One of the strands of the Vaughan Williams’ Folk Project involved working with a range of schools and community groups across four counties to bring Vaughan Williams’ East Anglian song collections to life. A range of experienced workshop leaders worked alongside EATMT teaching Vaughan Williams’ material to a range of groups during the summer of 2023. Much of this work has been documented via film, podcast and audio and resources have been created that are free to use – either digitally or physically via Resource Boxes which have been made up for schools to use.
Schools
Millfield Primary School, Littleport, Cambridgeshire
Erin Brown & Nicky Stockman worked with Y5 pupils at Millfield Primary School, learning 2 songs and 2 dances (set to the music collected by Vaughan Williams) from Cambridgeshire. More info…
Woodside Primary Academy, Grays, Essex
Pupils from Y3 worked with leading tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark to learn a song collected in Essex in this school lead by folk and classical musician Ed Caines and a team of musical teachers. More info…
Tilney All Saint Primary, Tilney All Saints, Norfolk
Pupils from Y4/5/6 worked with Folk and Heritage Educator and Musician Nicky Stockman to learn a song from their village and 2 molly dances set to tunes collected by Vaughan Williams. More info…
Hills Rd VI Form College, Cambridge
Folk musician and tutor Stu Hanna of Megson taught the Hills Rd Folk Ensemble a tune collected in Tilney All Saints as part of their Spring Concert. More info…
Westley Middle School, Bury St Edmunds
Faye Gosling & Jake Lee Savage travelled to a school in West Suffolk to teach a song from Reydon in Suffolk to Year 6. More info…
Suffolk County Music Service, WCET Festival 2023
EATMT worked with Suffolk Music Service to identify a Vaughan Williams’ collected song to teach to over 2000 pupils at the annual WCET (Whole Class Ensemble Teaching) Festival across Suffolk in June 2023. Performances and a teaching resource film was created. More info…
Community Groups
More Than Melodeons
Singing tutor, Janet Koralambe worked with EATMT’s participants who had signed up to the Trust’s annual event of multi workshops in May 2023 to teach a version of the song “Lovely Joan” collected in Suffolk, arranged by Alex Bartholomew. More info…
Halesworth Harmony
Formerly Halesworth Community Choir, Halesworth Harmony is a community based choir meeting fortnightly usually at The Cut in Halesworth. Singing leader Janet Koralambe expressed an interest in getting her community choir involved in the project and they worked on three folk song arrangements over the Summer of 2023. More info…
University of Essex Choir
A choral society of acclaimed calibre and under the directorship of Ben Vonberg Clark, the choir learnt the song “Van Dieman’s Land” that Ben taught at Woodside Primary Academy but this time as an arrangement written by choir member Alex James for the choir and for the local Wivenhoe Youth Choir. More info…
Resources
The audio recordings of our Schools & Communities work within the Vaughan Williams’ Project can be heard via our Youtube Music account.
Watch the complete film created for FolkEast 2023 and Traditional Music Day – a compilation of most of these workshops with interviews of the tutors pieced together by our sound recorder Jake Lee Savage HERE.
We have built a Resources library – both available to download via our Resources pages to use in your school or with your community group or as a physical Resource Box. Our resource boxes not only come with pages as found online, but also with copies of several publications used throughout the running of this project and a number of CDs to listen to.
Get in touch with EATMT if you would like to use this free physical resource with your school or community group: info@eatmt.org.uk
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