Dave Brown's Website.

Publishing:

In the late 1980s, Dave founded Cotswold Music, a music publishing company. Now he publishes music and dance related items through DLBMUSIC. Try Dave’s SHOP for his own CDs and Books, MUSIC4SCHOOLS for products for Education, including musicals, classroom music and arrangements for solo instruments, and EBOOKS for electronic books which can be downloaded to your computer. The current, and rapidly expanding, catalogue contains dance books, books about calling and books of new melodies.

Biographical Information:

Dave now plays in two bands (ConTradition, and a new band called SKYLARK) which specialize in a wide range of music from English Playford style to American Contra.

Since Dave finished playing with Wild Thyme he has recorded three solo CDs and a new CD with SKYLARK.

• Gingerbread and Moonshine
• Outside of the Square
• Connections
• Skylark (Dave’s new band makes its first CD)

Dave started playing Folk Music while in Primary School in the 1960s. His class teacher, John Burgess, was a Morris Dancer and Musician and inspired all his children to dance, sing and to play. Dave was a member of the school’s Morris Dance team, Maypole team and Country Dance team. A great introduction to English folklore. While at College (1972-75) Dave sang folk songs and began to develop an interest in fiddle music. In 1975 Dave met up with John & Elvyn Blomfield and founded Wild Thyme. Over the next 19 years, Wild Thyme became one of Britain’s best known English Country Dance Bands recording many collections of dance music.

• Wild Thyme Plays Fallibroome 1983 (SDL 339)
• Beau’s Retreat 1985 (WT004)
• Captain’s Ceilidh 1986 (EFDSS BR7)
• Hunter’s Moon 1987 (WT011)
• Packington’s Pound 1988 (WT012)
• Dances with Difference Vol. 2 1988 (CML006) (Dances by Colin Hume)
• Maggot Pie (Double Cassette of all the dances from the Maggot Pie Collection)
• Come Let’s be Merry – Tom Cook 1991 (CML017)
• Music from 2 Barns – Ken Sheffield 1991 (CML 018)
• Another Thyme, Another Place. 1992 (CML020) (Songs and Music)
• Dutch Crossing 1993 (NVS-3CD) Dutch Folk Dance Society

Wild Thyme also appeared at many festivals including Eastbourne, Chippenham, Bedworth, Lichfield, Sidmouth and Broadstairs.