BRIGG FAIR

Created on 09/10/2021
Latest update on 04/07/2023

Artist: Joseph Taylor
Author: traditional
Label: Gramophone
Year: 1907

Percy Grainger recording (wax cylinder) in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Reissued on Leader-lp Unto Brigg Fair in 1972. See also Lord Bateman en Died For Love.

Covers:

1908:

Frederick Delius [as Brigg Fair, an English Rhapsody; orchestral variation on this original tune; Joseph Taylor was invited to attend the first public performance (and joined in singing)]

1955:

Isla Cameron [on World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - England in the Alan Lomax Series]

1956:

A.L. Lloyd

1964:

Shirley Collins

1967:

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

2013:

June Tabor

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