Welcome to potiphar's apprentices' web pages
The celebrated English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams collected over 100 folk songs in Essex, and many more in East Anglia and the southern counties. He was inspired by these old songs, using them in his own innovative work, publishing some in the Folk Song Journal and using many of the tunes in the English Hymnal of 1906. He wrote that "the job of the folksong collector is to return the songs once more to the mouths of the people."
potiphar's apprentices are a new musical group whose aim is help return some of the songs to the English community.
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For downloads of songs from Adrian May's latest CD click here.
To buy the potiphar's apprentices' first CD Return to Ingrave please send a cheque for 6.50 pounds sterling to: Sue Cubbin, 19 London Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4QW, UK. For more details click here
The apprentices:
Adrian May is widely known in folk clubs and festivals as a songwriter, both as a soloist and with Spring Chickens. He sings, plays guitar and melodeon and has recorded several albums, not only with Spring Chickens, but also Metric Foot and solo. His most recent
John and Sue Cubbin have performed as a duo for some years. They have a background in traditional English song and dance music, American folk and oldtime, and morris dancing. Sue sings and plays fiddle, John plays guitar and banjo and is a morris dancer. Sue has worked at the Essex Record Office and wrote That Precious Legacy: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Essex Folksong (Essex Record Office 2006.)
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