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Freds Folks Ceilidh Band
For full details of the band, its history, philosophy, music and its personnel, see here. We were a resident band at the Whitby Folk Festival Whitby Folk Festival. in 1989. We played some nice Playford-ish tunes for John Lagdon, et al. We played for two of the late night Bop-till-you-drop sessions. One MC was Tony Foxworthy, who was rather lazy. Our younger members went to Alexander for fiddle players classes. Our hotel provided cramped quarters. We critised the festival admin in our report afterwards, and were not invited again! For photos of the band lineup over the ages, see here. For photos of dancers enjoying our music, see here. All our tunes are available as music scores here. Morris dance
Clog dance
Audio filesThere are some old mp3 audio files on the Freds Folks web site.
Audio files. Video filesIn the days of the Covid lock-down we videoed Joy singing various songs and Eric playing tunes for the Second Time Around folk club in Beeston started by John Chambers, which during lock-down became the on-line Beeston Folk Club. Academic bitsIn the early days of computers (Eric is old) I was interested in using computers to analyse folk music. I typed into the computer about 1000 tunes I had in my head. At various internatioal music conferences, where most members were interested in classical music, I gave papers on analysing, harmonising and classifying folk tunes.
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