about us

The Village Music Project is hosted by Salford University who provided initial funding to set the project up.

The project is headed up by John Adams from within the School of Media, Music and Performance but is staffed entirely by volunteers from outside the university.

The project was conceived by John Adams and Chris Partington who are both active in seeking, copying and evaluating manuscripts. Chris takes responsibility for checking transcriptions prior to web publishing.

Transcriptions have been undertaken by:

Barry Callaghan
John Bagnall
Cherri Graebe
Flos Headford
Chris Partington
Taz Tarry
Simon Wilson

Additional analysis and comment have been provided by Paul Roberts.

Scores of people have contributed information, advice and acted as tune and manuscript detectives.

John Adams, Chris Partington and Paul Roberts play many of the VMP tunes for dancing in their country dance band 'Our Northern Branch'