Isle of Wight Folk Music Archive

Dave and Anwyl's Music Web Site

Welcome to Dave and Anwyl's Music Web Site.  

Contact us via wholvac@yahoo.com   

Isle of Wight

This site seems to be getting ever bigger. We would love to add some old pictures. If anyone has the time and knows about websites do contact us.  This site really needs a revamp now!  Help with music, photos and words always welcome.

LATEST

See "1839 Legends and more". We would enjoy working with someone on this!

The Isle of Wight folk archive is made up of the original part done over 40 years ago and various snippets of mp3s and the words we have collated from a box of bits and bobs found recently. The IOW Song notes, Mixed Bag of Notes 1 & 2 etc etc at the end give you more clues about these songs.  This project is never over! Many thanks to Anwyl for all the typing and to so many people that have shown interest. We are amazed that folk music is such a big thing again on the island since our days booking guests at the Sloop Inn Folk Club. May it long continue.

We did record some fully on cassette back then. Here are the words and scores from the original in pdf.

We transferred the actual songs to mp3 and put them all up on the cloud.  We have a Dropbox connection. Here they are:

IOW Songs Part 1

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j82c3dtrqnupsbe/AACRaHbLjHWPP8LB52DySLeBa?dl=0

IOW Songs Part 2

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ c2cc2p3fnxd931p/AAC2nEzevWD_ WsFYCpE8UBr-a?dl=0

Here is a list of the completed ones in Part 1 and 2.

Part 1: Scrow Day, The Widow, Recruiting Sergeant, Summer, Newtown Randy, Man O War, Winter, My Maid, Shickshack Day, Shrove Song, Polly Oliver, Little Cappender.  Part 2: Sayings Song, Crossing the Bar, Spring, Wilderness Fox, Carter's Mate, Christmas Party, Autumn, Forsaken, Three Drunken Maidens, Home Harvest Evening, Jolly Waggoner, The Old Grey Hen, March of the Wight Men.

Clare lead singer , Dave guitar and vocal , Anwyl whistle, autoharp, and vocal. Martin recording

Many more were not fully recorded at the time.  From a mouldy pile of words, music and recordings we will try and make the songs more accessible. We will put on rough versions of the songs and hopefully steadily improve them one day. I have put notes up for the songs. Do put them through your own folk/musical process! 

It would be great if they could have a new life, maybe out of the traditional folk mould! Folk rock, cafe sound, bluegrass feel ... At the end we have put up a condensed version of music we made for a Brass Band or Symphony orchestra.

"Sea Songs of the Isle of Wight and Solent" A recent request.

The Dropbox Connection

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/skfdennyx4uhxpj/AAAr_pNtvmSZYAgRPVNnjf1Ja?dl=0

Notes on the CD

Words of the Sea Songs

The Isle of Wight Songs (yet to fully record)

mp3s (Snippets)

Clowns Courtship

Lumps of Pudden

Old Man Clothed in Leather

Parson of Chale

Roger and Dolly

Whistle Daughter Whistle

Words (.docx files)

Clowns Courtship

Old Man Clothed in Leather

Parson of Chale

Whistle Daughter Whistle

The Music

Notes  

Midwinter on the Isle of Wight  

Folk ballads and other songs  

Extra Notes Stone Black Long

The 1839 Legends and more

IOW music for Symphony Orchestra or Brass Band or ensemble. This is a very condensed version compiled by Martin who did the first recordings.  It contains a variety of tunes that tell a story / give a picture of the IOW.  The start for instance is your arrival on the island in a mist, it covers the island and a widow is waiting on the quay. The tunes are Scrow Day, The Widow, Recruiting Sergeant, Summer, Man O'War and the Reprise of Recruiting Sergeant and Man of War.  We intended to do a second and third part. Click Below

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vtxos1q41upr70n/IOW%201st%20Movement.mp3?dl=0

About us now.

We continue to play in Irish, Breton and Bluegrass groups in Brittany. We organise the French "Weekend of Musique Trad Americaine" WMTA festival. 

This website is divided into 2 sections: Isle of Wight and Music Mix.

For Music Mix:  Click Music to find information on  Irish, Bluegrass, Old Time, Cajun, Jug Band and Breton.