Albums and Downloads


			As an acknowleged authority on all things concerned with the Lancashire dialect Sid Calderbank has recorded a number of CD albums. Issued by Cock Robin Music, often in association with 'Lancashire Garland' they offer the listener a comprehensive experience of the differing approaches to this dialect tradition.Some of the albums relate to the Prepared Talks cited on the 'Talks about Lancashire' page. A full list of available audio CD's are listed below.

'Gooin' up wi 't' Layrocks!

17 Songs and Poems from Sid - Live and Studio recordings

Download ......Eawr Folk

Jone O'Grinfilt - The Song of the Century?

The Life and Times of Lancashire's most celebrated C19th Ballad, told as a chronology in words and song by Sid.

Download ......Joan O'Grifilt (Junior)

2012

Feb

6th - Leyland Historical Soc.- Lancs Cotton Famine - original cast!

8th - Beech Inn Chorlton

10th - Charity Lancs. Night ,Longton

14th - Pendle Forest Assoc.,Burnley

16th - Bury U3A

18th - Lancashire Night ,Accrington

21st - Rivington Barn Music hall

22nd - Afternoon Music hall, Rivington barn

28th - Halliwell Local History Society,Bolton

March

1st - Hyndburn Local History Soc. -Accrongton Library

3rd- Rivington Barn - Old Pequliar Band

9/10th - Co-op Festival, Crown, Worthington

10th evening - Belarus Aid Concert, Parbold

16th - Rivington Barn Music hall

April

11th - E Waugh Soc, Rochdale

12th - Queen St Mill ,Burnley

13/14th - Morpeth gathering

The Lancashire Cotton Famine

The Story of the Darkest Days of the Lancashire Cotton Industry - 1861 to 1865

Sid is joined by Mike Bartram, Mark Dowding, and Mary & Norman Wilson

Download.....Further Growth in Lancashire and Liverpool

A Lancashire Garland

A Celebration of Lancashire Dialect Writers

Sid & Liz Calderbank with Mark Dowding

Download....Extract 'Tummus & Meary' by Tim Bobbin

An Afternoon with Edwin Waugh

A Live Show by Sid , with Mark Dowding, of a performance given by Waugh to a Literary and Scientific Association in Ilkley in 1875

Download....Extract 'The Old Woman's Mug'

The Poets and Poetry of Victorian Blackburn

A live recording from March 2011 at Mellor Brook Community Centre of a necessarily short trip through the lives and works of just some of Blackburn's 19th century poets and authors.

Download.... Extract 'Where are the Blackburn poets gone?'

To order these fine albums go to the 'Contact Sid ' page for details.