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Brigg Fair​/​The Blacksmith's Courtship

from Fortified by Loreley

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Brigg Fair is probably the most famous arrangement of the Percy Grainger collection, thanks to the Joseph Taylor recording from Lincolnshire in 1905. This recording survives, but Taylor could only remember the first two stanzas, so the last three were written by Grainger to extend the tune. We thought thematically that it flowed well into the second of these songs, a Herefordshire song collected by Vaughan Williams in 1909 from a Mrs Ellen Powell. Many versions exist thanks to Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, and Cecil Sharp, all of whom put the lyrics to many famous existing tunes.

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from Fortified, released December 5, 2015
(Traditional arranged by Percy Grainger and Simon James Chisholm/Traditional arranged by Simon James Chisholm)

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Loreley Reading, UK

Sheffield-based duo pairing traditional folk lyrics to modern musical arrangements. Third album, "The Frozen North", released March 2017.

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