The Ballad Partners is a not-for-profit publishing company which has been in operation since 2018. Our purpose is to raise awareness for, encourage the study of, and publish materials in the subjects of folk and traditional song, music, dance, custom, and other related fields (“The folk arts”). Learn more about us here, and about our books here.

Latest News

New Books:

The Ballad Partners are delighted to announce two new books:

– Fourteen Fleeting Weeks: Maud Karpeles and Newfoundland Folk Song. Between 1929 and 1930, Maud Karpeles, one of the leading figures in the English folk song and dance revival, made two song collecting expeditions to Newfoundland. Over fourteen weeks of travelling by foot, rowing boat, automobile, coastal steamer, and train, she notated 197 songs from about 115 singers, dispersed over forty-six communities in eight regions of the island.

The full story of her Newfoundland expeditions has remained largely untold. Fourteen Fleeting Weeks tells that story through annotated diaries, photographs, and thirty-six previously unpublished songs, provides new biographical and genealogical details of many of the singers, and highlights the impact of Karpeles’s work on Newfoundland’s musical heritage, the Canadian folk revival, and folklore scholarship at large.

– Time and Place: In Pursuit of Folk Songs. This is another wide-ranging collection of papers on aspects of Folk Song study – from England, Ireland, Scotland, USA and Portugal – reflecting the exciting diversity of approaches in the field today. The book is currently at the printers and will be shipping soon!

Learn more and order your copies today!

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