Striding Edge

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Striding EdgeStriding Edge are now into their nineteenth year of playing ceilidh dances and concerts across Cumbria, North Lancashire and beyond.As ever, their combination of thrilling traditional music and clear and concise dance calling is proving a huge hit with audiences:"The ceilidh was a roaring success, loved by everyone young and old, your calling was spot on and the band were brilliant!"Borrowdale Johnny, released 21 September 20071. Borrowdale Johnny2. Kings Polka, The Buff & The Blue and Ford Park Polka3. Raffles Merrie Nite4. Moving Away5. Wrapped Between Borders6. Keswick Bonnie Lasses and The Green Ship7. Miss Gilpin's Song8. Beggar Boy Of The North9. High Water and We'll All Lye Together10. Poor Man's Mountains11. Greensleeves and The Moon & Seven Stars12. Trumpet Minuet, Get Old With Me and Charming Phyllis13. Exit Strategy, Yordas and TizzerThe album was inspired by the ballad 'BORROWDALE JWOHNNY' composed by Robert Anderson, the bard of Cumberland, in the 19th C. It tells the tale of Johnny, who leaves Borrowdale amidst gossip, to seek his fortune in 'The Big City', an eternal and familiar theme in any century.The songs take the listener on a journey that skips up and down the centuries, through the work of 18th& 19th C. Cumbrian writers such as Suzanna Blamire and Robert Anderson, to modern ballads written by Mike Willoughby and John Hall. These songs explore the traditional themes of ambition and self-determination, with an enduring sense of place and history. The Tunes have been sourced from manuscripts left by fiddle players residing in Westmorland, Cumberland or North Lancashire during the 18th and 19th centuries. These include William Irwin of Keswick and Elterwater, The Winder family of Wyresdale, The Browne family of Troutbeck and John Barnes of Abbeytown, nr. Wigton.

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