Thanks to the kind support of about 50 of his friends and contemporaries I am systematising the life and work of English folk musician Royston Wood (*1935 - +1990). Not only his musical ideas, but also his varied and colourful life - his close friend Heather Wood called it 'a life well lived' - inspired me to write a biography about him. Furthermore I am collaborating with Wood's daughter Hannah on the archive release Love Remains: a mini-anthology of traditional love songs sung unaccompanied by Royston.
Royston was also singer in the English unaccompanied folk trio Swan Arcade, who were active between 1971 and 1991. I assist Davoc Bradley - the son of the band's founders Dave and Heather Brady - in putting together a website about the band. The manifold sources we have pieced together not only convey a sense of the group, but also of a club and festival scene that is very inspiring, and a lot different - a lot less commercial and marketing-oriented - than today's average.
The website will launch this summer.
Der lothringische Pfarrer Louis Pinck (* 1873 - +1940) ist in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren mit einem Edison-Bell-Phonographen über das Lothringer Land gefahren und hat uralte Bäuerinnen und Bauern beim Singen aufgenommen. Die Lieder wurden über 25 Jahre sukzessive in der fünfbändigen Publikation Verklingende Weisen publiziert.
Hier ist ein Artikel, den ich über Pinck geschrieben habe, und hier sind Scans der Liederbücher abrufbar.