Here is a collection of links to many friends, aquaintances and places of interest.
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Home The entry point for Old Time Tim's website |
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Fiddle Music Collection of dance tunes composed by me and me mates |
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Songs Songs and Monologues what I wrote |
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The Hoofers A feature on the Haddenham Hoofers |
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Tall Tales Stories collected over the years |
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The Knoll Historic connections of my home |
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Knowledge Management My personal views on this contentious subject |
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Links Connect to friends, aquaintances, and other places of interest. |
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Site History A log of changes to this site |
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Every Boxing Day the Herga Mummers perform a traditional folk play originating from the Pinner area. We always start at noon in the Case is Altered public house in Eastcote, to a large expectant crowd. The photo is of our gaffer, Bob Hawkes, as the Valiant Soldier - His head is made of iron, his body lined with steel.... |
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I danced with the Herga Morrismen for many years. Sadly, advancing years, creaking joints and the lack of new blood brought the team to a fading end. But wherever there are six men (and a musician ) gathered together, who knows what might happen..... |
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| The Herga Folk Club has been running since xxxx and has recently moved to new premises in Pinner. | ||
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| The Haddenham Hoofers are an Appalachian Clogging team based in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. They have a large string band in which I have many opportunities to indulge in some rocking American Old Time music. | ||
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Kerry Fletcher Dance Teacher with real class. Traditional Swedish and Appalachian Dance are her specialities. Here she can be seen dancing an impromptu duet with Billy West at the East Anglia Traditional Music Trust's "Traditional Music Day" in Stowmarket in 2005. |
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| The Weston Appalachian Clog Workshops are run by Maggie and Cressida, with Kerry Fletcher (see above) as Dance Teacher, once a month on a Saturday morning in the village hall of Weston, just south of Baldock. | ||
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Doctor Sunshine My children grew up with the magnificent Dave Hunt, Professor Wingnut et al, Childrens entertainers extraordinaire (Oh no they didn't, Oh yes they did.....) Our tape of their LP never came out of the car Hi-Fi through the summer months. |
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Grand Union Morris Originally taught by Bob Hawkes and Alan Simpson when we drove the two of them out of the house we shared while we held band practices for Puddleduck, so I kinda feel responsible! Their May Morning celebrations at the Red Lion, Coleshill are always atmospheric! |
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Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival My great friend Ian (Murf) Murfitt is heavily involved in the organisation of this annual event. | ||
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| Friends of American Old Time Music and Dance (Foaotmad) A UK society dedicated to the co-ordination and promotion of Old Time music in the UK | ||
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GirlGerms are five innovative performers who share a passion for traditional American music in its purest and most unadorned form. This Twin-Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) based group presents rhythmic footwork, driving fiddle tunes, clawhammer banjo, plaintive harmonies and southern mountain-square-dance figures. My great friend Julie Young is the one on the left of this picture! | ||
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| The Tudor Folk Club, Chesham A friendly club that meets regularly on Monday evenings at the White Hill Community Centre in Chesham, Bucks | ||
Lynx = links.. get it?..... Oh all right, suit yourself!
Other useful Links
Hetzlers Fakebook A brilliant on-line source for all of the most well-known old-time tunes, categorised by key
The Session Ditto Ditto for Irish traditional music
abc notation resources Kerry's partner, Chris Walshaw, developed this now-widely used technique for notating traditional music. Many more links can be found from here