Links

Carolling Traditions

Kilmore Carols, Wexford, Ireland

• RTE Archives: http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/922-christmas-tv-past/287756-kilmore-carols/
• Ask About Ireland : http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/traditions-and-customs/the-kilmore-carols/
• The Hymns and Carols of Christmas : http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/Wadding_Devereux/christmas_carols_of_waddinge_and.htm

Plygain, Wales

LINKS
to other Carol sites and information

• Local Carols in South Yorks. and North Derbyshire
  Updated annually with details of times and venues of local carols. See the Calendar maintained here.

 

• Christmas broadcasts and other Announcements
  Latest information and Noticesregarding the current year's carolling around Sheffield.
   

• Garland Films
  Garland Films has issued DVDs of all of the Festivals of Village Carols since 1996.
   

• South Riding Folk Arts Network
  The South Riding Folk Arts Network is a website that brings together news, events and information about the folk arts in Sheffield and surrounding areas.

• Bradford on Avon Carollers
  The site of the Bradford on Avon Carollers who sing traditional 'village' carols in the pubs of Bradford on Avon.

 

• Glen Rock Carolers
  Carolers from Glen Rock in York County, Pennsylvania, USA. The Glen Rock Carolers sang at the 2002 Festival of Village Carols, and are due back again this year, 2012.
   

• Gloucestershire Christmas
  A site devoted to Gloucestershire Christmas traditions, with a list of carols (with music), and a list of events (carol singing, mummers plays and wassailing).

 

• Odcombe Carols
  Odcombe is a small Somerset village, where a carolling tradition has survived. The carollers from Odcombe sang at the 2004 Festival of Village Carols. Currently this link appears inoperative.

 

• Plygain Singing
  Article on the National Museum of Wales about the welsh tradition of Plygain carol singing. There are links to other sites here.
   

  • Parti Fronheulog
    sang at the 2004 Festival of Village Carols.

 

• Cornish Carols
   

  • Cornish Carols - A Tradition For The World
     

  • Cornish Carols - Cornwall County Council article
    There are several sites describing carolling traditions in Cornwall, these two giving a great deal of information and sources of song materials.

 

• West Midlands Carols
  Several local Midlands carols are available here.

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• Chris Metheral, Garland Films : http://www.garlandfilms.co.uk/
• Derek Schofield, Photography :