ENGLISH FOLK SONG: SAVING THE GEOFF BODENHAM TAPES

I've been through this material properly now and am more certain of the contents.

Firstly I must admit a mistake; there is no Cinefilm, it's actually old style reel-to-reel magnetic audio tape. This means there is less video footage than I initially believed, but the hope is these tapes are very high quality audio recordings from TV and recording studios where Geoff performed. There should still be plenty of video recording on the VHS tapes included in the collection however.

I've spoken to an expert who can professionally transfer all of the material for me and negotiated a final quote; it's £200.

Until now every digitisation I have ever made has been entirely self funded, and although I quietly added donation links to my profile I have never actually made a public appeal for a single penny, neither have I recieved any such support.

This is the first time I am regretfully having to do so; £200 might not seem like a great sum of money, but I'm a working class parent to 2 small children with a third on the way later this year, undertaking this kind of work, especially if I plan to do it at every available opportunity will require outside support to be viable.

I already have preliminary permission from Geoff Bodenham's daughter to share any transferred material that is of a non-private nature, once the family have been given time to review them. When this is finalised all relevant audio and video recordings will be uploaded publicly to this channel.

If you're able to donate anything, even the price of a cup of coffee, collectively that might go a very long way, if every subscriber of this chat alone gave only 50p we would sail past that target. Anyone who is able to donate a larger amount (above £20) will be able to be named in thanks in the video description for making this possible, providing the name given is reasonably sensible.

If you can't donate, then you can help this project by sharing the link or this post to anywhere people share a love of English Folk Music.

Thank you very much in advance for your time and your support!

HELP SAVE GEOFF'S TAPES HERE