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Handed Down
Handed Down celebrates traditional songs and the people who sing them. The show is presented by Jenny Shaw, an amateur musician and professional writer. Each episode is full of music, tales and curiosities as we delve into the history a single song, often with the help of a fellow folk musician, to uncover the strange stories and colourful characters that lie beneath.
These are the songs that have been handed down from our ancestors. This podcast and the people involved in it help keep them alive so that we can hand them down in turn to future generations.
Handed Down
Handed Down Live at St Nicholas Church, Gloucester
Our first ever live show was recorded on 4th September 2022 as part of the Folk at the Folk Festival. This is a field recording of an acoustic show in a beautiful but very echoey space with the bells of Gloucester Cathedral occasionally in the background, so the audio is a little different from usual.
Features the following:
- Sainte Nicholas by Godric of Finchale (12th Century)
- Account of Eleanor and Rosamond from the French Chronical of London (14th Century)
- Fair Rosamond (trad - New England)
- Extract from The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Extract from The Lark Ascending by George Meredith
- The Lark Ascending/Lark in the Morn (tune)
- Letter to The Times from G. Henry Latchmore concerning Cecil Sharp (1931)
- Version of Lark in the Morning collected by Cecil Sharp (1 verse)
- Version of Lark in the Morning collected by Vaughan Williams
- Doffin Mistress (trad)
- Extract from the diary of Samuel Pepys
- Barbara Allan's Cruelty from the Roxburge Collection (1 verse)
- Barbary Ellen (compiled from two Appalachian versions)
- I Dreamed a Dream (Ashley Hutchings)
Thanks go to my family, especially Steven Shaw, for listening to all of these songs and tunes endlessly over the summer.