" I should like to be in a pub, dancing to the infectious grace and vigour of the Broadside Band."

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"A formidable presence in the study and performance of seventeenth
and eighteenth-century popular music
".
Folk Music Journal

"Make no mistake the Broadside Band is something special in the field of Early Music ..."
Fanfare (USA)

 

Jeremy Barlow specialises in English popular music and English dance music from 1550-1750, as a performer, writer and lecturer.  His group the Broadside Band has performed at  major venues and festivals in England, Scotland, France, Austria, Germany and Sweden and has made many recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Saydisc etc. These include the Edison Award winning complete Beggar's Opera featuring Bob Hoskins and Sarah Walker, and best-selling ‘Songs and Dances from Shakespeare'.

His book The Enraged Musician: Hogarth’s Musical Imagery (Ashgate, 2005) received excellent reviews, and his next book, The Cat & the Fiddle: Images of musical humour from the Middle Ages to modern times (Bodleian Library, Oxford) was published recently. Jeremy Barlow lectures at home and abroad on a variety of subjects linking music and art.

On this Web site you will find . . . 

Presentations linking the visual and performing arts with slides and musical examples in high quality digital sound. 

Jeremy Barlow's publications, papers and recordings, listed by subject.

A discography of the Broadside Band's recordings, including audio samples.

The playbill for Broadside Production's 'The Whim of The Moment', a one man show about the first one man showman, Charles Dibdin!  

A list of useful sources of information on English tunes.

 

Recently Published

"The Cat & the Fiddle"
by Jeremy Barlow
Published by the Bodleian Library Oxford.

On sale at the Bodleian Library Bookshop
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For details of a recent conference on John Rich organised by
Jeremy Barlow and Dr Berta Joncus, go to:

http://www.johnrich2008.com