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SISTER SITES	Life & Times For Schools	Life & Times’ site for those interested in our school shows. Includes specific relevant details.
	Life & Times on Myspace	A new venture started in 2007 which we hope to develop over time. Keep checking back just in case.
	Life & Times on YouTube	Several of our songs with slideshows or videos
	Life & Times on Facebook	Our Facebook presence. If you are on Facebook too, please press ‘Like’!
	Time Of Your Life	Our E-Ceilidh/Barn Dance band site. A 5-piece band including caller, fiddle, melodeon, guitar, bass and drums.
	Time of Your Life on Myspace	A new venture started in 2007 which we hope to develop over time. Keep checking back just in case.
	Graeme’s Songs and Bedfordshire Song	Graeme’s site relating to his songs and music. A good deal more on Life & Times too with mp3 downloads.
	Barry Goodman on Myspace	Barry’s Myspace site to promote his activities as a caller, MC, singer, musician etc. etc. etc.
	Graeme Meek on Myspace	Graeme’s Myspace site.
	Barry Goodman on Facebook	Barry’s Facebook page.
	Graeme Meek on Facebook	Graeme’s Facebook page.
	Barry’s Songs	A webpage devoted to Barry’s songs.
FOLK MUSIC	Canal Songs	This site lists several Life & Times canal songs with words and music.
	The English Folk Dance And Song Society	England’s national guardian of traditional music, song and dance.
	Folk Music On The Web	The Free Reed guide to folk music.
	English Folk & Traditional Music on the Net	Martin Nail’s very extensive folk links site.
	Folk & Roots Music	A site by “fans” of folk music for fans of folk musics; contains events, artists, venues, reviews, interviews and features.
	East Anglian Traditional Music Trust	The aim of the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust is to increase awareness of and access to the traditional folk music, song and dance of the eastern counties.
	Manx Heritage	Dr Chloe Woolley of Manx Heritage was particularly helpful with our researches into Manx traditions for our school shows.
	Net Rhythms	A site with information, reviews etc. CDs etc. See the review of WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT here
FOLK DANCE	Webfeet	English Ceilidh, Folk Dance, Barn Dance, Cajun, French/Breton, Morris Dancing on the web.
	Elements of English Country Dance	An explanation of country dance terminology.
FOLK MAGAZINES	fROOTS	Local music from out there!
	The Living Tradition	A folk music magazine with a more traditional bias.
	Musical Traditions	The web-based magazine for traditional music enthusiasts.
	Unicorn	Local folk in Beds., Herts., Bucks., Cambs., and beyond.
	Freefolk	Mike Raven’s web-based folk magazine.
	Folking	Web-based magazine.
	The Folk Mag	Another online magazine for folk music enthusiasts.
FOLK MUSIC REVIEWS	www.folkwords.com	Tim Carroll’s site dedicated to folk music with reviews of CDs etc. See the review of WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT here
MORRIS DANCING	Redbornstoke Morris	The finest men’s Morris Team in Mid-Bedfordshire
	Bedfordshire Lace Ladies’ Morris	The finest women’s Morris Team in Mid-Bedfordshire
	The Outside Capering Crew	Morris with attitude!
	The Morris Organisations	The Morris Federation, The Morris Ring, The Open Morris.
	Shave the Donkey	The online newspaper for the capering classes!
	The Morris Café	The site for Characters, Animals, Fools etc. in the Morris.
YOUTUBE	Where The Working Boats Went	A slideshow of Life & Times performing at various events accompanied by the song Where the Working Boats Went.
	Marston Vale	A slideshow about Marston Vale Community Forest accompanied by the song Marston Vale; featuring the choir of Marston Vale Middle School, Stewartby, Beds.; from the Marston Vale Project.
	Wareham Court Leet	A slideshow of the outings of Wareham Court Leet which is accompanied by Graeme’s song of the same name.
	All In The Wintertime	A low quality video we were given of the cut-down Mummers play in our Christmas show in 2009. Audience participation included.!
	The Stonehaven Fireballs	A slideshow of the spectacular Hogmanay event at Stonehaven in Scotland accompanied by Graeme’s song. Photographs are coutesy of The Stonehaven Fireballs Association.
FILM	The Bedfordshire Clanger	A site dedicated to Five Feet Films’ short film: ‘The Bedfordshire Clanger’. The film features by the same name: my song, the tune by Taz Tarry and its accompanying dance by Redbornstoke Morris, the beer by Banks & Taylor of Shefford and the local delicacy which started it all. This site should be accessible from September 2007. See clips on YouTube here.
	The Morris Movie	A film about Morris Dancing featuring Derek Jacobi!
TELEVISION	Local News TV	This is a local internet television news site for Bedfordshire. A video on the site features Life & Times and Redbornstoke Morris at the 2007 Woodworks Festival.
VIDEO	Woodworks 2008	This is actually a slide show that shows Life & Times, The Brafront Guizers and Redbornstoke Morris at the 2008 Woodworks Festival at Marston Vale, Bedfordshire. When you get to the page, click on PLAY.
INSTRUMENT MAKERS	Pete Howlett	Pete Howlett is internationally-known as a maker of ukuleles! Pete went to school with Graeme but now lives in South Wales where he manufactures individually crafted instruments. This is his blog.
CRAFTS	The Guild of Straw Craftsmen	Straw plaiting is an old craft heavily associated with Bedfordshire, the plaited straw being the main constituent in the manufacture of straw hats, for which Luton is famous.
HISTORIC BEDS.	Campton & Chicksands Website – Robert Bloomfield Page	Find out about Robert Bloomfield, the poet who wrote The Farmer’s Boy, at this website. Graeme’s tune, Robert Bloomfield’s Jig, is named after him. The music can be found by clicking a link at the foot of the page.
	The Sand Museum	A virtual museum website set up after an oral history project Sands Of Time by The Greensand Trust. Two of the three songs we wrote especially for the project appear on the site. See also our Recordings page for details of the CD (Wixamtree WIXD104) and our Special Projects page for details of the music’s use in schools.
	Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway	The railway features in Barry’s song, The Engine Boy, written especially for the Greensand Trust’s Sands Of Time oral history project. It was used for transporting sand from the sand pits to a depot for loading onto mainline trains for export all over the world including The Sahara Desert (odd but true!) The line now operates as a tourist attraction with trains running at certain times during the year.
WEB DIRECTORIES	Music MK	Artists, venues and events in Bucks. and Beds.
	Guestlist	Folk Music Information Pages. Artist directory and Folktalk magazine.
	The Folk Directory	A site listing various artists from around the folk scene. You’ll find Life & Times there.
	bedfordshire.net	Loads of web links related to Bedfordshire.
	Willington-on-line-Free-for-all-Links	Even more Bedfordshire web links.
	Mid Beds Arts Directory	Now on line at the Mid Beds local government website is their local Arts Directory.
	www.dirpedia.com	DirPedia.com - combining a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a web directory.
	the-music-directory.com	A collection of links to music related websites and newsgroups.
	FolkWorld	The online folk and world music magazine. Artist listings here.
	Folk Artists	Jay Glicksman’s site with a very large list of performers.
CANALS	The Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway	A new waterway for the 21^st century which is set to link Bedford’s River Great Ouse to The Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes by c2030. It is known as The B&MK (which is the title of our song about it!) Find the words and sound file of our song on their site here. You can see a picture of us on page 3 of their July 28^th 2009 newsletter, click here
	www.canalcuttings.co.uk	Online waterways magazine with a feature about our canal show WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT.
	www.narrowboatworld.com	Online waterways magazine with a feature about our canal show WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT.
	Jim Shead	Waterways photographer and writer. Lots of information about the waterways of Britain.
OTHER LINKS	British Library Sound Archive	See Life & Times’ entries in The British Library Sound Archive. Select Sound Archive then enter life and times and name in the search boxes. Charivari seems to be listed in a different way. Go to the search page again and type in charivari and select title. You will find it listed there (about No.11 or 12) and the details can be accessed from that page.
	The Ironbridge Gorge Museums	The inspiration for Shropshire Iron.
	Out and About with John Pilgrim	Links to other Bedfordshire sites and local interest. John Pilgrim runs the Out and About programme on BBC 3 Counties Radio.
	Where to Go in Bedfordshire	A site for visitors to Bedfordshire detailing places to see, countryside walks etc.
	Wassledine	A smallholding in the heart of Bedfordshire run by our friends, Guy and Jane Lambourne, who also commissioned Graeme’s song The Bridge Down the Meadow and Barry’s tune Over The Bridge in 2003. Jane is also a storyteller.
	British Schools Museum	A friend of Life & Times who hosted the premiere of our canal show Where The Working Boats Went in the only surviving Lancasterian classroom in the country March 2009. Well worth a visit to see how Victorian children were educated.
	Wareham Court Leet	The site of Wareham Court Leet where you can hear Graeme’s song about their annual inspection of the local pubs. The song can be found on this page accompanying an embedded YouTube slideshow of the Court Leet over the years. Follow their More Archives: Documents link to find the sheet music for the song.