Gypsy, Roma, Traveller
Music and Dance, Page 2

       Traditional folk music web sites

• Listen to some songs from travelling people from the North East and Scotland on the Travelling Folk page of NEFA - the North East Folklore Archive
• There are song lyrics and a long article about Gypsy songs, in the booklet accompanying a CD called 'Here's luck to a man ...an anthology of Gypsy songs and music from South-East England' on the site Musical Traditions, the Internet magazine for traditional music throughout the world
• You can find many more mentions of Gypsy music on the Musical Traditions site, especially if you use Google to search the site

At Google, enter the following, exactly as written below, in the Google search box:
 

gypsy site: http://www.mustrad.org.uk

• For even more results, repeat the search but enter the word 'travellers' instead of the word gypsy. Try a third search using the word roma and a fourth using the word romany
• The EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) online shop has a recent CD called 'Traveller’s joy: songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005', a collection of over fifty songs with an accompanying twenty-track CD and supporting information about the music and the singers
• Another CD is 'Songs of the Travelling People', a collection of music and song selected from 'field' recordings made by the famous folk song collector Peter Kennedy between 1951 and 1968. Details are at The Living Tradition web site and at the Folk in Education web site
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