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- Folk Music: A resource for creative music-making (Key Stage 3 and 4)
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- Creative Folk Dance for Primary Schools
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- Using Folk Music to Enhance Inclusive Learning
- Jargon buster
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- Using Folk Song and Dance in Primary Schools by Liam Robinson
- Working By Ear by Rob Harbron and Miranda Rutter
- Two Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools by Hazel Askew
- Creating a New Song Cycle from Traditional Songs by Jo Freya
- Tradition and Composition
- Trio of North East Songs - Carolyn Robson
- Using Folk Arts in Key Stage 1 - Bev and Ray Langton
- BBC Radio 2 Cecil Sharp Project
- Banks of Claudy
- Bean Setting
- Country Gardens
- Seeds of Love
- Laudnum Bunches
- Barbara Ellen
- Two Christmas Carols - Carolyn Robson
- As I Lay On A Sunny Bank - Carolyn Robson
- Awake! Awake! - Carolyn Robson
- Bury Pace Eggers Play - Sue Bousfield
- Bury Pace Eggers Song
- Warm Up: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean from Carolyn Robson
- Here We Come A-Wassailing - Ian Stephenson
- Three Ravens - Ian Stephenson
- Bury Singing Day Pack - Caroline Price
- Storytelling using folk ballads in Secondary Schools - Amy Douglas
- Buttered Peas/Butter'd Pease by Sheena Masson
- Vocal Warm Ups
- Black Sailors and Sea Shanties
- Folk Music in Schools
- I Love English Folk Dance
- Six Folk Arrangements for Youth Ensembles
- A Sailor's LIfe
- A Sailor's Life Key Stage 1
- Introduction to playing folk music: working with intermediate and advance players new to folk music
- Threshing Machine: a musical interpretation of a heritage resource
- Swords and Stars: Rapper Dance for Primary Schools
- In Our Own Words: exploring coal mining through folk song
- A Collier Lad
- Pony Driver
- A Collier Lad - choral arrangement
- The Miner's Dream
- Blue Scars
- Shots Fired
- Tools of the Trade
- Rapper Set for Key Stage 2 Instruments - Yorkshire Tune
- Rapper Set for Key Stage 2 Instruments - A Dance for 1811
- Rapper Set for Brass Band - Oatlands House
- Rapper Set for Brass Band - Tekely
- Songs of Rural Life: accessibility and adaptability in SEN settings
- Donkey Riding
- Twas in the Good Ship Rover
- Sea Songs and Shanties for Tall Ships
- An Introduction to English Sea Songs and Shanties
- Ceilidh Band Project
- Essex Folk Song Discovery
- Essex Folk Song Discovery 2: Coastal Songs
- Songs from the James Madison Carpenter Folk Collection
- Folk and Traditional Music: to accompany a performance by the National Youth Folk Ensemble and Leveret
- Songs of May: using folk arts in inclusive settings
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Emmie Ward holds a PG CERT in music and special needs using Sound Of Intent with Roehampton University. She is a folk musician and works as a freelance music and folk arts practitioner and teaches a range of classes for people with learning disabilities. She specialises in using a multi sensory approach to storytelling and music. Emmie has worked in a variety of settings including Day Centres, FE colleges and schools where she has worked as a teacher for many years. Projects have included “Everybody Dance Company” a millennium funded dance project with performers with complex needs and working on the show “Weighting” by Extraordinary bodies an inclusive, touring circus. Emmie also teaches on the “Get Your Folk on” holiday workshops for young disabled people.
Joe Danks is a percussionist, guitarist singer and composer from Nottingham, now based in South East London. He is a member of the band Ranagri (StockFisch Records), playing Bodhran, Tenor Guitar and percussion. In 2018 he was selected for one of EFDSS's Musicians In Museums residencies at The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. His education work has seen him work with EFDSS, Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre, London Symphony Orchestra, The BBC Family Orchestra and Nottingham Royal Concert Hall; amongst others. He is also director of Pulse Arts CIC, a company that takes person centered music practice into hospitals and hospices in London and East Anglia.