Sandra Goddard Folk Archive

Welcome - This  page is to provide links to the digitised parts of a folk music archive gathered by  Sandra Goddard, Folk Singer from Lewes, East Sussex. 

Lewes Saturday Folk Club was the club she helped run https://www.facebook.com/people/Lewes-Saturday-Folk-Club/100057844051802/ 

Read about Sandra from her obituary in Living Tradition Magazine https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/index.php/obituaries/sandragoddard 

FOLK SONG ARCHIVE

During the Lockdowns, Jo scanned in over 400 song sheets from her collection - check out the Google Drive Link : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lteFQRYrBqQ96CtmVanNFimitpZbu3as?usp=sharing  In this folder there are also lists  of all songs she collected,  and performed, based  on her set lists.

SANDRA'S PERFORMANCES

Over the years she managed to avoid the camera but there were a few recordings made. Check out our You Tube Channel, where there are some recordings of her singing, including Sandra's first and second CDs, recorded in 2006 and 2018.    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwf-LIWd1YlG-ah6g5-Lbg 

There are also some films on You Tube showing her singing in Shepherds Arise .

'Fair Margaret & Sweet William's Ghost' on 2nd November at Lewes Saturday Folk Club's Halloween night  https://www.facebook.com/cloisters/videos/10158488293874460/?t=8  This is her last recording. 

In November 2020, a donation of her archive was sent to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House. https://www.vwml.org/   The box included paper ephemera , tapes, cds, books &  song sheets, Sussex folk diaries and magazines relating to her lifelong interest in Folk music. There is also a small donation of recordings and other items in The Keep, Brighton.

SANDRA GODDARD - ANNUAL MEMORIAL EVENT

In July 2022 we had the first memorial  event at Rottingdean Windmill  with an art show entitled "Up on The Hill" - The event was over 2 weekends and we had about 600 visitors! There were dances from Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men, Ditchling Morris, The Knots of May and Brighton Morris. We also had performances from the London Hardanger Group, Lewes's Short Story Cabaret plus Shanties from Homeward Bound!  As well as many other singers and performers who came along on the days. In the windmill there were 12 Sussex artists and craftsmakers, including Mimi Butler, Illustrator and Michael Gates, Strawmaker.   To close the proceedings we had the magical Bald Knobbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeR-S9aq_Y  and music from The Crucks https://www.facebook.com/TheCrucks/ .    The event was also featured in Downland, a short film by Ben Hammond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEVnn7I6LeA&t=6s . 

In July 2023  we held the second musical and art event at Rottingdean Windmill with an art show "Six Under Sail" on 22nd & 23rd July, featuring 6 women artists from Sussex. This was followed on Weds 26th July by a Morris dancing picnic and folk singing outside / inside the mill. The event concluded with Brighton Folk Choir and Brighton Bees Mouth Choir having a shanty and folk sing-off inside the mill, due to the rain.   Musicians from Lewes Folk Club also played some folk tunes at the Woodland Burial Ground in Woodingdean that weekend to remember her. 

In July 2024 we will be holding another arts and music / performance event at the Windmill - Follow our insta for updates  https://www.instagram.com/art_rovers/

Best wishes, 


Jo Goddard & Lucy Goddard, Mimi Butler

Sandra on 27th June 2013 at the Travelling Folk weekend at Upper Dicker.
Photo with kind permission of Malcolm Austen

Sandra on Cliffe High Street at Bonfire Night in  Lewes 2019