It is the Mission of the Yorkshire Garland Group to make Yorkshire’s Folk Song Heritage as widely and as readily available to the General Public as current technology and copyright considerations permit, and at no charge.

What’s new on your website?

Here we keep you posted on how your website is progressing. With Phases One and Two now successfully completed we are currently looking for funding for Phase Three in which we hope to continue: a) adding songs to the website, b) our educational work, and c) running workshops at festivals and venues around the county. In addition we are hoping to add to the website an interactive geographical map to show where the songs refer to. As a longer term project Ray Black is leading work on a new edition of Nigel Hudleston's 'Songs of the Ridings'. (We still have a few copies of the first edition for sale.)

Newsletters

Our occasional newsletters are emailed out to our mailing list and archived below. The links below open in a new window and require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Newsletter 3 (May 2010)
• Newsletter 2 (February 2010)
• Newsletter 1 (September 2009)

The Yorkshire Garland Group Committee and some of our Volunteers

Standing left to right: Bill Sowerby, John Greaves, Mark Ellison and Jim Potter (Volunteers);. Steve Gardham (Chairman), Mike Parsey (Secretary). Kneeling: Ray Black (Publicity), Ray Padgett (Treasurer).

We thank the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Local Heritage Initiative for their support.

One-day seminar: Yorkshire Museum of Farming, on July 26th, 2010 - CANCELLED

Unfortunately, due to low interest, the seminar at Yorkshire Museum of Farming on the 26th July has been cancelled.

Recent Group Activities

Successful educational projects undertaken in 2009 were Bryony Griffith's teaching of Yorkshire folk songs in a Shepley primary school culminating in a pupil performance at Shepley Spring Festival, and Steve Gardham's similar project in a Beverley secondary school culminating in a pupil performance at Beverley Folk Festival. In addition Steve and John Greaves took their Yorkshire folk song workshop into Osmotherley Primary School and St John's College, York, where they entertained a visiting group of American students.
 
Over the last 4 years Yorkshire Garland singers and musicians have run workshops at the following festivals: Barnsley, Beverley, Bradfield, Cleckheaton, Helmsley, Holmfirth, Saddleworth, Saltburn, Shepley, Whitby and York; and at many folk clubs, museums and other institutions around the county.
 
Click here to access a video of some of our singers performing at Whitby Folk Festival.
 
Click here for a slideshow featuring the performers at our Launch day concerts at York in 2008.

Links

• The English Folk Dance and Song Society
• The Roud Index
• The British Library Sound Archive
• Yorkshire Dales Workshops
• Farne (Folk Arts North East) and Explore Music
• The Village Music project
• Ethno England
• South Riding Folk Arts Network
• Yorkshire Folk Arts
• Traditional Song Forum
• Musical Traditions
• Mudcat (The ultimate folk chatroom)
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads

For further links, such as folk club and festival websites, click here