SDFS at W&DLM Historic Life Weekend: Fire & Light

Update 29th October 2019: Please note the time of our first performance has been changed to 11.45am to allow time for more people to arrive.

Update 29th October 2019: Please wear your lanyard, if you have one, and warm clothing, a light-shower day is predicted, so we will either sing inside or outside North Cray (first red-washed house as you enter the market square).

As there will be as many singers as at the Christmas Market, please follow Emily's requests to form a compact semi-circular group focussed on her, so we can present the songs at their best.

Your name will be on a list for free entry, please gather at North Cray at least 15 minutes before each performance start time.

The two approximately 35-minute performance times have been agreed at 11.00am 11.45am and 1.30pm either side of lunch, the day's programme is on the organiser's website (link below).

You will note smuggling is mentioned at the Toll House so we might add Kipling's A Smuggler's Song to the sets.

John C.

Sunday 3rd November 2019
Weald & Downland Living Museum, Singleton, PO18 0EU

This is a new event this year under the Historic Life theme, demonstrating the considerable contrasts of how in the past the majority of the populace had to prepare for the darker, hungrier cold months both in gathering adequate fuel stocks and providing various forms of light from the rendering of natural products.

Organiser's website

The programme for the weekend will not be finalised until a couple of weeks before the event and our song set times and other details will will be posted here.

Set List - kindly provided by Amaryllis

1. Oak, Ash & Thorn : E
2. The Woodcutter’s Song : B
3. The Bee-Boy’s Song : E – A
4. The Turnip Hoer : B
5. Where Stormy Winds Do Blow : A
6. Ale, Glorious Ale : E
7. Poor Froze-out Gardeners : Db
8. Hey Ho Winter’s Snow : round
9. On Sussex Hills : A
10. Life of a Man : B
11. The Fields Lie Silent : F
12. The Coppers’ Christmas Song* : B

* Last Verse – replace the word CHRISTMAS with WINTER.

John C.