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But, we ask ourselves - Who is Flora and where exactly does she come from? Could she be from Cornwall? Is she from Devon? And where exactly is West? Confused? Well you had better listen in to this latest edition of The Parson and the Songmen to find out!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode we continue to explore the idea that the music of Cornwall and Devon came from a common source, and that the arrival of the Saxons did not mean that the link between the two areas, and their shared celtic connections, were severed forever.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
We join Sabine and Freddie Bussell as they take a train trip to Fowey, situated on the South Cornish coast. But will their song-collecting excursion be profitable? Find out now in the fourth episode in the second series of The Parson And The Songmen.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode we join Sabine on a further song collecting trip into Cornwall, this time to St Mawgan, situated a few miles south of Padstow on the North Coast of the County. Here he visited a pub with a reputation for hosting singers, The Falcon Inn.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Welcome to the second episode of the second series of The Parson and the Songmen. In this series we follow the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould on further folk song collecting trips, not this time in Devon, but in neighbouring Cornwall. In this episode we visit Helston, in the west of the county, to find out about another Cornish celebration of the arrival of spring, Helston Flora Day.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Welcome to Series Two of the Parson and the Songmen where we will follow the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould into Cornwall on a new series of folksong collecting trips. This episode focuses on the age-old tradition of welcoming in the spring in the North Cornish town of Padstow on May 1st. Oss Oss Wee Oss!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
'Zackly what it says on the tin, a selection of songs featured in series one!
Track Listing and Start Times OR CLICK ON CHAPTERS to go straight to each song.
The Egloshayle Ringers 0.54 Spencer The Rover 3.02 The Gypsy 5.53 The Blue Flame 8.41 The Bell Ringing 11.13 The Last Of The Singers 14.50 Tithe Pig 17.31 The Blue Kerchief 21.22 The Slapton Smuggleress/The Sailor Woman 23.21
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
This podcast is aimed at those of you who may wish to do some of your own research into the life and folk song collecting of the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. You will have heard the titles of some books in the past episodes of this series, so to find out more about them then listen away! Also below is a list of the texts that are referred to:
'Songs Of The West - Folk Songs of Devon And Cornwall Collected From The Mouths Of The People by S Baring-Gould MA, H Fleetwood Sheppard MA, and FW Bussell Mus Doc DD. Published by Methuen & Co Ltd. 36 Essex St, W.C. London.
'Early Reminiscences 1834-1864' By S Baring-Gould 'Further Reminiscences 1864-1894' By S Baring-Gould Both published by John Lane. The Bodley Head Ltd. Vigo St, London.
'Onward Christian Soldier - A Life Of Sabine Baring-Gould, Parson, Squire, Novelist, Antiquary1834-1924' by Rev William Purcell. Published by Longmans Green & Co Ltd. 6 & 7 Clifford St, London W1.
'Sabine Baring-Gould - Squarson Writer And Folklorist 1834-1924' by Bickford HC Dickenson. Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot
'Half My Life - The Story Of Sabine Baring-Gould And Grace' by Keith Lister. Published by Charnwood Publications, 13 Grove Rd, Horbury, Wakefield, West Yorks.
'As I Walked Out - Sabine Baring-Gould And The Search For The Folk Songs Of Devon And Cornwall' by Martin Graebe. Published by Signal Books Ltd. 36 Minster Rd, Oxford.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this nineteenth episode of The Parson and the Songmen we find out whether the gamble that Sabine took with his inheritance did indeed pay off and whether he would ever reside in his native Devon again... But, as the title of this podcast may suggest, you may have already guessed the answer!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode we join Sabine, and his ever growing family, in his cramped vicarage in Yorkshire. Worrying about this overcrowded situation, he receives an offer from the Prime Minister (no less!) to take up a more substantial parish in East Mersea, Essex. Then, after some ten years, Sabine receives news that will set about the wheels of a return to his native West Country...
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Join Sabine on a journey into deep uncharted waters as he discovers the opposite sex! Where will this take him, and just who is the girl that has turned his head? Find out now in the 17th episode of The Parson and the Songmen.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this sixteenth episode of the Parson and the Songmen we hear how Sabine is finally ordained and find out whether he makes a success of his early days as a curate in Yorkshire.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
If you would like to find out more about the history of music and culture in Cornwall and Devon then this extended edition allows Mike O'Connor the opportunity to expand on the ideas that he put forward in the S2 11 podcast.
***Please Note*** The beginning of this podcast will sound the same as the standard one! Don't be fooled...
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode we hear how Sabine took his first reluctant steps into university study and how he took great steps to change the direction this would take, leading, amongst other things, to a connection with Count Dracula, werewolves and Vikings!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
This New Year episode marks the passing of Sabine Baring-Gould on the 2nd January 1924. But, although one hundred years on, his hymns are still sung, his books are still read, and, of course, the folk songs he collected are still sung. To celebrate this, Mike re-joins Kate and Jon Tidball, this time in Ashwater Church, for some more live music, including a special version of The Bell Ringing.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
An extra length podcast as a special Christmas gift for you and see you into 2024, the centenary year of Sabine Baring-Gould's passing. In this bumper festive edition of The Parson And The Songmen we explore the Parson's childhood and then give you a generous helping of live music in the shape of podcast author, Mike Bosworth, along with Kate and Jon Tidball, collectively known as Thimblerigg!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Here, we continue to look at the theme explored in the last episode, where we asked the question whether many of the songs collected by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould were particular to Devon and Cornwall, the old Celtic region of Dumnonia, and whose independent airs had survived in the 'Celtic West'.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode we explore Sabine's idea where he wrote 'I find that songs and ballads sung to their traditional melodies in Somersetshire, in Sussex, in Yorkshire, and Northumberland, are sung to quite independent airs on Dartmoor and in Cornwall'...
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
To celebrate reaching double figures, a podcast with a difference... As well as exploring how Sabine decided to preserve the songs he had collected for future generations, we meet the inspiration behind this podcast series and finally reveal some exciting news for 2024!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and his two fellow parsons, did indeed strike gold during the autumn of 1888, collecting some 90 songs. In this ninth episode of The Parson and the Songmen we join Sabine as he takes a jaunt around the southern edge of Dartmoor in order to meet two new singers.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this, the eighth edition of the podcast The Parson and the Songmen, we learn if the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was any good at remembering dates, how he managed to consign the 'Singing Machine' to his grave a year before his death, and just how three folksong-collecting Reverends were better than one!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
As we explored in Podcast Six, The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was not slow to edit, or completely rewrite, songs that he felt would not be fit for his intended audience. In this episode we discover just what happened to those airs, and focus on the creation of a brand new composition that was born out of this process.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
As the number of songs that the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould assembled grew it became apparent to other song collectors of the time, and those who followed, just how many of them he had altered or completely re-written. In this sixth podcast in the series The Parson and the Songmen we explore the Parson’s reasoning behind this and the later consequences for the songs collected.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Back in Series One in episodes 11 and 12 we explored Baring-Gould's idea that some of the songs and tunes from Devon and Cornwall were somehow different from those found to the east and whether the Celtic blood of the area had had an influence. Well folks, in order to gain more of an insight into this topic, Mike was lucky enough to recently talk to Mike O'Connor, who is a Cornish-based musicologist, folk performer, story teller, and folk music advisor for BBC TV series Poldark(!) in order to sound out his views on the subject.
***Please Note*** There is also an extended version of this podcast which goes into even greater detail!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this latest podcast in the series The Parson and the Songmen I attempt to answer the questions - just how old are the folk songs that the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould collected and why was there such a variety to be found right on the Parson’s very doorstep? Join me know as I investigate, in this fifth episode, ‘From Minstrels To Broadsides’.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
There must have been many times when out song collecting that The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould had to write down lyrics that in his own words were 'Not fit for Christian ears to hear or Christian lips to utter’. What then was he to do when songs of this nature came his way? Find out now in the fourth podcast in the series The Parson and the Songmen.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In 1888 the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould had discovered a rich lode of old Devon songs. But, although he had been told that he was the right man for the job to collect these songs, there was a serious drawback in the process due to him having had no musical training. Would Sabine be able to overcome this major challenge in order to accurately record the songs offered to him? Find out now in the third episode of the Parson and the Songmen.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this, the second episode of the Parson and the Songmen, we join the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould as he starts the task of collecting the old folk songs of his native Devon. After early difficulties in tracking down any songs his luck changes when he encounters a local thatcher and hedger, James Parsons, who due to the sheer number of songs that he knew was called ‘The Singing Machine’.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In 1888 The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould set himself the daunting task of collecting the folk songs of his native Devonshire, and later Cornwall, before they died out with their ageing singers. If he had not done so then this important part of our traditional musical heritage would have been lost forever. This first episode tells the story of how he began this project that would consume him for the next fifteen years. As the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould said: He considered it to be 'the most important achievement of his life'.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode we link an old Cornish song with a legend that tells of how three of our local rivers might have come into being! Intrigued? Well find out more now in the latest podcast of The Parson and the Songmen.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In musical circles in late Victorian times the question was often asked as to whether England had any traditional folk songs? The answer, thankfully, was "Yes!" But, it took Sabine Baring-Gould and other folk song collectors of that era to realise that these mythical folk songs had been looked for in the wrong places. One such place that yielded many, many songs was ye olde worlde inn (pub!) and in this episode we return to The Falcon Inn in St Mawgan, Cornwall to unearth the story behind a classic Cornish folk song.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In the very early 1900s someone 'knocked on the door' of Lew Trenchard Manor to ask The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould for advice as to how to go about collecting folk songs. This gentleman was taken under the Parson's wing, and later would become the most famous and well remembered folk song collector in this country. His name is Cecil Sharp.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
S2 7 Drinking Songs Are Not Folk Songs... Discuss.
In this episode we explore the origins of two songs from Cornish songmen which have a common theme... drink! These were destined for Sabine's 'Songs Of The West', but were dropped by another well-known folk song collector who had been given editorial duties. His reason? Songs about drinking are not folk songs....
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
This episode brings you the story of Edmund Fry, who moved from Cornwall to Lydford in Devon, just six miles from Sabine Baring-Gould's home. Edmund provided Sabine with several songs that he may never have collected on his song collecting trips into Cornwall, including one of his personal favourites, and rather a notorious one to boot!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Join us in this latest episode of The Parson And The Songmen as we explore Cornwall's mining heritage and how some of the songs collected by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould could may well have made it into Cornwall with miners returning to The Duchy from overseas.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Sam Henry was a folk song collector in Northern Ireland who Mike discovered after researching a song from Cornwall for this latest podcast. Digging deeper, Mike wondered if Sam had read Sabine's 'Songs From The West' and taken inspiration? Find out a little more now in Series Two Podcast 15 of The 'Parson and the Songmen'
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
As we near the end of the centenary year of the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's death, Mike ponders why the folksong collectors who came after him did not pursue the idea that many of the songs and tunes of Devon and Cornwall had celtic roots? We revisit the interview with Cornish-based musicologist Mike O'Connor from Series Two, Podcast 11 to reinforce Mike's view as to whether there was a positive link.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Happy Christmas! In this episode we join Mike on a road trip around Cornwall to look into the surprising history of carols and their place in the church. If that wasn't enough Mike also delves into the mysterious world of 'the little folk' or piskies, as they are known in Cornwall. Add a generous helping of Christmas song and you indeed have a bumper festive edition!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode of The Parson and the Songmen we join The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould and Freddie Bussell for two songs they collected from Samuel Gilbert, landlord of the Falcon Inn at St Mawgan (or Lanherne in the Cornish language). The two songs could well have origins far to the north, and to finish off Mike provides a theory as to why there may well have been so much footfall through Cornwall from 'up country'.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
A Happy New Year To You All! Join Mike in this first podcast of 2025 for the 18th episode of the second series of The Parson and the Songmen. This time around Mr Bosworth looks into the tradition of wassailing, which can involve drinking and making lots of noise... sounds a lot like Mike really!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
S2 20 The Children of Arganteilin (The Story Of The Harp In Cornwall)
Recently, Mike went to visit Barbara Griggs for a chat about the place of the harp in Cornish music. What you are about to listen to is a fascinating podcast, brought to life by the engaging, informative, and witty explanations from Barbara.
"After many years playing Early Music on recorders and viols, I took up the harp when moving to Cornwall. This led naturally to an interest in the early music of Cornwall and historic harps. Playing the folk music of Cornwall introduced me to many Cornish musicians, in particular Mike O’Connor, with whom I have collaborated in the production of 'Above the Tin Stream' and 'The Quay Street Harper'. Our latest book, 'The Children of Arganteilin', is the story of the harp in Cornwall".
Both Bards of the Gorsedh, Mike and Barbara realised that the other Celtic lands of the British Isles all have a well-documented tradition of harping, but that this had received little attention in Cornwall. 'The Children of Arganteilin' gathers information on a thousand years of Cornish harping, drawn from manuscripts, lexicons, account books, iconography, wills and newspaper reports. Here are the harps and the harpers, from titled ladies to medieval church musicians, the rag and bone man and the renowned performer. Here is the history of the harp in the land west of the Tamar and a vision of its future.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Well, we've missed All Fool's Day by a day, but let's celebrate this custom anyway. In this podcast Mike takes a look into its origins and tells some stories about one of Cornwall's great historical pranksters, as recorded by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Recently, Mike went to visit the force of nature that is Moe Keast at her home in Bodmin, Cornwall. Moe is a traditional singer and storyteller and has been a regular at Bodmin Folk Club, with a short break for bringing up children, almost since the first evening in 1968!
Moe has been a Cornish Bard for 25 years under the name of 'Myrgh Cana Hengovek', translating as, 'Daughter of Traditional Singing', and is very proud of her Cornish Heritage. She has played many festivals including Sidmouth, Whitby and Lorient in Brittany and has appeared in all the Celtic Countries. Moe seems to be part of the very earth of Cornwall, and is certainly, One Of A Kind!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Gool Peran Lowen! Or for those whose Cornish may be a little rusty, Happy St Piran's Day!
St Piran is generally regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall and the 5th March is St Piran's Day which is celebrated in Cornwall in much the same way as St Patrick's Day is celebrated in Ireland.
But who was St Piran, and why is he so special to the Cornish? Find out now in this twenty-second episode of the second series of 'The Parson and the Songmen'.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
In this episode of The Parson and the Songmen, Mike investigates the possibility of missing Cornish folk songs. Is there a religious connection and will he solve the case?
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Hardly seems a year since the last compilation of music from the first series. But yer us be! Season Two is now complete and we'll finish off in viddy style with the now customary(!) selection of songs from the shows. Geddon Boy!
Here is the track listing, or click on CHAPTERS (above) if you want to go to an individual track.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
The songs published in Songs From The West by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould were wholly collected, or particular to, Devon and Cornwall. But what to do with the songs sent to him from other parts of England and beyond?
Sabine never discarded these songs, but put them to one side as they were of interest and too good to be lost and these resulted in a new publication
Join Mike now as he tells the story of how this book came into being, which The Reverend Gentleman titled 'A Garland Of Country Song'.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
The publication of folk songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in Devon and Cornwall made them accessible to the general public, but left Sabine wondering just how he could reach an even wider audience?
His answer was to get on the road for a series of 'gigs' that were were probably the first ever traditional folk song tour of England!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Spring has arrived here in North Devon, and it would seem to have had quite an effect on Mike who is full of vim and vigour ( or possibly something stronger...)
In this first episode of the the third series of The Parson and the Songmen we are back in Devon to celebrate spring, and there is a distinctive feminine theme running through the podcast.
Confused? Well let's find out where Mike will lead us now. Happy listening!
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857
Firstly, Many Happy Returns to The Parson And The Songmen as it celebrates its Second Birthday with its Fiftieth Episode!
In this special episode Mike tells the story of how a song collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould made it into the British pop charts and peaked at No.3 no less!! What the Reverend Gentleman would have thought of Elvis (No.1), The Drifters (No.2) and Cliff Richard (No.4) who surrounded him at the top of the chart we will never know, but I bet he would have been chuffed that one of 'his songs' had reached such a huge audience.
Well, here's to the next fifty episodes of The Parson and the Songmen.
*PLEASE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE mikebosworth.uk Lots of info about my connection to folk music and The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould as well as upcoming gigs, contact details etc AND A CHANCE TO LISTEN TO CLIPS AND BUY A COPY OF MY CD ' By Chance It Was'. *theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig. *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk. *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/ *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/ *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller. http://www.lyngham.co.uk/ *Barbara Griggs. Harpist and early music specialist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857