Sixteen singers arrived for the first official Chichester group session at The Chichester Inn last Thursday. We welcomed newcomers Lyn and Chris and started off the evening with Rosebuds in June, Three Maidens, and Sussex Wedding Song. We looked at singing some appropriate songs for the first SDFS event of the year at the Food and Folk Festival so included The Turnip Hoer, Rolling in the Dew, The Nightingale Song, Where Stormy Winds Do Blow, Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun and Country Life. At the request of our newer members who didn't know them, we sang the two Kipling songs: A Smuggler’s Song and Oak, Ash and Thorn. In between we jollied up the evening with Ale, Glorious Ale, Gooch's Beer, Twanky Dillow, West Sussex Drinking Song and finished off the evening with Rolling Home before doing just that!
Welcome to our website for singers who want to learn and sing traditional and new South Downs folk songs, sung in the traditional way. "Put another barrel on, landlord, and pull a pint for me! The ale here in Sussex is the best we all agree!"
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