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Memories of Joe

Just before we put up this new version of the site, I emailed some likely friends and posted on Facebook in an appeal for some good photos of Joe fiddling. It was unsurprising, but still moving, to feel the warmth of people’s response and great to see pictures, quite a few which I had never seen before. So, this page is a place for us to put such photos and any written memories people want to send to us to share. There are a few tunes that people have written in tribute to Joe which we will make a place for here. My memory of Joe at sessions was always that he not only could be a mighty ‘tune-engine’, but that he was good at remembering or sussing out what tunes the whole room would know. He could bring a room together.

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Tom Shakespeare Tom Shakespeare wrote on December 3, 2020 at 10:32 am
I remember Joe's warmth and commitment with huge fondness. I'm not a musician, but I compered the Dance for Peace and Socialism (at his bidding) and danced to the Old Rope String Band many times. I remember sitting around talking to him about his collection of old printed tins, and all sorts of other miscellaneous mayhem. He is as vivid in my memory as Julia Darling, and so sad never to hear his joyful playing again. Thank you for this archive of his immortality.
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