Traditional English fiddling and Morris dance (1928) | Sam Bennett [RESTORED]

Please see the introduction section of the video for information about Sam Bennett.
You can hear Sam Bennet singing several traditional ballads online, including
“Barbara Allen” www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongI...,
“Lord Lovel” www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongI... and
“Lord Bateman” www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongI... .
I uploaded his 1950 performance of “Blow away the Morning Dew” (Child 112) on my second channel • Blow Away the Morning ... . Here is the full recording of Sam Bennett singing to Peter Kennedy in 1950 sounds.bl.uk/World-and-tradit...
This is the official website of the Ilmington Morris Men ilmingtonmorrismen.org.uk/ and this link is the full video of the dance shown at 5:18 • Ilmington Morris Men -...
This short video shows Ilmington in the 1930s, including a clip of Ilmington choir • 1930s UK Countryside, ...
0:00 Introduction
0:45 "Pop Goes the Weasel"
1:35 Morris dancing demonstration - "Princess Royal"
2:09 "Constant Billy"
5:00 Ilmington today
I added artificial colour with an automatic online tool, and improved the audio to remove background noise. The technology is of course not completely accurate. For example, we can assume that at 1:37 he is wearing blue and yellow as in the image on the right.
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For more information about the video, please see the video description.
If you enjoyed this video, I'd recommend watching a video I uploaded of Norfolk singers Sam Larner and Harry Cox singing traditional songs czcams.com/video/WQVfPXFgO10/video.html

[@petermatten3315]

Love that he is wearing a traditional smockfrock.

[@dbentleyto95]

How wonderful to see these films

[@petergroverd6626]

Sort of a wonderful insight to musical folk history in England.

[@PlanetImo]

Thanks so much for sharing. I loved it - including the morris at the end, there. :¬D

[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)

[@madamemarmot]

Thanks so much for posting this treasure. 💖💖

[@PlanetImo]

Ahhhh. Singin his own dance accompaniment - Princess Royal I do belive!

[@TheFolkRevivalProject]

Ah of course. He even says "Princess Royal" beforehand but I couldn't work out what he was saying! I'll add it to the description so it will appear in the video "chapters".

[@PlanetImo]

@@TheFolkRevivalProject Oh cool!

[@EdwardBrackstoneFilms]

Englands good old days.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Haha