IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

The show celebrates the power of ballads – by which I do not mean the Power Ballads of stadium rock with their heavy drumming ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Though there's nary a kilt in sight, we have two Scottish companies in town: The National Theatre of Scotland at Santa Monica's Broad Stage and Glasgow's Visible Fictions at The Wallis in Beverly ...

1. Translated from the Originals, by R. C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M. D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860. 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. 2. By ROBERT ...

In the auld Scottish ballad “Tam Lin,” the title character is a knight in a terrible spot. He’s been captured by the fairies and expects to be sacrificed this very Halloween, when their queen pays her ...

Aria Entertainment & KT Producing have today announced the London premiere of major new folk musical Ballad Lines, which will run for eight weeks at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 23 January - 21 ...

The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...

Sung by Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd. Table of contents The Broomfield hill. --The prickly bush or The maid freed from the gallows. --Johnnie O' Breadisley or Johnie Cock. --George Collins or Lady ...

"A selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr. Child ... prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection ...