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|f_track=Arkansas Traveler.mp3
|f_track=Stagshaw Bank Fair.mp3
|f_pdf=Arkanses Traveller.pdf
|f_pdf=Stagshaw Bank Fair.pdf
|f_artwork=ArkansasTraveler-MoseCase.gif
|f_artwork=Stagshaw2.jpg
|f_tune_name=Arkansas Traveler
|f_tune_name=Stagshaw Bank Fair
|f_track_title=Arkansas_Traveler_(1)
|f_track_title=Stagshaw_Bank_Fair
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/thepinetreestringband The Pine Tree String Band]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/edric-ellis Edric Ellis]
|f_notes= Sheet music crediting Mose Case
|f_notes= Proclaiming Stagshaw Fair at Corbridge, Northumberland." Ralph Hedley, 1882
|f_caption=One of, if not the most famous of American fiddle tunes. E. Southern  calls Arkansas Traveller a plantation fiddle tune, while Cauthen writes that it 'had been played and sung as (an) anonymous folk tune, claimed and popularized by minstrel performers, then passed into the realm of folk music once more'
|f_caption=This fair, which was one of business as well as pleasure, was the largest held in England for one day and for business people came to it from all parts of the United Kingdom.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/thepinetreestringband/buffalo-gals Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/edric-ellis/stagshaw-bank-fair-herd-on-the Soundcloud]  
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|f_article=[[Arkansas_Traveler_(1) | '''Arkansas Traveler''']]
|f_article=[[Stagshaw_Bank_Fair | '''Stagshaw Bank Fair''']]


The music itself was in print in 1847, Rosenbaum states, and both the tune and the accompanying skit are presumed by him to have been in oral circulation at the time. Bayard (1981) thinks the whole melody may be an "American amalgam," as he was unable to locate a recognizable version in British Isles traditions.  
The tune, as "Stagshaw Bank", also was entered into a c. 1887 manuscript compiled by the Society of Antiquities, entitled "Airs and dance tunes collected and constructed by the Melodies Committee of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, 1857-1887," a compendium of their collecting work of local Northumbrian tunes over several decades.  


The second strain became a "floater," according to him, and appears in otherwise unrelated tunes, and he speculates a portion of the first part may itself have been a 'floater' that became attached to the tune.  
Their work formed the basis from which much of the contents of Bruce & Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy is drawn, and continued for several years after the publication of that volume.  


In Francis O'Neill's '''Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody''' (1922) "Arkansas Traveler" is regarded as having a 'presumable' Irish history and three tunes are given which are proffered as in part ancestral to the American melody. O’Neill says: “Vying in popularity with ‘Turkey in the Straw’, another American favorite claims our affection.  
The tune is thought to be the work of Robert Bewick.


Famous in song and story, its origin has baffled investigation. An exhaustive research conducted by Dr. H.C. Mercer, an official of Buck's County Historical Society (Doylestown, Pa) relating to its history and antecedents failed of its purpose.  
Stagshaw Bank Common is located just south of the Roman Wall in Northumberland.  


All lines of inquiry extending to Kentucky, Arkansas, and Louisiana, ended in contradiction, and uncertainty. Furthermore, the quaint dialogue between the ‘Traveler’ and the backwoods fiddler was based on nothing more substantial than a fertile imagination.  
For centuries it was the scene of two great annual fairs held on the day before Whit Sunday and on July 4th. From 1820 a third annual fair was held on November 24th.  
 
The opening paragraph of Dr. Mercer's essay published in the Century Magazine—On the track of the Arkansas Traveler—is well worth quoting:
 
<blockquote>
''Sometime about the year 1850 the American musical myth''
''known as "The Arkansas Traveler" came into vogue among''
''fiddlers. It is a quick reel tune with a backwoods story''
''talked to it while played, that caught the ear at sideshows''
''and circuses, and sounded over the trodden turf of fair ''
''grounds. Bands and foreign-bred musicians were above ''
''noticing it, but the people loved it, and kept time to it,''
''while tramps and sailors carried it across the seas to vie ''
''merrily in Irish cabins with The Wind that Shakes the Barley''
''and The Soldier's Joy.''
</blockquote>


The fairs gradually died out during the last half of the 19th century.
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Revision as of 07:26, 30 December 2023



This fair, which was one of business as well as pleasure, was the largest held in England for one day and for business people came to it from all parts of the United Kingdom.
Stagshaw Bank Fair

Played by: Edric Ellis
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Proclaiming Stagshaw Fair at Corbridge, Northumberland." Ralph Hedley, 1882

Stagshaw Bank Fair

The tune, as "Stagshaw Bank", also was entered into a c. 1887 manuscript compiled by the Society of Antiquities, entitled "Airs and dance tunes collected and constructed by the Melodies Committee of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, 1857-1887," a compendium of their collecting work of local Northumbrian tunes over several decades.

Their work formed the basis from which much of the contents of Bruce & Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy is drawn, and continued for several years after the publication of that volume.

The tune is thought to be the work of Robert Bewick.

Stagshaw Bank Common is located just south of the Roman Wall in Northumberland.

For centuries it was the scene of two great annual fairs held on the day before Whit Sunday and on July 4th. From 1820 a third annual fair was held on November 24th.

The fairs gradually died out during the last half of the 19th century.

...more at: Stagshaw Bank Fair - full Score(s) and Annotations


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