After their sell-out Christmas concert, Opus Anglicanum returns to Wivenhoe to present Folksongs of the British Isles, a much-loved programme exploring the wonder and excitement of the early 20th century collectors of English folk music as they toured the land with bicycle, notebook and phonograph. This evocative and quintessentially British sequence celebrates the traditional songs of our native land. Memorable words and wonderful music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Cecil Sharp and Percy Grainger tell poignant and hilarious tales of Morris tunes and sea shanties, of ploughmen and washerwomen, and of the race to preserve their inspirational music before war and progress swept it away.