Jackie Oates, Catch Me If You Can (Dorset folksong); William Barnes

BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, 22 February, 2019,  Petroc's classical alternative

Heard on Radio 3 this morning, Catch Me If You Can (YouTube Video)


https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/c9f655f6-d30b-421e-adb2-95f8304be8b5

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002ncc

An attractive interpretation of the old Dorset folksong, Hammond D. 832 and D.564, collected in Upwey in 1907 and in South Perrott 1906.

Lyrics in "The Wanton Seed", The English Folk-Dance and Song Society.

The Joy of Living, CD, Jackie Oates

"Jackie’s seventh studio album, covers an intensely personal period of her life, in which she celebrated the birth of her daughter Rosie and bid an emotional and loving farewell to her beloved father. Recorded at home in Jackie’s kitchen (with baby Rosie in attendance) The Joy of Living features songs made famous by folk greats including Ewan McColl, Lal Waterson and Davey Steele, as well as carefully picked songs from contemporary artists such as John Lennon and Darwin Deez – all interpreted in Jackie’s inimitable style". More about Jackie Oates

The Radio 3 programme also featured Alan Chedzoy reading William Barnes' The geate a-vallen to and Ralph Vaughan Williams' setting of Linden Lea, sung by John Shirley-Quirk.

I had quite forgotten that February 22 was William Barnes' birthday. He was born in Bagber, Dorset, on 22 February, 1801.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/4f3b96ed-f1f1-4a68-be73-0e0657837096

  

  

There are other lovely folk-songs sung by Jackie Oates on YouTube. and Spotify


The Sweet Nightingale

Jackie Oates - Hyperboreans LIVE

The Trees They Are so High

For interest:

The Trees They Do Grow High - A version of the last song, sung by David Penfold, recorded by Ralph Vaughan Williams on a wax cylinder in 1907

EFDSS Cylinder No.49.  British Library Sounds.