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Matthew Bannister is in Lincolnshire as he travels across England to find out about the music discovered in County Record Offices and reimagined for the 21st Century by the folk musician Nancy Kerr.

Matthew is in the village of Holton Le Moor to hear about the music books of the Dixons, a farming family on the rise in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He meets Carol Dawson, a local musician, at a crossroads to hear her play a tune on the fiddle. The Dixon books includes a tune, Yarborough鈥檚 March, which is only found in this book. The book also contains songs that later went on to be sung by the folk singers like Joseph Taylor whose versions were collected and recorded by Percy Grainger. Professor Kirsten Gibson, of Newcastle University and the Music Heritage Place project, explains that there is lots of evidence of rural farming families being musically literate and musically engaged at this time.

Music is performed by The Melrose Quartet: Jess Arrowsmith, Richard Arrowsmith, Jamas Fagan and Nancy Kerr

Presenter: Matthew Bannister
Producer: Natalie Steed
A Rhubarb Rhubarb Production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3