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ARTISTS A - F
Thomas Allen
Thomas Allen (baritone) was born in Seaham Harbour and studied singing and organ at the Royal College of music. He has performed with La Scala in Milan, the State Operas of Vienna and Munich, Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera. With Royal Opera Covent Garden, he has toured America with Die Zauberflöte, and Japan with Don Giovanni and Le Nozze Di Figaro. He was awarded a knighthood in the 1999 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
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Robert Allen
Songs contributed to the Anthology:
A Canny Welcome
Ron Angel
(The) Chemical Workers’ Song
Cleveland Steel
Sheila Armstrong
Sheila Armstrong (soprano) was born in Ashington, Northumberland. After studying in Newcastle and the Royal Academy of Music, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award and the Mozart Prize in the same year. She has sang with Sadler’s Wells, Glyndebourne Festival, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as well as major festivals and tours throughout Europe, the Far East, the United States and Canada. She retired from professional performance in 1993.
Eric Boswell
Eric Boswell was originally from Wearside,
but lived the later part of his life in rural Northumbria. Perhaps his greatest commercial success was the Christmas children’s song Little Donkey, which has been recorded by many stars, including Gracie Fields, Nina & Frederick, and the Beverley Sisters.
He was a prolific composer, with many of his songs taking a hilarious look at life in the North East. Eric died in 2009.
Owen Brannigan
Owen Brannigan (bass) was born at Annitsford in Northumberland in 1908. He was originally a carpenter by trade, but studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He was a regular at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden, and recorded many Gilbert & Sullivan songs as well as favourites from his native North East. He died in 1973.
(The) Laidley Worm
Lavender’s Blue
The Plough Boy
Sair Fyel’d Hinny
Canticle
Canticle are a vocal octet directed by David Murray for the Northumbria Anthology.
(The) Angler’s Delight
(The) Banks Of Tyne
Hendon Banks
Lucy Gray Of Allendale
Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington
Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington was an important contributor to the North East song tradition in the first half of the 20th Century, both as a performer and a recording artist. He is probably best known for compiling anthologies of Tyneside songs.
(The) Cullercoats Fishwife And The Census Man
(The) Pawnshop’s Bleezin’
Suzannah Clarke
Suzannah Clarke (soprano) trained in Italy with Arrigo Pola, Pavarotti’s singing coach. She speaks Italian fluently and has won international competitions in Spoleto, Modena and Barcelona. She has performed at Opera Festivals in Batignano, Barbados and Wexford and sung leading rôles in many operas including The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute and Carmen. She has appeared as Principal Soprano with English National Opera and at La Scala, Milan.
(The) Barnard Castle Tragedy
Fourpence A Day
Going To Pawn
Old Crag Gate
Twee Match Lads
David Clelland
David Clelland was born in Gateshead and worked as an electrical tester for Reyrolle. He became the MP for Tyne Bridge in 1985.
(The) Socialist ABC
“I’ve been singing this song as a party piece for years, but I was surprised and delighted when the people from the Northumbria Anthology asked me to record it”, says David.
Terry Conway
Terry Conway was born in Hexham General Hospital, and, apart from a short sojourn in Southport when very young, has lived in Northumberland ever since. He worked for Northumberland County Council for many years, but has now ‘retired’ as a self-employed gardener/handyman. Fortunately, he also finds time to write, perform and record songs. He’s an authority on Border Ballads.
(The) Eastern Allen Runs
Farewell Regality
Hawkhope Hill
(The) Kielder Hunt (with Liz Law)
Lizzie Storey (with Liz Law)
Graeme Danby
Graeme Danby was born in 1962 at Consett. He started singing at the age of six and his love of song took him to local music festivals, Newcastle Cathedral Choir and on to study at The Royal Academy of Music in London.
Graeme’s rich and powerful basso profundo has been heard all over Europe, including the prestigious La Scala Theatre in Milan. In Britain, he’s performed with English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Johnny Dickinson
Johnny Dickinson has been described as the most potent slide guitar player in the UK. His 2004 contribution to the Anthology is a fine set of musical interpretations of a selection of poetry written or collected by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Johnny's music perfectly complements the lyrics of the 19th Century poet in the acclaimed album Border Ballads.
Border Ballad
(A) Fragment of a Border Ballad
(A) Lyke Wake Song
May Janet
I Cross the Border
(A) Jacobite’s Farewell (1716)
(The) Jolly Beggar
No-Man’s Land
No-Man’s Land (part 2)
(A) Reiver’s Neck-Verse
There Gowans are Gay
(The) Winds
Judy Dinning
Judy Dinning is a singer/songwriter who was born and brought up in Hexhamshire and still lives near Hexham. She’s a classically trained singer, with a Diploma in Voice from the London College of Music, but her first love is for traditional music. She plays guitar, keyboards, Appalachian dulcimer, bodhran and percussion.
Ah, You, Me Hinny Bird (with The Hush)
Blow The Wind Southerly
(The) Cullercoats Fish Lass
Drunken Dolly
Felton Lonnen (with The Hush)
Fine Times
(The) Gallowgate Lad
Guard Yer Man Weel (with The Hush)
Here’s The Tender Comin’ (with The Hush)
(The) Hexhamshire Lass
Hughie The Graeme (with The Hush)
Little Johnny Robinson
(The) Miseries O' Shiftin'
Ne Wark
(The) Outlandish Knight
(The) Sandgate Dandling Song
(The) Snow It Melts The Soonest (with The Hush)
Water Of Tyne
Mike Elliott
Mike Elliott used to compère the folk club at the now demolished George and Dragon pub in Sunderland. He formed Northern Front with Ed Pickford and Nick Fenwick, and ran the Londonderry Nickelodeon. He’s worked as a singer, comedian, after dinner speaker and radio shock jock. He appeared in the box office success Billy Elliott.
(The) Banks Of The Dee
(The) Frolicsome Women Of Sunderland
Billy Fane
Billy Fane was born in Dinnington, Northumberland. He was an apprentice baker, but left to go to teaching college. He performed in folk clubs and acted in the TV series Byker Grove and the film Billy Elliott.
Bobby Shaftoe
Canny Aad Christmas
(The) Fishermen Hung The Monkey
(The) Fitter’s Tale
Sally Gee
(The) Sandgate Girl's Lament
(The) Shields Lass For Me
Winkle Pickin‘ Willie
Wor Nanny’s A Mazer
Songs contributed to the Anthology by Thomas Allen:
Billy Boy
Blaydon Races (with Sheila Armstrong)
Blow The Wind I Ho (with Sheila Armstrong)
Buy Broom Buzzems
Caa’ Hawkie
Canny Aad Sunderland
Cat Gut Jim The Fiddler
(The) Coal Owner And The Pitman’s Wife (with Sheila Armstrong)
(The) Collier’s Rant
Come You Not From Newcastle? (with Sheila Armstrong)
Cushie Butterfield
Dance To Yer Daddy
De'il Stick The Minister
Ee, Aye, Aa Could Hew
Elsie Marley (with Sheila Armstrong)
Footy Again’ The Waall
From An Inn
Gan Te The Kye
Green Bushes (with Sheila Armstrong)
It Was One Summer’s Morning (with Sheila Armstrong)
Madam, I Will Buy You (with Sheila Armstrong)
Jowl, Jowl and Listen
(The) Lambton Worm
(The) Lass Of Cockerton
Oh, I Hae Seen The Roses Blaa
(The) Pitmen’s Union
(The) Poacher’s Call
Rap Her To Bank
(The) Row Between The Cages
Sair Fyel'd Hinny
Sally Lee
Show Me The Way To Wallington
Whittingham Fair (with Sheila Armstrong)
Wor Geordie's Lost His Penka (with Sheila Armstrong)
Songs contributed to the Anthology by Sheila Armstrong:
Blaydon Races (with Thomas Allen)
Blow The Wind I Ho (with Thomas Allen)
(The) Bonny Fisher Lad
Children’s Song
(The) Cliffs Of Old Tynemouth
(The) Coal Owner And The Pitman’s Wife (with Thomas Allen)
Come You Not From Newcastle? (with Thomas Allen)
Died Of Love
Dol-li-a
Doon The Wagon Way
Elsie Marley (with Thomas Allen)
Green Bushes (with Thomas Allen)
It Was One Summer’s Morning (with Thomas Allen)
(The) Keel Row
Ma Bonny Lad
Madam, I Will Buy You (with Thomas Allen)
My Miner Lad
Of All The Youths
(The) Sandgate Lassie’s Lament
(The) Shoemakker
(The) Tyne Exile’s Lament
(The) Trimdon Grange Explosion
Whittingham Fair (with Thomas Allen)
Wor Geordie's Lost His Penka (with Thomas Allen)
Songs written by Eric Boswell included in the Anthology:
(The) Ballad Of Geordie Washington
Bird Fly High
(The) Blinkin' Eye Millennium Bridge
But It’s Mine
Everything Changes
Father’s On The Beer Again
(The) Forst Footin’ Song
(The) Frustrated Fishwife
(The) Gateshead Angel Of The North
(A) Geordie Love Song
(The) Ghost Of St Mary’s
(The) Girl From Outer Space
(The) Girl On The Cheviot Hills
(The) Good Old Bad Days
(The) Great Longbenton Leek
Hielan’ Chorus (trad. arr. & modified by Eric Boswell)
(I Can’t Help Hevin’ A Sort O’ Feelin’
I Got A Bun In The Oven
I Waited On The North Dock
I’ve Got A Little Whippet
In The Summer Of Last Year
Jenny Was There (Katie Was There)
Little Donkey
Lookin’ For A Girl
Mally Dunn
Mary Ann
Mary Lister
Maybe This Is Love
(The) MetroCentre
(The) Multiplication Song
My Gorgeous www.girl
North Of The Tyne
Ower Young To Be Married Yet
(The) Parting
Playin’ Hard To Get
The) Rain Started Falling
(The) Social Security Waltz
Supermarket Blues
(The) Summer Of Last Year
Sweet Waters Of Tyne
Take Me Up The Tyne
There’ll Be No One Else For Me
There’s More To Life Than Women And Beer
They Don’t Write Songs Like These
(A) Thousand Years From Now
Tyneside’s Where I Come From
Welcome To Geordieland
What’s Life All About?
Wi’ Me Pit Claes On
You Are For Me
You’ll Be Laughin’
Songs contributed to the Anthology by Graeme Danby:
Aad Stokesley Toon
(The) Ballad Of George Washington
(The Banks Of The Dee
(The) Blinkin’ Eye Millennium Bridge
Blow The Man Down
(The) Bold Miner
Broom, Green Broom
(The Hedger)
Hielan’ Chorus
Is There Owt Secure?
Katie Was There
Lament For The Widow
Little Donkey (with Gracie Fields)
Ma Canny Hinny (with Anne-Marie Owens)
Maybe This Is Love (with Valerie Reid)
My Sunderland Lad (with Claire Rutter)
Nitty Nora
(The) Old Fisherman’s Invitation
Ower Young To Be Married Yet (with Valerie Reid)
(The) Picnic Day
(The) Pitman’s Courtship
(A) Pitman’s Love Song
Playin’ Hard To Get (with Valerie Reid)
Sawdust Jack
(The) Ship Is All Laden
Somebody Stole Me Bottle (with Tim Healy)
(The) Tall Ships
(The) Tanfield Lea Silver Model Band
There’ll Be No One Else For Me (with Sarah Murphy)
Tyneside’s Where I Come From (with Valerie Reid)
What’s Life All About? (with Valerie Reid, Sarah Murphy & Paul Smith)
Woman, Charmin’ Woman (with Anne-Marie Owens)
The Yorkshire Volunteers’ Farewell To Stockton
You Are For Me (with Valerie Reid)
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