Collected by Cecil Sharp in 1923, from William Pittaway of Burford in Oxfordshire. 

For more, see http://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/week-93-barbara-ellen/ - this recording was originally posted there in June 2013. I've been prompted to upload it here by Radio 2's promotion of their Cecil Sharp Collection - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ldc63/profiles/cecil-sharp

For more recordings of songs collected by Sharp, see http://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/tag/cecil-sharp/

Barbara Ellen

Can anyone tell me
a) what this tune is?
b) how the B music should go? (the B music I'm playing fits nicely, but really belongs to Archer's Dance)

Mystery Jig with wrong B music

rehearsal May 2012

Girl with the Blue Dress On / Double Lead Through

All Jolly Fellows

Originally titled "Untitled Hornpipe from Gavin Atkin", I only posted this short recording so I could  find out  from Gavin what the tune is called. Turns out it is an untitled hornpipe from 19th century fiddler Lawrence Leadley of Helperby.

Lawrence Leadley's Hornpipe

Mat Green - fiddle
Andy Turner - one row melodeon
playing live in a pub at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, 2007.

http://www.magpielane.co.uk/andyturner/mat_andy.htm

Muffin Man / Quickstep in the Battle of Prague / Welch's Polka

Traditional Christmas carol from the Copper Family. 
Arrangement copyright Andy Turner 2020 for A Folk Song A Week.

Sung by:
Alison Tebbs, Andy Turner, Becca Heddle, Carol Turner, Caroline Butler, George Sansome, Giles Hutchinson, Gill Wren, Ian Blake, Jackie Oates, Jim Causley, Joe Turner, Jon Boden, Jonathan Jarvis, Lucy Davies, Marguerite Hutchinson, Mike Eaton, Sophie Thurman, Tom Bower, Zoe Tebbs.

For more information see  https://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/week-300-shepherds-arise/

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