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FTX-308

A-ROVING BRITAIN AND IRELAND

with Peter Kennedy

In this edition a mixture of land and sea - we meet the Copper family of Rottingdean, on the Sussex coast - a singer, melodeon man and some ceremonies on Guernsey which are special to this particular Channel Island - Unexpectedly the guitar is used to accompany the Shetland fiddler Tom Anderson - and from there to the Durham coal-mining village of Birtley for some unusual repertoire from their folk club residents - and that most widely sung of all folk club anthems when it was first recorded with Irish bagpipes from the McPeake family of Belfast - Thence to work - and to some of the privately owned stone quarries on the Dorset Isle of Portland - you might say sea shanties but on dry land - not long before we hear from a Norwegian sailor wrecked on Chesil beach.

ROVING JOURNEYMAN - GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME, RAKES OF MALO & MASON'S APRON - TWO BRETHREN - THE IRISH CAPTAIN - THE BABES IN THE WOOD - SI J'AVAIS LES SOULIERS - LA BARBIERE - THE HYLTA DANCE - JACK IS YET ALIVE - AULD CLETTIN ROE - BILLY TO BOB - A, U, HINNY BIRD - WILD MOUNTAIN THYME - BOLD O DONOHUE - FEMALE DRUMMER - ROLL, ROLL THE CHARIOT ALONG - HINKY-DINKY PARLEY-VOUS - EE KALAZEE or THE FRENCH SONG - ORANGE AND BLUE (Schottische) - BEINN A CHEATAICH (The Misty Mountain or KISMUL'S GALLEY) - WHIP JAMBOREE - BLOW, BOYS, BLOW - THE ATLANTIC ROARIN' - THE FLOWERS OF EDINBURGH - KISMUL'S GALLEY

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