Kathryn Tickell and Friends BBC Proms

Hello. I'm Kathryn Tickell. I'm here on the steps of the Royal

Albert Hall ready for folk night at Hello and welcome to the Royal

Albert Hall. Tonight is folk night at the BBC Proms. CHEERING

It is 50 years since the death of Percy Grainger, maverick com poser

and collector of folk music from right around the world. He took

these tunes and create evocative and often surprising new pieces of

music. Those hallmarks could as easily be applied to tonight's star

Northumbrian piper, Kathryn Tickell. So, tonight, we'll hear medleys of

existing folk material plus plus arrangements by Percy Grainger and,

of course, new arrangements by Kathryn. Joining me stage already,

the northern sinfonia. Kathryn Tickell's band. Welcome conductor

John Harle, June Tabor and, of course, Kathryn Tickell.

# As I was walking one morning in # Down by the green bushes I

chanced for to stray # I met a fair fair maiden and

charming was she # Down by the green bushes she

chances to meet me # Oh why are you loitering, my

predy made? # I wait for my true love, she did

# If I be your true love oh will you agree

# To leave your own sweet heart and marry with me?

# I'll give you fine beavers and fine kill canen gowns

# I'll give you fine petticoats flounced to the ground

# I'll give you fine clothing and rich you shall be

# If you'll leave your own sweetheart and marry with me

# I don't want your beavers nor your fine silken hose

# I'm not such a fool as to marry for clothes

# But if you'll prove constant to you I'll be true

# And I'll leave my own true love and marry with you

# Come let us be going kind Sir, if you please

# Come let us be going from under these trees

# There's my sweet heart a calling down yonder I see

# Down by the green bushes where he voied to meet me

# And when he came there and he found she was gone

# He's looked all around him like a man quite forlorn

# She's gone with some other proved faithless to me

# Oh do you green bushes wherever says he

# I'll be like some schoolboy spending my whole time in play

# No false-hearted young girl to stand in my way

# No fals-hearted woman to serve me so soon

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# So adieu you green bushes, I'll Thank you.

Thank you very much. And welcome to this late night prom celebrating

the music of Percy Grainger, particularly his settings of folk

music. And in a bit of a role reversal, it is not just the

classical composer being inflow epbsed by traditional folk music.

In this here you've traditional folk musicians being inspired by

the music of Percy Grainger. Skom of those traditional tunes that he

pinched, we've pinched them back. I hope he would have approved. We're

going to continue now with a quartet of my friends from Northern

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Sinfonia playing Grainger's Molly One of the things I particular love

about Grainger is just the emotional depth and intensity of

his music. That's particularly true in his sea shanty settings. In

Shallow Brown, you can really hear the yearning and the loss of the

woman that's watching as Herman is taken further and further away from

her by the sea. And Grainger was always very conscious and very

aware of the people he collected his songs from. He was interested

in them, their personalities, characteristics, their styles of

singing. I think the Shallow Brown arrangement mirrors the intensity

with which he heard a sailor from Dartmouth first singing this song.

He would have sung it with intensity. With sea shanties, you

don't tend to sing them lightly. They are work songs. They are not

# Round the bay of Mexico # Oh around the bay of Mexico

# Where Mexico is the place that I belong in

# Round the bay of Mexico # When I was young and in me prime

# Way up Suzie, pretty girls came around the bay of Mexico

# Oh, around the bay of Mexico # Way up, Mexico is the place that

I belong in # Round the bay of Mexico

# Way up Suzie, comb their hair with a kipper backed bone.

# Round the bay of Mexico.# All around the bay of Mexico

# Way up Suzie, Mexico is the place that I belong in

# Round the bay of Mexico # But now I'm old and going grey

# Way up suez y, pretty girls walk the other way

# Round the bay of Mexico # Oh, all around the bay of Mexico

# Way up Suzie, Mexico is the place that I belong in

# Round the bay of Mexico # Yeah, Mexico is the place that I

belong in # Round the bay of Mexico #

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# Shallow, oh, shallow brown # Shallow brown don't deceive me

# Shallow, oh shallow brown # You're going away across the

ocean # Shallow, oh shallow Brown

# You're going away across the ocean

# Shallow, oh, shallow Brown # You're never be my heart's de

vogs # Shallow, oh, shallow Brown

# You'll never be my heart's devotion

# Shallow, oh shallow Brown # When you return my heart is

burning # Shallow, oh shallow Brown

# For your return my heart is burning

# Shallow, oh shallow Brown # Shallow Brown you're going to

leave me # Shallow, oh shallow Brown

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# Shallow Brown, don't neer deceive # And I leave you

# Shallow, oh, shallow Brown # Found a way to leave you

# Shallow, oh shallow Brown Master's going to sell me

# Shallow, oh, shallow Brown # Sell me to a Yankee

# Shallow, oh, shallow Brown # Sell me for a dollar

# Shallow, oh shallow Brown # Great big Yankee dollar

# Shallow, oh shallow Brown Fare thee well, Juliana

# Shallow, oh, shallow Brown # Love you Juliana

# Shallow, oh, Shallow Brown # Found a way to leave you

# Shallow, oh, shallow Brown # Found a way to leave you

# Shallow, oh, Shallow Brown That was a very wonderful song from

June Tabor. We were all looking forward to tonight's proms but that

little group of shanties, I've been so desperate to hear that. I knew

it was goings to be good. I loved it. Oh, anyway, getting all

overcome! Dear me. It's funny, it's like I can almost sense the

presence of Percy Grainger here. I can imagine him thinking to himself,

hmm, imagine a concert with an unaccompanyied folk sing er,

Northumbrian piper, fiddle player, northern sinfonia from the Sage

Gateshead. The BBC Singers popping in because they happen to be in the

area and a fearful bunch of fraternal folk singers from

Teesside! WHOOPING All on stage at the same time. He

would have loved it. But can you imagine what he might have written

for all of us to play together? It possibly would have been something

along the lines of the scotch Strathspey reel conducted by John

Harle. Before we get to that moment, we're going to do another

stratsspai reel set for you just to get you in the mood. Stratsspai

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Way ho and up she rises # Early in the morning

# What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Ml # What shall we do in

the drunken sailor? # Way Ho and up she rises

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# Way Ho and up she rises, early in What shall we do with the drunken

sailor # Way Ho up she rises, early in the

# Way Ho, and up she rises, # Way Ho and up she rises

# Early in the morning # Way Ho and up she rises

# Way, Ho and up she rises, # Way Ho and up she rises

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# What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Ml # Put him in the lock up

# Early in the morning # Hey ho and up she rises

# Put him in the lock up CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

What a wonderful fusing of musical words. An evening I'm sure Percy

Grainger would have loved. Kathryn Tickell and her band, the wonderful

June Tabor, the men's voices of the BBC Singers and the Northern

Sinfonia leader and the conductor John Harle.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Well, complete with some wonderful

clog dancing from the accordion player Amy Thatcher, that really is

it from folk night at the BBC Proms. We'll be back next Friday with Brah