With Christmas just around the corner, we had to bring you a selection of carols and festive music lurking in the county record offices. Read our latest blogs: a third-part series by Dr Caro Lesemann-Elliott exploring Christmas music across southern England:
www.musicheritageplace.uk/news-1
It’s the last week of term and you know what that means… carols with caro! I’ve written a 3-part blog series of for @musicheritageplace.bsky.social documenting our work on music for Christmas thus far 🎶🎄 part 1 is an introduction to carols and overview of our work…
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Join Dr Caro Lesemann-Elliott, one of the project researchers, this Tuesday online to discover more about the project's findings in Buckinghamshire Archives at part of #buckinghamshirehistoryfestival
Get the online link here:
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A last outing for the Song Detectorists on BBC Radio 3 tonight. Matthew is in Bedfordshire with Stephen Rose to find out about political ballads. He also hears from Stephen about the discovery of a Purcell autograph manuscript in Norfolk and Stephen plays it for us.
Exciting last episode of the #songdetectorists second series tonight - tune in at 9.45pm on BBC Radio 3.
Here's a taster of tonight's episode. Join us on BBC Radio 3 at 9.45pm as we journey to Northamptonshire with @matthewbannister.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and the Melrose Quartet.
#music #heritage #place #songdetectorists
The Song Detectorists of @musicheritageplace.bsky.social take me to Northamptonshire tonight at 9.45pm on BBC Radio 3 in search of The Maunsell Family Music Book. Then @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and The Melrose Quartet bring it back to life. Top production by @natalie-steed.bsky.social
Tonight on BBC Radio 3, Matthew and the Song Detectorists discover why a gentlewoman from Wiltshire collected this salty song of the sea (sung by the wonderful Melrose Quartet).
Tune in at 21:45 or listen afterwards on BBC Sounds.
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Tonight's episode on BBC Radio 3 takes us to Wiltshire. Tune in at 9.45pm for another adventure by the #songdetectorists
Join us tonight at 9.45pm on our journey to Lincolnshire with @matthewbannister.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social @nancykerr.bsky.social Carol Dawson and the Melrose Quartet, on BBC Radio 3
We're off to Lincolnshire in search of the Devil with Carol Dawson, @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and the Melrose Quartet and @musicheritageplace.bsky.social in tonight's Song Detectorists on Radio 3 at 9.45pm. Lovely production, as ever, by @natalie-steed.bsky.social
Tune to BBC Radio 3 at 21:45 tonight for the second series of the #songdectorists, starting in Shropshire
Tune in all week at 21:45 on BBC Radio 3, starting tonight.
What a JOY this was to record and make - travelling to 5 more English County Records offices with @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Join us this coming Monday when we start in Shropshire, reimagining musical gems from the archives and rewilding them at Shrewsbury Folk Festival with @nancykerr.bsky.social, the Melrose Quartet and Professor Stephen Rose who leads the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project
🌟The Song Detectorists are back🌟
Tune into BBC Radio 3 at 9.45pm between Monday 20 October and Friday 24 October to join @matthewbannister.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social @nancykerr.bsky.social the Melrose Quartet, project team, archivists and local historians to discover more musical gold
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Really exciting work by our colleagues at @musicheritageplace.bsky.social discovering Purcell manuscripts!
Read about our recent Purcell discoveries!!!
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Caro Lesemann-Elliott describes the busy summer the team has had sharing project news at conferences in Birmingham, Durham, Newcastle and Southampton
Read it here:
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/d8w0wz...
We are looking at an early 18th-century tune book from Thorpe Malsor.
The summer has been a busy time for the project researchers too: cataloguing, presenting at conferences, discussing future publications and recording a second series of the #songdetectorists!
Here we are at Northamptonshire Archives with @matthewbannister.bsky.social and Sarah Bridges
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@nancykerr.bsky.social describes her experiences as a tutor with the National Youth Folk Ensemble exploring material from the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project thanks to project partner @efdss.bsky.social
Read it here:
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/d8w0wz...
What an amazing summer of performances and singing workshops across the country showcasing Music Heritage Place discoveries by Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet, including Halsway Manor Folk, Kimpton Folk Festival, @folkbytheoak.bsky.social @warwickfolkfest.bsky.social @shrewsburyfolk.bsky.social
Wonderful to showcase the 'Music, Heritage, Place' project at the #dcdc25 conference at Durham University and chatting with project partners and GLAMA colleagues.
Absolutely wonderful to hear such lovely feedback about the project: "really inspiring to hear local traditions brought to life", "what the project is doing is of the utmost importance".
Thank you to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, all our partners and project team.
A fabulous day at @folkbytheoak.bsky.social for the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project with Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet performing tunes from 17th-century Newcastle and 19th-century Nether Wallop (Hampshire) on the main stage and 150 people singing a 1688 ballad in our workshop
🚨New blog alert!🚨 Find out more about the #songdetectorists and radio series here: www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/we-are...
It's the last episode of The Song Detectorists tonight on Radio 3. What a fabulous time we had criss-crossing England hearing about the music in County Record Offices and especially hearing the wonderful arrangements made by Nancy Kerr for The Melrose Quartet. Tonight it's Henry Atkinson's book.
Such a wonderful radio series presented by @MatthewBannister & such a wonderful showcase of awesome research by @royalholloway.bsky.social & @newcastleuni.bsky.social colleagues … #SongDetectorists 🎶
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