folkbluesnbeyond

 

                                             Photo by John Routledge

Bill's Musical History:

 

http://www.freewebs.com/folkbluesnbeyond/Bill Musical Family TRee.doc

What we play and sing:(always out of date)

http://www.freewebs.com/folkbluesnbeyond/Songfile 07 2.doc

http://www.freewebs.com/folkbluesnbeyond/Tune Sets 03.doc

With so much material we tend to be selective and practise  what we need for a particular event, or according to our mood at the time.

Bill  is happy to be called upon to substitute in local ceilidh bands either on rhythm guitar,or melodeons and accordion on the basis of a set of mutually agreed tunes for dancing.

Some dance notation and set lists which local callers have used with Instep are posted at

http://www.esnips.com/web/CeilidhEnglishCountryDanceResource?docsPage=1

a mixture of material in style, age, and merit but a snapshot of what we do.

FREE MUSIC/DEMOS

Rather than make a vanity CD I have posted some 'front room' recordings for 'educational' purposes on

http://www.esnips.com/web/FolkBluesnBeyondSharedrecordings

mainly folk and sundry origin

http://www.esnips.com/web/FolkbluesnbeyondCountryBluesandBluegrass

the title speaks for itself

http://www.esnips.com/web/CoversPopJAzz

as does that

 

and for archive recordings of Last Resort Ceilidh BAnd

http://www.esnips.com/web/LastResortCeilidhBand

If there turns out to be a market for high production value reworking let me know, please post feedback anyway.

http://www.esnips.com/web/Video-clips-folkbluesnbeyond

A collection of barely edited video clips which derive mainly from a couple of video tapes some of which which I was given from Graham Potter's estate after he died in 1988 and have personal resonance but also great historical presentation of the local folk scene as it was in the 80's. Latterly I have acquired a camera that does cheap and cheerful video so a bit of that as well. Also look for folkbluesnbeyond on youtube where there is more material.

In a spirit of sharing here are some bits n bobs which I use  and you may enjoy access to. These are mainly my working versions of the material and for home study use only. WIP is work in progress which are the tunes I have found and enjoyed but which are in development for me. ABC is a music writing programme easily available on the web which saves musical notation as text.

CEILIDH.ABC

I have PDF'd East Suffolk Morris Cotswold Tunes and posted them at

http://esnips.com/web/BillJohnstonTunebook

Meanwhile oddments are in

ESMMC.ABC

WIP.ABC

ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS

 of the road to extant obscurity to be found at

http://www.esnips.com/web/folkbluesnbeyondsPhotos