Song Collectors Conference 2014
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Saturday 26th April
2014
10am-6pm
at The Proud Archivist
2-10 Hertford Road, London N1 5ET (nearest station:
Haggerston).
Tickets ?15 from www.thenestcollective.co.uk
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EXPLORING THE ART OF SONG, STORY AND FOLKLORE
COLLECTING
Following the huge success of our
first conference in 2013, The Song Collectors Collective is delighted
to present this one-day event of talks, presentations and
performances covering the practicalities, ethics, histories and art
of contemporary song collecting. A unique opportunity to explore the
origins of folk song, learn about the conservation of oral culture
and celebrate the gems on your doorstep and beyond!
Featuring:
Reg Hall -
recording Maggie Barry, Michael Gorman and the singers and musicians
of the London Irish sessions.
Angela
Impey - collecting Dinka songs of the cattle camps of
South Sudan
John
Howson & Michael Sheehy - 'Out of the box!', John has
collected music and song throughout Britain and Ireland for many
years and is now recording accordion player Michael Sheehy's enormous
repertoire of Sliabh Luachra dance music passed down through his
family.
Tony
Robertson - Tony has inherited the Scottish Traveller
songs of his father Stanley Robertson, who was recorded by Sam Lee
and shared through the Song Collectors website.
Nan
Connors - In 2012, Sam Lee and James McDonald
recorded the songs and reminiscences of Nan in her home in County
Wexford. Nan comes from and Irish Traveller background and remembers
the old ways of being on the road and sharing songs with friends and
family - not to mention many of the old dances! Nan will be in
conversation with James McDonald.
Jerry
O'Reilly - Jerry will be giving a
talk on the Child Ballads that are sung in the Irish
Sam Lee
- singer and SCC founder, Sam will give an introductory workshop on
how to start collecting songs
Talks
will also be given by some of the participants of the current Song
Catchers project involving songs being collected from various
communities in London.
The
day will finish with a concert with the invited singers and
musicians.
This event is
part of a collaboration between the Song Collectors Collective and
The Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS and is supported by Creative
Works London's creative vouchers scheme for Archives.
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PLUS...
Sunday 27th
TRANSCRIB-ATHON _at_ The Proud Archivist
Get involved with the SCC tapes, learn to transcribe, edit, index
and more! FREE!
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Feedback from the 2013
conference:
'As genuine and
exciting as it gets. Pure British song, rare and beautiful.'
'It's lovely to
hear songs, learn of alder-cockles and see so
many enthusiastic
people.'
'A very enjoyable
and interesting day. Brilliant to learn about new things and meet
people from such diverse backgrounds, who all share this passion for
music and stories in all their forms.'
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Get
involved! The SCC is looking for volunteers
to help at the conference with stewarding, filming and managing the
space. Lunch and attendance included!
To register your interest please email
songcollectorscollective_at_gmail_dot_com
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The Song Collectors
Collective is a group
of volunteers with an active passion to conserve the rare and ancient
oral culture of the world. We are recording and publishing the
tradition bearers who still keep our ancient sung and spoken arts
alive within their own families and communities. This work includes
researching, field recording, audio editing, cataloguing, indexing,
as well as publishing to the web, and subsequent promotion and
distribution of the freely available archive to help keep the
tradition alive. You can find many of these recordings and lots more
information on our website: www.songcollectors.org
The Endangered Language ARchive (ELAR) is a digital
repository specialising in preserving and publishing endangered
language documentation materials from around the world. We are a
small team of highly specialised archivists, data scientists,
audiovisual experts, and linguists, pioneering in the areas of user
interface, managed access and accessibility. The archive contains
approximately 6500 hours of audio and video from 140 collections from
around the world.http://www.elar-archive.org/
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