§         Apasthree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEEP DANCING

Time of Your Life and others

A CD BY THE HERTFORDSIRE FOLK ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MUSIC INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR USE IN SCHOOLS.

EFDSS Recordings EDCD07

Available from EFDSS, Cecil Sharp House, London

 

Features Graeme Meek’s dance tunes:

 

§         Bushels of Brussels

§         The Felmersham Polka

§         Against the Grain

§         Apasthree

 

 

 

 

 

 

SORRY, SOLD OUT

 

SHROPSHIRE IRON

Life & Times

SONGS OF THE 18th CENTURY COALBROOKDALE IRON INDUSTRY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Fellside FE071

 

§         The Most Extraordinary District In The World

§         Shropshire Iron

§         Abraham Darby

§         The Simple Life of a Quaker

§         Success To All These Learned Men

§         Lament For Darby

§         Boys of Bedlam

§         Bedlam Jig

§         John Wilkinson

§         A Furnaceman’s Life

§         A Bridge of Iron

§         The Bridge of Iron

§         Colebrook Dale

§         The Pride of Englishmen

§         Contemplate Good Fortune

 

 

LPs & Tapes

 

SHROPSHIRE IRON

Life & Times

SONGS OF THE 18th CENTURY COALBROOKDALE IRON INDUSTRY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Fellside FE071/C

 

SOME COPIES OF CASSETTE STILL AVAILABLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

SORRY, SOLD OUT

 

Sponsored By

Eastern Arts Association

STRAWPLAIT & BONELACE

Life & Times

SONGS OF BEDFORDSHIRE

Fellside FE043

 

§         One Man’s Morris

§         The Markyate Highwayman

§         Brickmaking

§         The Scots of the Davis Gas Stove Company

§         Straw Plait

§         Let’s Go To The Grand

§         Blockers’ Seaside

§         The Bonelace Weaver

§         Bonelace

§         Bedfordshire Ale

§         Easter Song

§         Tell Old Charlie Irons

§         Why Axe Ye.

 

 

 

 

 

STRAWPLAIT & BONELACE

Life & Times

SONGS OF BEDFORDSHIRE

Fellside FE043/C

 

 

 

SORRY,

SOLD OUT

 

 

 

 

STRAWPLAIT & BONELACE

SONGS OF BEDFORDSHIRE

Pub. By Luton Museum &

Art Gallery (A5 Format)

ISBN: 0907106072

 

LAST KNOWN TO BE OUT OF PRINT BUT TRY

 

amazon.co.uk

 

 

Books

 

 

CHORUS SONGS FOR SINGAROUND SINGERS (VOLUME 1)

TRADITIONAL IDIOM SONGS WITH CHORUSES AND REFRAINS FOR USE IN SINGAROUNDS

A4 Format

This book contains the words and music to the following 8 songs for you to sing:

 

§         A Bedfordshire Whaling Song

§         Charles Wells & Josephine Grimbley

§         Flitwick Chalybeate Water

§         John Bunyan

§         Man of Clay

§         Plough Monday Song

§         The Toddington Tour

§         Tilsworth May Song

 

The cover price of £1.50 reflects just manufacturing costs

(+£1.00 p&p by mail order)

 

 

 

 

 

CHORUS SONGS FOR SINGAROUND SINGERS (VOLUME 2)

TRADITIONAL IDIOM SONGS WITH CHORUSES AND REFRAINS FOR USE IN SINGAROUNDS

A4 Format

This book contains the words and music to the following 8 songs for you to sing:

 

§         Bedfordshire Ale

§         Brickmaking

§         Holes & Homes

§         Jump With The Devil

§         Tell Old Charlie Irons

§         The Far Wastes of Van Diemen’s Land

§         Robin Hood of Hexton

§         Witch of Conger Hill

 

The cover price of £1.50 reflects just manufacturing costs

(+£1.00 p&p by mail order)

 

 

 

 

For Mail Order, see

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DAWN CHORUS

Carolyn Robson

Reiver Records RVRCD03

 

THIS CD INCLUDES AN UNACCOMPANIED VERSION OF MY SONG:

 

THE GHOST OF LADY DE GREY

 

Other Recordings of My Songs

 

THE BEDFORDSHIRE CLANGER

Five Feet Films

Dunstable, Beds

 

THIS SHORT FILM INCLUDES MY SONG:

 

THE BEDFORDSHIRE CLANGER

 

Available on DVD from…

www.thebedfordshireclanger.co.uk

…and on YouTube

…and on Myspace

 

 

Films

 

 

 

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                            Graeme Meek