From: "Rosemary Tawney" <tawney_at_britishlibrary_dot_net>

Date: 19 August 2006 12:38:19 BDT

"CELEBRATING CYRIL" will be held on Saturday 14th April 2007 at Cecil Sharp

House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY - to remember the life and work

of Cyril Tawney, who died in April 2005, and to raise funds for the

preservation of his archive of writing, field recordings and folk

memorabilia, which will be housed in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

in Cecil Sharp House, which is the headquarters of the English Folk Dance

and Song Society. Among the many friends and colleagues taking part will be

Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, Louis Killen, Mike Waterson, Shep Woolley,

Roy Harris, Doc Rowe, Martyn Wyndham-Read and Iris Bishop, Roy Clinging, Les

Barker, Tim Laycock, Heather Wood, and a contingent from the West of

England, including the Dartmoor Pixie Band with their caller Sarah Bazeley,

Jim Causley, Ed Rennie, Tim van Eyken, Hanging Johnny, The Claque and Graham

O'Callaghan. In the afternoon, a Westcountry Revel with entertainment by the

Westcountry performers including dancing to the Dartmoor Pixie Band, will

highlight Cyril's strong regional connections. Following this, Shep Woolley

and friends will present "Hands to Dance and Skylark", Shep's programme

about Cyril's seminal work on the traditional songs of the modern Royal

Navy. The bill for the evening concert will include many of England's

leading performers of traditional songs and music. Throughout the day Doc

Rowe's audiovisual exhibition, which documents aspects of Cyril and his

work, will be on display and there will be ample opportunity to socialise at

singarounds and in the bar.

General enquiries to jsteel_at_clara_dot_co_dot_uk

Afternoon (12 - 6.30pm) £12;

Evening Concert (8 - 11pm) £15;

Combined ticket £25.

Tickets will be on sale in October from:

"Celebrating Cyril"

c/o English Folk Dance and Song Society

Cecil Sharp House

2, Regent's Park Road

London NW1 7AY

Cheques payable to "EFDSS". Envelopes to be marked "Celebrating Cyril".

For credit card payments contact EFDSS: Telephone 020 7485 2206 or email: