A research page for recording references that sit alongside the main Chelmsford Folk Club session trail — especially recordings of Chelmsford Morris or other Morris groups appearing at Chelmsford Folk Club. These are useful because they show the wider performance context without being mistaken for a complete club-night programme.
SA 30/6/94/1 is listed in the Essex Record Office's folk-music collection guide as a Chelmsford Folk Club Christmas special from 1978.
The present research pass has not established a detailed catalogue description or performer list for this reference, so none is supplied here.
Early Recordings · Collection guideSA 30/6/33/1 is listed in the Record Office's traditional-dance guide as a Chelmsford Morris May Day 1980 sound recording.
This is an associated Morris recording, not a claim about a Chelmsford Folk Club night.
Traditional dance guideSA 30/6/428/1 records Chelmsford Morris at the Folk Club on 7 November 1982, including three dances celebrating the group's tenth anniversary.
This is also the surviving session containing Annie Harding singing Reynardine.
Catalogue Index · Essex Archives catalogueSA 30/6/478/1 is listed in the traditional-dance guide as a Blackmore Morris recording made at Chelmsford Folk Club in 1983.
The published guide establishes the connection and reference; it does not provide a fuller programme here.
Folk Club Circuit · Traditional dance guideThe 7 November 1982 catalogue record demonstrates that a Folk Club evening could include floor singers, a guest performance and a Morris presentation. The collection guide says Etheridge often recorded whole evenings, including announcements, floor singers and applause.
The May Day and other Morris references belong to the wider Chelmsford folk and dance archive. Keeping them visible but separate avoids inflating the Folk Club event index.
The 1978 and 1983 references are particularly useful leads for further catalogue work. They are deliberately not turned into fuller event records until the underlying evidence supports that step.
The Essex Record Office says Jim Etheridge recorded almost every Chelmsford Folk Club between 1978 and 1986, usually capturing the shape and atmosphere of the whole evening. It also notes that he recorded at other clubs and made recordings of Chelmsford Morris. That wider practice helps explain why Folk Club and Morris records intersect in the surviving collection.
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