Pete Cooper (fiddle) and Richard Bolton (cello) play two traditional West Country hornpipes. Cecil Sharp, who visited the Shepton Mallet Union (workhouse) in December 1907, noted them down from the playing of octogenarian Gypsy fiddler James Higgins (1819-1910). Radstock, nine miles north-east of Shepton Mallet, was at that time a mining town in the heart of the Somerset coalfield. The term ‘jig’ is used in the generic sense of ‘dance tune’.
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
