Over the years I have developed a series of talks incorporating everything that I have learned about our dialect, history and literary heritage. Combined in chronological order, these talks last over 8 hours but, out of respect for my audiences, I offer them in neat 45 minute chunks. They’re very popular….<\/p>\n
A LANCASHIRE GARLAND<\/strong> –<\/strong> The History of Lancashire and its Dialect in song, stories & poems.<\/em><\/p>\n THE LANCASHIRE COTTON FAMINE (1861-65) –<\/strong>How we survived the American civil war.<\/em><\/p>\n AN AFTERNOON WITH EDWIN WAUGH <\/strong><\/em>– A performance of his concert from October 5th 1875.<\/em> <\/p>\n “JONE O’ GRINFILT”<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 The story of Lancashire’s most popular 19th century street ballad.<\/em>.<\/p>\n LOVE & ROMANCE IN VICTORIAN LANCASHIRE<\/strong><\/em> – poetry and song from the authors of the time.<\/em><\/p>\n THE POETS & POETRY OF VICTORIAN BLACKBURN<\/em> <\/strong>– the lives and works of the town’s authors.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n WHAT THEY SAID:<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Michael Higgins’ review of my talk in Rochdale’s Co-op Museum:-<\/p>\n SID CALDERBANK SINGS & CHATS COTTON \u2013 All Across the Arts (aata.dev)<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAn accomplished performer of Lancashire Dialect songs, stories, and poems. His work is meticulously researched, brilliantly performed and often very humorous.\u201d<\/strong> Over the years I have developed a series of talks incorporating everything that I have learned about our dialect, history and literary heritage. Combined in chronological order, these talks last over 8 hours but, out of respect for my audiences, I offer them in neat 45 minute chunks. They’re very… Read more“Talks about Lancashire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidcalderbank.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThe best speaker I have heard , on any subject, in the last 5 years.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u201cA breath of fresh air in the folk scene\u201d.<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe highlight of my festival.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe left a lot of happy people behind him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"