Projects in Progress

As well as sifting through Songs of the West looking for new songs, other sources available have thrown up some interesting ideas.

"The Fowey River Singers"

Talking to Martin Graebe (who is an authoritative researcher into the Baring-Gould Manuscripts) at the Cheltenham Folk Festival last year about songs from Fowey has led me to more songs and a wider area to research. Martin sent me titles of some 20 songs, which I am currently researching. I am now looking at an area that stretches from Bodmin Moor to Liskeard, down the Fowey River to Golant, Fowey itself and west along the coast to the old Port of Charlestown.

This is an exciting project for me and there are some songs I hope to perform in the not to distant future.

"Travel the Country Round"

At a carol workshop in October 2001 I met Irene Shettle from Guildford. I met her again at another Folk South West organised workshop at Bath in April 2002. From these two meetings came an idea for the two of us to work together. Irene is researching the Lucy Broadwood collection and as Lucy was in communication with Sabine it seemed a good idea to fuse the two. We now have ‘Travel the Country Round’, a concert of songs and stories from the two collections performed by us both. As our independent research continues, our joint efforts in concerts will always be fresh.