User:Philip Heath-Coleman

Not given to doing this sort of thing, I hope never to do it twice, so here's the nonsense I had to provide when I gave a talk at ECMW (the English Country Music Weekend) in 1911:

PH-C is a scribbling fiddler who has penned articles on an ever narrower range of subjects for anyone willing to publish them, including the Folk Music Journal, Musical Traditions and Fiddle On. His scribbling, or “intimidating scholarship” as it’s been described (honest) can also be found in the notes to CDs of traditional music released by Musical Traditions – notably those devoted to the fiddlers Stephen Baldwin and Fred Whiting - and Veteran (Jack and Les Rice). His real interest in traditional music dates back to the occasion when he inadvertently gate-crashed Billy Bennington’s birthday party at the late lamented Dennington Bell some time last century, and he hasn’t looked back – or, sadly, forwards - since a company of refreshed travellers advised him a short while after nominal closing time that he “played that thing properly” [which is the only credential I value].