Audio file

Date recorded: January , 1954
Contributor(s): Performer: Stanley, Luke; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: ballad, Child ballad
Culture: English
Instruments: voice
Location: Barrow-On-Humber, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3350
Track Number: 9
Archive ID: T3350R09
Note: Child ballad No. 4 (as "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight").
Transcript:
Belongs to: Barrow-On-Humber 1/54
About the session: Recordings of the Plough Play (a Mummer's Play performed on Plough Monday, the first Monday after Twelfth Night) in Barrow-On-Humber. The cast is: Tom Fool: Frank Bell / Thrashing Blade: Wilfred Bell / Beelzebub: Jesse Mumby / Hopper Joe: Tom Stanley / Musical Jack: Bill Stanley (63 years old) / Besom Bet: Roy Lawrence / Hobby Horse: Luke Stanley (22 years old) / Ploughboy: Maurice Broughton / Dame Jane: Percy Housam / Recruiting Sergeant: Kenneth Bell / Lady: Norman Bilton / Indian King: Jack Martin / Doctor: Joseph Wilson / Foreign Traveller: Rowland Thompson.
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