Beanzy
Jun-07-2016, 2:05pm
http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org
I'll let them describe it;
"Throughout his life Peter Kennedy was deeply involved with collecting, researching and publishing British and Irish folk and traditional music and customs. Working for the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), the BBC and independently, he recorded hundreds of musicians around the UK and Ireland between the 1950s and the 2000s – often in collaboration with other prominent collectors of the time, including Alan Lomax, Hamish Henderson, Sean O’Boyle and Seamus Ennis."
"What is this website about?
This website focuses on the periods during the 1950s when Peter travelled around the UK and Ireland recording traditional musicians and local customs whilst working on the BBC’s ‘Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme’.
Peter documented these collecting trips in a number of reports written for the BBC at the time, of which 31 have been found in his archive. These daily summaries of who he recorded, when and where contain a great deal of valuable information that help us to make sense of what’s in his collection.
This website turns these pages into interactive images to present the story of Peter’s collecting trips in his own words, ‘attaching’ his sound recordings and photographs to his text. Over 650 performance events by 550 different performers are detailed in this way. This presents us with a unique insight into Peter’s work and provides an interesting way to explore his collection."
I'll let them describe it;
"Throughout his life Peter Kennedy was deeply involved with collecting, researching and publishing British and Irish folk and traditional music and customs. Working for the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), the BBC and independently, he recorded hundreds of musicians around the UK and Ireland between the 1950s and the 2000s – often in collaboration with other prominent collectors of the time, including Alan Lomax, Hamish Henderson, Sean O’Boyle and Seamus Ennis."
"What is this website about?
This website focuses on the periods during the 1950s when Peter travelled around the UK and Ireland recording traditional musicians and local customs whilst working on the BBC’s ‘Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme’.
Peter documented these collecting trips in a number of reports written for the BBC at the time, of which 31 have been found in his archive. These daily summaries of who he recorded, when and where contain a great deal of valuable information that help us to make sense of what’s in his collection.
This website turns these pages into interactive images to present the story of Peter’s collecting trips in his own words, ‘attaching’ his sound recordings and photographs to his text. Over 650 performance events by 550 different performers are detailed in this way. This presents us with a unique insight into Peter’s work and provides an interesting way to explore his collection."