Hopkinson's Favourite from Burlesque by Bellowhead

Hopkinson’s Favourite

Concertina player Dave Townsend found the tune in a Lakeland fiddler's manuscript book in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library in Cecil Sharp House, London (shelf mark QM 9721). It has the name Matthew Betham (or possibly Botham), the date 1816, and the place-name Towcett (near Shap Fell) on the inner pages. The internal names and dates are in the same hand as the titles of the tunes, but the outer sheet is inscribed with the mysterious ‘William Docker Newby Head’ in what looks like a completely different hand.

Dave Townsend passed on the tune to Oxford ensemble Magpie Lane, who recorded it on Jack-in-the Green (Beautiful Jo, BEJOCD-22).

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