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Seasonal songs on GlosTrad

Glos Christmas is not the only place to find seasonal songs from Gloucestershire.  Our sister site GlosTrad, has over 1300 songs and tunes of which a good many are related to the Christmas season.  Many of the items are the … Continue reading

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‘Single Gloucester’ Project

The ‘Single Gloucester’ project is being led by Gwilym Davies and others, and aims to bring together as many local songs and tunes as possible into one, easily accessible place. This will include Christmas Songs. If you would like to … Continue reading

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Planned for Christmas 2013

Thanks you to all who supported and used the site during the 2012 season. We are resting, but for the 2013 season we hope to add more carols and mumming information and hope to encourage the singing out of some of these traditional carols. … Continue reading

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Radio Gloucestershire Folk Carols

Sunday 23 December, at 1200-1300 (UK time) BBC Radio Gloucestershire (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiogloucestershire) will present a programme on Gloucestershire folk carols, on the Pete Wilson show.  If you can’t hear it at that time, there is a ‘Listen Again’ link on this … Continue reading

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‘Listen to the Songs’ new page

New this week – a page where you can hear all the archive recordings – like a juke-box. Why not sing-along and then look in the song and singer pages for the history of your favourites.   One was recorded from … Continue reading

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Diary 2012

If you are searching for Christmas events see the Christmas Diary page. We expect more events will be added, so if you are organising a Wassail, Mumming or Caroling event over the Christmas period, please let us know the details via … Continue reading

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Christmas 2012

After a few months off, we are starting to dust-off for 2012. We also hope some of these songs may be heard and sung and some mumming be played and mummed this Christmas. If you’d like to be involved, can … Continue reading

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Developments

Thanks you to all who supported and used the site during the 2011 Christmas season.  The posting below shows 64 traditional folk events that happened over the season – carol singing, wassailing and mumming. Since the launch of the site in … Continue reading

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The Christmas 2011 Season

Thu 1st Dec 19.00 Sue Ryder21.00 Kings Arms, Prestbury Gloucestershire Morris Mummers Sat 3rd Dec 11.00 & 12.00 Connect Christmas Fair, Bath Road, Cheltenham Winchcombe Mummers Sun 4th Dec 12.00 Prince Albert, Rodborough Rodborough Carols Tue 6th Dec 12.00 Gloucester … Continue reading

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