The 2008 CDSS Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Anthony G. Barrand at an event held March 28 in Brattleboro, Vt., at the Oak Grove School

Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, Summer, 2009

The 2008 CDSS Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Anthony G. (Tony) Barrand at an event held March 28 in Brattleboro, Vt., at the Oak Grove School. Tony is an active teacher, Morris and clog dancer, singer and scholar based in Brattleboro. Currently on the faculty at Boston University, he is part of The University Professors, an unusual and inventive teaching program. His courses include "Stalking the Wild Mind: The Psychology and Folklore of Extra-Sensory Perception and Psychic Phenomena," "English Ritual Dance and Drama" and "Folk Songs as Social History." Tony is probably best known, in folk music circles, as part of the singing team John Roberts and Tony Barrand, who together have championed traditional song for almost three decades with their "a capella" duets of English folk bawdry and balladry, Morris and clog dancing, monologs and storytelling. Their numerous recordings are available from Golden Hind Records (<www.goldenhindmusic.com>). Much of Tony's research and teaching has focused on various forms of the seasonal display dances now known generically as Morris dancing. His most recent work is the edited collection Longsword Dances from Traditional and Manuscript Sources: As Collated and Notated by Ivor A llsop (Northern Harmony Publishing Company, 1996). Our heartfelt congratulations!

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