Folk Tales of Song and Dance

by Pete Castle

Overview

?The life of the travelling musician hasn't changed much over the millennia. For a prehistoric harper, a medieval fiddler or a modern guitar player, the experience is pretty much the same: there are times when everything goes well and others when nothing does.

But it's not just performing that can go wrong – listening can also be dangerous! Can you stop dancing when you get tired or must you keep going until the music stops … if it ever does? What happens if it carries on past midnight? What if it turns you to stone?

Pete Castle has selected a variety of traditional tales from all over the UK (and a few from further afield) to enthral you, whether you are a musician, a dancer, or a reader who likes to keep dangerous things like singing and dancing at arm's length.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750995092
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Series:	Folk Tales
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Pete Castle has been a professional folk singer and storyteller for over 40 years. He has worked all over Britain and occasionally abroad in just about every kind of venue imaginable from the largest to the smallest. These include both folk and storytelling events plus a lot of 'general public' events such as village fetes, arts festivals and community groups. He has recorded about 20 albums of both songs and stories. Since 1999 he has edited Facts & Fiction storytelling magazine and this will be his third book for The History Press.

Table of Contents

Glasgerion; Something to Tell ‘em; Sandy/Sandra; On Minstrels, Bards & the Like; Spencer the Rover; Blondel the Minstrel; Robin Hood and Alan-a-Dale; The Two Sisters; Binnorie; The Raggle Taggle Gypsies-O; Johnny Faa; Singing Sam of Derbyshire; The Old Wandering Droll-Teller of the Lizard…; The Mermaid and the Man of Cury; The Mermaid of Zennor; Ion the Fiddler; The Guitar Player; The Devil’s Trill; The Fox and the Bagpipes; Colkitto and the Phantom Piper; The Phantom Piper of Kincardine; Underground Music; Ffarwel Ned Pugh; The Fairy Harp; Dance Til You Drop; The Hunchback and the Fairies; The Legend of Stanton Drew; Jack and the Friar; Jack Horner’s Magic Pipes; The Bee, the Harp, the Mouse and the Bum-clock; Mossycoat; The Frog at the Well; Kate Crackernuts; Orange and Lemon; Hangman, or the Prickly Bush; Tom Tit Tot; Tiidu the Piper; The Pied Piper of Franchville; The Man Who Stole the Parson’s Sheep; Tapping at the Blind; Fill the House; The Show Must Go On; The Grove of Heaven; The Fiddler and the Bearded Lady; Joseph and the Bull; Bragi; King Orfeo; Dagda’s Harp; Etain and Midir; Glasgerion part 2; Jack Orion; The Devil’s Violin; Afterword: Into the 21st Century