This list includes the gigs and talks that are confirmed at present. There are a few more in the pipeline, and we'll add them when we know they are definitely on.
14th Jan Cheltenham Folk Club as G and T
11th - 13th Feb Cheltenham Folk Festival tinyurl.com/yabdfyy
[Appearing on Friday night as G and T]
22nd Mar Cheltenham U3A AGM (song spot)
24th Mar Bideford Folk Club, The Joiners Arms
3rd April Tiger Folk, Long Eaton www.tigerfolk.com
5th May White Lion, Wherwell Song and Supper Club
As G and T
7th May Plymouth Local Studies Day (tinyurl.com/5sp6aex)
26th - 29th May Chippenham Folk Festival (www.chippfolk.co.uk)
June M&S on holiday in the USA We will be touring on the East Coast, meeting
and singing with friends. Details tba but will include Mystic Sea Music Festival 9th - 12th June.
1st July Swindon Folk Club as G and T
15th July Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk)
20th - 26th Aug Whitby Folk Week. www.whitbyfolk.co.uk
21st - 28th Oct Baring-Gould Festival and Song School www.wrenmusic.co.uk
8th November British Autumn, Dominikános ház, Pécs, Hungary. Talk in the morning
Concert in the evening.
11th November Cheltenham Folk Club
24th November Maidenhead Folk Club
2012
14th January The Cellar Upstairs, London
1st February Killerton House, Devon, Talk with songs
10th - 12th Feb Cheltenham Folk Festival (tbc)
11th - 13th Feb Cheltenham Folk Festival
24th May Devonshire Association, Torbay,Talk with songs
1st - 4th June Chippenham Folk Festival(www.chippfolk.co.uk)
26th Oct - 2nd Nov Baring-Gould Singing Weekend and Song School,
www.wrenmusic.co.uk
- Songs of the West - a live recording of songs collected by Sabine Baring-Gould made in 1992 and featuring Paul Wilson, Marilyn Tucker and Martin Graebe. The programme is based on a show put together to celebrate the Centenary of the publication of 'Songs of the West' and as well as the songs, it features readings from Baring-Gould. Available from Wren (see http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/ )
- Dead Maid's Land (Wildgoose Records WGS292) - More songs from the Baring-Gould Manuscripts by Paul Wilson, Marilyn Tucker, Tim Laycock and Chris Bartram with Chris Foster and Martin Graebe. This CD has recently been re-mastered and is now available again from Wildgoose records (http://www.wildgoose.co.uk/) or from Wren (see http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/).
- Parallel Strands (Wildgoose Records WGS 323) - Our first CD singing together. This is a mixture of songs from the Baring-Gould collection and Martin's own songs. Musicians and singers involved in the process were Keith Kendrick, Jeff Gillett, Paul Wilson, Paul Burgess, Paul Sartin, Barry Lister, Lyn Heraud and Pat Turner. The CD was produced by Doug Bailey. Click on the menu tab at the right for more details.
- Songs from the Golden Fleece (MTCD335-6) - Live recording of songs by singers from the Stroud Singers Club on which Martin and Shan sing separately and on one track (Christmas Lamentation) together. This CD was produced by Rod Stradling of Musical Traditions and you can see details here (including the full booklet from the CD) - http://www.mustrad.org.uk/records.htm
- Nice Warm Socks (Wren CD 008) - This is a CD of both traditional and newly composed songs that have been selected and adapted to be particularly appropriate for young children and those who have special needs, particularly those who use AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication - signing, symbols and voice output devices). For more details go here (Wren Music)
- Dusty Diamonds (Wildgoose WGS359CD) - A collection of songs from the manuscripts of Sabine Baring-Gould , with a couple from Cecil Sharp and two of Martin's own songs. Martin and Shan's vocals are supported by Keith Kendrick's concertinas and by the fantastic fiddling of Becki Driscoll and Nick Wyke. Click on the menu tab at the right for more details.
Martin has written a number of articles about Sabine Baring-Gould and his work, as well as other things about folk song over the years. If he had been more organised he might have a complete bibliography. No such luck! - so here are the ones that he can remember.
Magazine/Journal Articles
Many of the articles referred to here can be read on my 'Songs of the West' website, www.sbgsongs.org. If there are any articles that you want to read and cannot get hold of please get in contact - see 'Contact' page.
· 'A Devonshire Man Goes North', SBGAS Transactions 2011
· 'Aunt Emily's Songbook', SBGAS Newsletter, Feb 2011
· 'The Source: John Woodridge (Ginger Jack)', English Dance and Song, Spring 2011
· 'Gustav Holst, Songs of the West, and the English Folk Song Movement', Folk Music Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2011
· 'Baring-Gould's First Biographer', SBGAS Newsletter, Oct 2010.
· 'Pixies, Padfoots, and Popular Antiquities', SBGAS Transactions 2010
· 'A pretty wedding gift', SBGAS Newsletter, Oct 2009
· 'The Global Baring-Gould', SBGAS Newsletter, Oct 2009
· 'Sabine Baring-Gould and the age of electronic printing', SBGAS Newsletter, Feb 2009
· 'A Book goes on Holiday - The Land of Teck and its Neighbourhood', SBGAS Newsletter, Oct 2008
· 'Farewell Heat and Welcome Frost' (Sabine Baring-Gould's expedition to Iceland), SBGAS Transactions, 2008
· 'Devon by Dog Cart and Bicycle: The Folk Song Collaboration of Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, 1904-17,' Folk Music Journal, 2008
· 'The Source: James Parsons, English Dance and Song, Autumn 2007
· 'A Book Goes on Holiday - Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas', SBGAS Newsletter, Oct 2007
· 'A Book Goes on Holiday - A Book of the Pyrenees', SBGAS Newsletter, June 2007
· 'Working from Home - Collecting Folk songs from Lewtrenchard', SBGAS Transactions, 2007
· 'Touching on Nelson: Sabine Baring-Gould on the Trafalgar Centenary', SBGAS Newsletter Oct 2005
· Baring-Gould and Gladstone', SBGAS Newsletter, June 2004
· 'A Hard Road to Travel: The folk process at work', SBGAS, June 2003
· 'When we went A Gipsying', SBGAS Transactions, 2003
· Songs of the West Rediscovered, English Dance and Song, Spring 1995
Books
· Iceland - It's Scenes and Sagas - Foreword to the reprint of Baring-Gould's 1963 book published by Signal. Click here for details
· A Garland of Country Song - Introduction to the 1998 reprint of Baring-Gould's second folk song collection, published by Llanerch Press. Click here for details
· Folk Song: Tradition Revival and Re-creation, Ed. Ian Russell and David Atkinson, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2004 - 'Sabine Baring-Gould and his old singing men', paper delivered at the conference marking the centenary of the Folk Song Society held in Sheffield in July 1998.
Websites related to work by Martin and Shan include:
Songs of the West - (www.sbgsongs.org/)
A collection of material about Sabine Baring-Gould including a more detailed biography, photographs, songs, bibliography, articles and other reources.
Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society (SBGAS) - (www.sbgas.org)
The website for the literary society associated with SB-G. Details and reports of events, SB-G timeline, SB-G links, photos and other good stuff
Traditional Song Forum - (www.tradsong.org)
A resource for those interested in studying or collecting English Traditional Song. It includes records of Forum meetings and other events as well a number of useful resources.
Nice Warm Socks - (www.nicewarmsocks.org.uk)
Site dedicated to the CD and associated resources for the 'Nice Warm Socks' project, bringing songs to young people and, particularly, to those with special needs. The site includes notes for using song to support early learning, use with AAC and other learning as well as downloadable resources such as printable song sheets (with music) and a link to symbols through Widgit Software.