Some Baring-Gould links

This small collection of links will take you to other sites of interest because of their connection to Sabine Baring-Gould or to folk song

The Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society ( http://www.sbgas.org/ )

The Society was wound up in 2019, but the website is maintained in reduced form as a reference. The newsletters and Transactions of the Society contained a great deal of information about Sabine Baring-Gould and the greater part of the publications are available on the website.

Wren Music ( http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/ )

The community arts organisation based in west Devon that has played a major part in popularising Baring-Gould in recent years. Visit this site to find information on the Baring-Gould Song School and on the Baring-Gould Folk Festival.

The Traditional Song Forum ( http://www.tradsong.org/ )

An organisation for those interested in traditional song as researchers or as performers. The website contains useful reference information as well as news about events related to traditional song

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library ( www.vwml.org)

The VWML is a uniquely useful reference source for folk song in England. Their digital song database of folk song manuscripts is a very valuable source of songs and other material from several collectors of English song. Other resources, though, are of immense value and include:

• Cecil Sharp’s Diaries and photographs
• The Roud Index of songs
• Bibliographies
• Dance indices
• Street Literature index
• etc.