Back home, stopped on Eglwysilan Common on the way back. strange to think 100yrs ago 1500 ft beneath my feet rescuers working to find survivors Anyway, enough of my musings, here is the track listing for tonights show Aber Valley Male Voice Choir - Senghenydd Song - A Miners Song Can’t think of a better way to start tonights show with the valley choir first track from the charity EP put together by Dan & Laura Curtis to raise funds for the Welsh National Miners Memorial Siwsann George - A Miners Life Great Welsh union song, sung here by the late Siwsann George, also been covered by Billy Bragg, the melody is very similar to Calon Lan Battlefield Band - The Auchengeich Disaster - Zama Zama Try Your Luck 18th September 1959, 47 men lost their lives in an underground fire at Auchengeich Colliery in Lanarkshire. The fire was started by an electrical fault in a fan. The fire was eventually extinguished by flooding the pit Richard Trethewey - Geevor Lads - Dig Where You Stand written by Mike O’Connor after hearing the wind howling through the old mine workings during a winter gale in Cornwall, Welsh Artists Collective - A Miners Song - A Miners Song SIngle from the EP, featuring the likes of Aled Jones, Joe Calzaghe, Dennis O’Neill, Paul Potts, MIchael Sheen, Wynne Evans Bob Fox - Celebrated Working Man/Oakeys Strike Evictions - How Are You Off For Coals Not all mining songs are about death & destruction, this one is about the best worker in the pit, provided he doesn’t leave the pub State Of Undress - The Black Hills Of Mendip - Journeys Of The Heart Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Highbury, Coleford, Camerton. All towns in the now largely forgotten Somerset coalfield. Written by Jerry Bird about his time growing up in the area Rag Foundation - The Coal Owner - Minka Tudur Huws Jones - Cau Drws Y Ty - Dal I Drio Clsing the Door Of The House. About the great Strike of 1900 - 1903, which closed the giant Penrhyn Slate Quarry near Bethesda for 3 years. Started over the collection of Union dues on the site Boyd Clack - A SInners Lament - A Miners Song Next track from a Miners Song The Dubliners - Springhill Mining Disaster - 50 Years October 23rd 1958, an underground earthquake, or bump, hits the Springhill area of Nova Scotia in Canada. 174 miners were in Springhill No2 pit at the time. 74 were killed but 100 were eventually rescued & Peggy Seeger came up with this Song Oysterband - Coal Not Dole/Bells Of Rhymney - Granite Years (best of) Two Poems set to music by Oysterbannd. The first is by Kay Sutcliffe who wrote it in 1984, at the height of the Miners Strike about the death of the Kent Coalfield, where she lived. The other is Idris Davies’ seminal poem Seth Lakeman - The Colliers - Freedom Fields 22 september 1934 266 men & boys are killed in an underground explosion at Westminster & United’s Gresford Colliery near Wrexham. Only 11 bodies were ever recovered, the rest are still down there after there damaged working were permanently sealed Paul Child - Working Man - A Miners Song Show Of Hands - Cousin Jack - Roots (best of) Steve Knightly & Phil Beer’s classic song of cornish Emigration Richard Thompson - Blackleg Miner - 1000 years of popular music Traditional song from Northumberland depicting the uncompromising stance taken against strike breakers. though to date from the early C19th Dave Burns - Maerdy - The Last Pit In The Rhondda Tom Crow - Deep Dark Dirty Hole - A Miners Song Based on Tom’s recollections of his own father who worked in the Colliery at Newbridge Martyn Joseph - Proud Valley Boy - Deep Blue Martyn’s homage to Paul Robeson, who formed a great affinity with the Welsh Miners after meeting a group of them on a hunger march in London in 1928. Every year between 1953 & 1957 Robeson was invited to sing at the annual miners Eisteddfod in Porthcawl but he was prevented from attending because the US government has withdrawn his passport. In 1957 he was able to perform via a transatlantic telephone link to a secret recording studio in New York Yr Hwntws - Y Tanchwa Llanerch - Gwentian Take of the 1890 explosion that killed 176 men & boys Daniel & Laura Curtis - Where My Heart Longs To Roam - A Miners Song The Abertridwr Wyrm - Bluehorses - Dragons Mike & Coal
Posted on: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:23:38 +0000
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