Traditional songs from the 19th Century collection of Sabine Baring-Gould.
The songs on this album have been selected from the hundreds collected by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould over a century ago in Devon and Cornwall and have been chosen for the way they enrich and inform our lives now. As collected the songs have a rough, magical beauty like the moorland landscapes from which they come; now, like stones brought in from the weather to adorn a living room, they have been trimmed and polished for a new audience. The musical arrangements embrace harmony singing, fiddles, concertina, a touch of brass and other ideas borrowed from living traditions in England, designed to make these gems sparkle like the crystals in moorland granite.
Singers and Musicians
Paul Wilson (PW) voice - fiddle - accordion
guitar - cittern - tabor
Marilyn Tucker (MT) voice
Chris Bartram (CB) fiddle - cello - voice
Tim Laycock (TL) voice - concertina
Chris Foster (CF) guitar
Martin Graebe( MG) voice
Phil Humphries (PH) serpent - trombone
Ellen Thomson (ET) recorder
Bob Tinker (BT) trumpet
Wren Chorus
Paul Kemeny (PK), Dawn Newton (DN), Anne Perry (AP)
Julia Perry (JP), Marilyn Pinn (MP), Jenny Southam (JS)
