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SISTER SITES
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(main site) |
The main website for Life & Times |
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A new venture started in 2007 which we
hope to develop over time. Keep checking back just in case. |
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Several of our songs with slideshows or
videos |
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Our Facebook
presence. If you are on Facebook too, please press
‘Like’! |
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Our E-Ceilidh/Barn Dance band site. A
5-piece band including caller, fiddle, melodeon, guitar, bass and drums. |
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A new venture started in 2007 which we
hope to develop over time. Keep checking back just in case. |
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Graeme’s site relating to his songs and music.
A good deal more on Life & Times too with mp3 downloads. |
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Barry’s Myspace
site to promote his activities as a caller, MC, singer, musician etc. etc.
etc. |
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Graeme’s Myspace
site. |
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Barry’s Facebook
page. |
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Graeme’s Facebook
page. |
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A webpage devoted to Barry’s songs. |
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FOLK MUSIC
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This site lists several Life & Times
canal songs with words and music. |
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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. |
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Dr Chloe Woolley
of Manx Heritage was particularly helpful with our researches into Manx
traditions for our school shows. |
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A site with information, reviews etc. CDs
etc. See the review of WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT here |
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FOLK DANCE |
English Ceilidh, Folk Dance, Barn Dance,
Cajun, French/Breton, Morris Dancing on the web. |
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An explanation of country dance
terminology. |
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FOLK MAGAZINES |
Local music from out there! |
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A folk music magazine with a more
traditional bias. |
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The web-based magazine for traditional
music enthusiasts. |
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Local folk in Beds., Herts., Bucks.,
Cambs., and beyond. |
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FOLK MUSIC REVIEWS |
Tim Carroll’s site dedicated to folk
music with reviews of CDs etc. See the review of WHERE
THE WORKING BOATS WENT here |
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MORRIS DANCING |
The finest men’s Morris Team in
Mid-Bedfordshire |
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The finest women’s Morris Team in
Mid-Bedfordshire |
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The Morris
Federation, The Morris Ring, The Open Morris. |
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YOUTUBE
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A slideshow of Life & Times
performing at various events accompanied by the song Where
the Working Boats Went. |
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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. |
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A slideshow of
the outings of Wareham Court Leet which is accompanied by Graeme’s song of
the same name. |
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A low quality video
we were given of the cut-down Mummers play in our Christmas show in 2009.
Audience participation included.! |
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A slideshow of
the spectacular Hogmanay event at Stonehaven in |
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A site dedicated
to Five Feet Films’ short film: ‘The Bedfordshire Clanger’. The film features
by the same name: my song, the tune by |
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A film about
Morris Dancing featuring Derek Jacobi! |
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TELEVISION
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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. |
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VIDEO
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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. |
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On this site you
will find a series of DVDs, some with clearly educational content: a |
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SPECIAL
SCHOOL PROJECTS
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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. |
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OTHERS WORKING IN SCHOOLS
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Steve Rowley (an
old friend of ours) provides arts and music based days in schools. Please
mention Life & Times’ website when you contact. |
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Steve (‘The
History Man’) & Jo are friends who are well known around schools and have
their own site at Wells-next-the-Sea, |
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A company
providing sports coaching, fitness programmes, out of school clubs etc.
Please mention Life & Times’ website when you contact. |
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INSTRUMENT MAKERS
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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. |
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CRAFTS
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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. |
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Artists, venues
and events in Bucks. and Beds. |
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Folk Music
Information Pages. Artist directory and Folktalk
magazine. |
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A site listing various
artists from around the folk scene. You’ll find Life & Times there. |
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Loads of web
links related to Bedfordshire. |
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Even more
Bedfordshire web links. |
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Now on line at
the Mid Beds local government website is their local Arts Directory. |
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DirPedia.com -
combining a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a web
directory. |
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A collection of
links to music related websites and newsgroups. |
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The online folk and
world music magazine. Artist listings here. |
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Jay Glicksman’s site with a very large list of performers. |
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OTHER LINKS |
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. |
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The inspiration
for Shropshire
Iron. |
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A new waterway
for the 21st 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 |
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Links to other
Bedfordshire sites and local interest. John Pilgrim runs the Out and About
programme on |
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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. |
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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. |
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This is a site
devoted to the Bedfordshire |
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