The Transports at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2017
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2017
- This 2017 retelling of Peter Bellamy's folk opera The Transports on the Bellstone stage features Matthew Crampton, The Youngun's, Rachael McShane, Nancy Kerr, Greg Russell, and Faustus.
Next festival: August 24 - 27 2018. Find out more at www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk
Oh Paul. Your work here is magnificent. I am heartbroken.
R.I.P Peter. Your work lives on .....
I watched with fascination at this stunning performance, was quite tearful at the end.
Great voices!
Thanks for this superb recording. The Transports moves me everytime I see and hear it.
An inspirational adaption of Peter's great work :-)
So pleased to have a chance to see it, missed the performance in Durham :(
Thanks for this video. Couldn't make the festival this year and regretted not seeing The Transports. So great to get the chance now!
I have been waiting for this to appear, it was a superb performance!!
Amazing. I grew up with a descendant of Henry Kable.
More. About 2012 I researched the ancestor of Janet Creasy whose family spoke of a mythical rogue, James Creasy. A family history search found him living in Streatham, listed in an Old Bailey trials index about 1817, condemned to death or transportation, because as the elder of two teenagers, he took the rap but the culprit who stole just a handkerchief got off with a 3 or 6 month sentence! Later, I seemed to have tracked James to Adelaide when he was over 100! Justice indeed, he outlived those who judged him back in 1817. Peter Turner.
I met Peter once, after a performance in Wells Next the Sea, about c.1969, as my first wife went to the same school in Fakenham. Then I saw him sing at Whitby Folk Festival in 1975, singing his sea shanty - with his usual gusto - enthusiastically! I have his two versions of The Transports which I regard as his major impact work. This seems a wonderful event to attend. Any more performances since 2017? Well done. Peter Turner.
Super performance many thanks, but the first minute or so is missing!
The story is based on an account of two convicts of the First Fleet, Henry Cabell and Susannah Holmes as given by Norfolk historian Eric Fowler. According to Fowler's research, which begins in 1783, young Henry Cabell receives a sentence of transportation for fourteen years for the burglary of a country house. Another youngster, Susannah Holmes, receives a sentence of transportation for an unrelated theft. They are imprisoned for three years (because Britain has recognised the United States and can no longer send convicts there) before being sent to New South Wales. While imprisoned they fall in love and produce a son. Refused permission to marry, Susannah (along with all the women) is to be sent alone in the First Fleet to Australia. When Susannah's son is refused passage at quayside a guard (John Simpson) takes pity on her and travels with the infant to London to appeal to the home secretary, Lord Sydney. Sydney, affected by the incident, orders that Cabell and Holmes should be reunited, married on English soil, and transported together with their son (although they were not married until their arrival in Australia). Cabell eventually becomes a constable in the new colony and enjoys commercial success.
I don't think Peter Bellamy would have been pleased with the overtly left wing bias of this version of his work. Why do lefties have to fuck everything up? We don't need a socialist history lesson, thank you. We can do our own research and draw our own conclusions without having it rammed down our throats. Peter Bellamy was rare among folk singers and musicians in general in not being a socialist. He was castigated for his Kipling ballads, as I remember, because Kipling was seen as an evil colonialist. Now he's being subsumed by the left. Very sad.