#edith fowke

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Delightful illustrations by Katherine Boykowycz for Edith Fowke's 1965 book Traditional Singers and Songs From Ontario

[countrymusicandcher]

Women's Hour: Women and Folkmusic

Listening to this amazing episode of "Women's Hour" on BBC Radio, with the theme "Women and Folk Music".

I really recommend everyone to listen to it. There's a lot of of important and interesting themes here, including interviews with multiple amazing folk artist. Peggy Seeger is one but not the only one!

A piece of it is also the wonderful, wonderful discussion of female song collectors. I love song collecting and the tradition of "house recordings", where some of these collectors visited homes around countries the world over, recording old men and women to preserve the songs that they knew.

A lot of such material from North America released by Folkways back in the 50s and 60s, and Smithsonian still offer them to be streamed via both streaming platforms and their website folkways.si.edu.

On there, there is also two of my absolutely favourite song collectors - the amazing Helen Creighton and Edith Fowke of Canada. Creighton collected over 4000 folk songs, most of them from Nova Scotia, in a career spanning 60 years. She also wrote numerous books a. Fawke collected canadian folk music for over two decades and wrote a dozen books on folk music in Canada. Check out the album "English and Irish Songs of the Ottowa Valley" by O.J Abbott for example of Fawke's recordings(she recorded 84 songs from him alone), and listen to the song "Farwell to Nova Scotia", which was discovered by Creighton

But back to topic. If you just read my rant on Edith Fowke & Helen Creighton with confusion this radio episode is perfect for you. They will introduce you to the conceot of song collecting and why we love it and love the few women that did it. Take a look:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016x8c

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Folk Songs of ONTARIO - Edith Fowke Brought by Val

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Sally Go Round the Sun collected and edited by Edith Fowke, illustrated by Carlos Marchiori c.1969

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Sally Go Round the Sun collected and edited by Edith Fowke, illustrated by Carlos Marchiori

Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon, Sally go round the chimney top Every afternoon. [pg.10-11]

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Sally Go Round the Sun collected and edited by Edith Fowke, illustrated by Carlos Marchiori

One little elephant balancing, Step by step on a piece of string. He thought it was such an amusing stunt That he called in another little el-a-phunt. [pg.42-43]

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Sally Go Round the Sun collected and edited by Edith Fowke, illustrated by Carlos Marchiori

On a mountain stands a lady. Who she is I do not know. All she wants is gold and silver; All she needs is a nice young man. So call in my Nora dear, Nora dear, So call in my Nora dear while I go out to play (hit the hay!). [pg.66-67]

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Sally Go Round the Sun collected and edited by Edith Fowke, illustrated by Carlos Marchiori

Somebody, nobody, walks down the aisle. Sure it's Linda walking down the aisle, All dressed up in white. Who will be her groom tonight? Reg, Craig, Reg, Craig...[pg.70-71]