TONY WALES with guitar SUSSEX FOLK SONGS and BALLADS LP BOOKLET Folkways #8348
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Jun 18, 2025 Sold Date
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LABEL: FOLKWAYS RECORDS FG 3515 DEEP GROOVE LABEL

condition of record: VG+

condition of cover: VG+ 

w. BOOKLET VG; tear on top left

Tony Wales

Obituary: A musician who explored the traditions and customs of Sussex and wrote folk songs, as well as more than 40 books on village life. In 1957, Tony Wales, accompanied on guitar by fellow Horsham resident Peter Baxter recorded the first album of traditional Sussex folk songs for the New York-based Folkways records label. It was part of a life during which Tony, who has died aged 82, explored the traditions and customs of his native county, and wrote more than 40 books on village life and folk songs. During the 1960s and 70s he worked for the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

In 1958 he started the first folk song club in Sussex - the Horsham Songswappers - which still runs today. He welcomed anybody and everybody to contribute. In 1960 he started the Horsham folk festival, which ran for several years.

From 1958 until well into the 1980s he ran a barn dance band called the Derrydowners. Again based in the Horsham area, they were in great demand for Saturday night dances. Each dance would start with Tony hitting a wooden block four times, unless it was a waltz, when it would be hit only three times.


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