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in chronological order. <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">19.3.23 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="editor.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/editor.gif" TITLE="Editorial" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD>Additions to an old review.  Two new Steve Gardham articles.  New George Gardiner article.  Magazine and Records - present and future.  Half Price Sale.  Season's Greetings 2020  Wonderful new Article.  MT Records website.  A Little Box of Delights.  Labour of Love Database - final data update.  New Email Addresses.  Musical Traditions Records.  Catch It, Bottle It, Paint It Green (MTCD379) now available.  MT Records and Magazine - the future.  New MT Records release.  American Songs in the British Folk Repertoire.  US Postal Rates 50% rise!  MT Records - a History + Labour of Love database - with new data.  Wait Till the Clouds Roll By (MTCD518-0) now available.  An Old World/New World Trilogy. 2019-20 CDs available as Downloads.  New MT Records release: George Belton - A True Furrow to Hold (MTCD378). <TD ALIGN=right>23.3.24 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="ed_full.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/ed_full.gif" TITLE="All Editorials" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">A more-or-less complete compilation of past Editorial pieces in chronological order <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">20.12.20 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="articles.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/articles.gif" TITLE="Articles" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">338 Articles, including all the 'paper' ones. <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">13.2.24 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="arts_abc.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/arts_a-z.gif" TITLE="Articles A to Z" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">As above, but in alphabetical order <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">13.2.24</ <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="enthuse.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/enth.gif" TITLE="Enthusiasms" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">89 Shorter articles on subjects of interest, concern or outrage! <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">28.6.21 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="reviews/r_index.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/reviews.gif" TITLE="Reviews" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle"><IMG SRC="graphics/newflag.gif" ALT="New" WIDTH=44 HEIGHT=16 ALIGN=texttop> of records, books, etc. <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">3.10.23 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="news.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/news.gif" TITLE="News" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">and Comment from all over ... <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">31.1.22 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="letters.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/letters.gif" TITLE="Letters" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Have your say! <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">18.1.22 <TR> <TD><a href="records/catalog.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/records.gif" TITLE="Made-to-Order service" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD>Musical Traditions Records Made-to-Order service <TD ALIGN=right>3.1.22 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="download/covers.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/rec_down.gif" TITLE="MT Records Downloads page" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD>The MTDL downloadable CDs page.  View and buy downloadable versions of the complete catalogue. <TD ALIGN=right>18.3.21 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="obits.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/obits.gif" TITLE="Obituaries" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle"><IMG SRC="graphics/newflag.gif" ALT="New" WIDTH=44 HEIGHT=16 ALIGN=texttop> Notices of deaths and, where we have them, obituaries. <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">6.10.22 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="mondegre.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/mond.gif" TITLE="Mondegreens" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Mis-heard or mis-understood phrases in folk songs <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">20.3.17 <TR VALIGN=top VALIGN="middle"> <TD><A HREF="articles/dungheap.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/dung.gif" TITLE="A Veritable Dungheap" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Dungbeetle's ballad burrowings - by Steve Gardham <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">15.11.20 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="discos/tradisco.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/tradisco.gif" TITLE="Traditional Records Discography" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Making good progress towards a massive project <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">21.4.18 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="discos/address.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/address.gif" TITLE="Useful Addresses" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Record labels, distributors, second-hand, etc. <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">12.10.08 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="discos/discog.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/topdisco.gif" TITLE="Topic Records Discography" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Up to date - and virtually complete <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">1.5.14 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="votp.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/votp.gif" TITLE="Topic's Voice of the People" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">The complete Voice of the People suite <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">15.9.02 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="links.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/links.gif" TITLE="Links" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">to many other sites of interest <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">3.5.12 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="sessions.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/sessions.gif" TITLE="Sessions" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">Where to go for a tune or a song when far from home <TD ALIGN=right VALIGN="middle">15.11.21 <TR VALIGN=top> <TD><A HREF="smallads.htm"><IMG SRC="graphics/s_ads.gif" TITLE="Small Ads" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=30></A> <TD VALIGN="middle">For Sale, Barter, Wanted - 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Musical Traditions Internet Magazine is likely to be archived by the UK Web Archiving Consortium at some future time; authors are advised that, by contributing to this magazine, they are agreeing to such archiving. Footnotes in Articles and Reviews are indicated by <IMG SRC="graphics/r_note.gif" ALT="Like this!" WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=11> - place cursor on the asterisk to see the text. Photo details / credits are revealed in the same way. For Tablet users (thus having no cursor) 'tap and hold' reveals the information. <TABLE ALIGN=center BORDER=0 WIDTH=570><TR><TD><CENTER> <A HREF="sound/canny.ra"><IMG SRC="graphics/listenra.jpg" TITLE="play Sound Clip - Paddy Canny playing Poll Ha'penny" WIDTH=20 HEIGHT=38 BORDER=1 ALIGN=right></A>Our older Sound Clips are Real Audio 3 or MP3 - click these icons when you see them. Our newer MP3 Sound Clips are shown by the name of the song or tune being displayed in underlined bold italic red text.  Click the name and your installed MP3 player will start. </TABLE> Some of the magazine is displayed in a compact form using the Arial Narrow TrueType font - but only if you have it installed on your computer. Arial Narrow (in Normal, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic faces) is available here as a 335Kb Zipped <A HREF="narfont.zip">download</A>. We remain grateful for support from fROOTS Magazine down the years. <H3>Correspondence:</H3> Rod Stradling, 1 Castle Street, Stroud, Glos GL5 2HP, UK E-mail: rod@stradling.eu - or, if you don't mind the fact that he's getting a bit deaf ... Phone: 01453 759475 or New Mobile: 07405763536 Site designed and maintained by Musical Traditions Web Services   Updated: 23.3.24 </HTML>