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Worcestershire Folklife RECORDINGS

for residents of Worcestershire, and also nearby Hfds (Bromyard/Ledbury)

For local amateurs • Yamaha 16 track digital recording machine.

This page is recordings.worcestershire-folklife.org.uk

LAST REVISED: 19 Jan 2011

Worcestershire Folklife ("WF") is a Folklife West project.

• awarded a National Lottery Grant, 2005-6
  • to buy recording equiptment, and
  • to produce and print a Worcestershire Folklife Journal 2006 and a Worcestershire Folklife Directory 2006

We now intend to continue and develop Worcestershire Folklife as resources allow ... no grant!, so currently recordings as below, and online listings.

FOR FOLKLIFE WEST, covering mainly West Country and West Midlands, see www.folklife-west.org.uk

From “Worcestershire Folklife Journal” (Sept 2006)

Worcestershire Folklife

Recording Facilities

Summary

• We have bought equipment with our lottery grant to enable amateurs to record (but note we are not publishers for professional artists recordings)
• This will continue to be available for you after the grant period expires

An entirely new venture: a recording project. We now have a 16-track recording facility to pursue and further local folklife interests by local amateurs.

With this equipment, we have researched and recorded different aspects of people, their culture and work/social experiences (and this will be continued after the grant period ends). This information can then be shared with a wider audience via Worcestershire Folklife and other publications, disc recordings, clubs, societies and forums etc. Material can also be included in folk song/play projects and may well be finally stored as local support detail to our County Archives in Worcester.

Thankfully, Worcestershire has many fine traditional and contemporary performers. Many of these, until now, have not had an affordable recording platform. However, Worcestershire Folklife has now offered them the opportunity to record for posterity their own work and the material of others (permissions permitting) at very sympathetic and reasonable prices, as long as such material is appropriate to Worcestershire Folklife's aims under the terms of our Awards for All grant (see page 2).

We have used recording facilities for recording people from across Worcestershire. So far [Sept 2006], they have been used by Brian (Worcester), Roger (Bromsgrove), Fiona (Worcester), Eleanor (Malvern), Carole (Malvern), Ceri (Tenbury Wells), Rebecca & Bob (Worcester) and Eric (Malvern).

Ceri has now won the Young Acoustic Roots Competition at Wickersleigh Folk Festival, and will appear at Cleethorpes Folk Festival, on the strength of that recording!

Further information is available from Worcestershire Folklife - we also invite potential researchers and interested friends to support this project.

Eric Payne, for Worcestershire Folklife Recordings

Contact Eric on 01886 832029 or email via www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk

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