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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recommend the Queen to award a knighthood (or whatever alternative honour she may deem appropriate) to Ashley Hutchings for his outstanding contribution to the preservation of and education about English folk music and dance, its traditions and heritage. More details
Submitted by A Folk Music Enthusiast – Deadline to sign up by: 23 July 2007 – Signatures: 183
More details from petition creator
Ashley Hutchings has done so much to preserve English folk music, dance, and traditions, and, by his work in schools, to get the "next generation" aware and interested in it. A founder member of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and the Albion Band, he also created and researched the "Morris On" project, which is helping to make more people aware and proud of a great English dance tradition.
Current signatories
A Folk Music Enthusiast, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Tim Silcock
- Frank Boggis
- David Jackson
- Carys Swinger
- Tony Quinn
- Phil Widdows
- Sophie Watson
- Mark McCulloch
- Paul Merrick
- Donna Taylor
- Mark Whitehouse
- Mike Bursell
- Mark Bullock
- Mike Felgate
- Patrick Spens
- James Aldridge
- Sue Manley
- Jo Widdows
- Fred Hall
- mark barton
- Eleanor Rose
- Alan Scott
- Ian Broom
- Alan Thomas
- Stephanie von Hidegh-Pichler
- Paul Moore
- Lisa Ventura
- Steve Duggan
- Robert Barrett
- Tim Moon
- Stuart Duggan
- Chris Armstrong
- Denise Taylor
- Philip Birtwistle
- Celia Birtwistle
- Ruth Birtwistle
- Andrew Parry
- John A Mitchell
- Richard Eyre
- Julian Holliday
- Richard Sanderson
- Tez Burke
- Rosemary Dickin
- Tricia Silcock
- eryl jones
- Richard Whitehead
- Jenny Parsons
- Ewen Bates
- william pipe
- Keith Farnish
- Jules Gray
- Natasha Bunford
- Dave Heywood
- Barry Howard
- Jim Grainger
- Martin Driver
- Dr Clive Richard Calcutt
- Ian James
- James P Denny
- Nigel Twigg
- Judith de la Bedoyere
- Stephen Robert Bayley
- John James Campbell
- Gillian Parsonson
- Michael Barnes
- Malcolm Willis
- Nick Wells
- David Albert Wootten
- Simon Care
- Timothy Willson
- Elisabeth Jane Morris
- Dr Andrew Bruce Brown
- Simon Withers
- David Johnston-Smith
- Matthew Groves
- Martin Nike
- Julian Fowler
- Neil Sapsworth
- Tony Lewis
- duncan carmichael
- Simon Moulds
- Mandy Livermore
- John Hilton
- Oliver Newman
- Moyra Thomas
- Simon Vernon
- Keith hodgkinson
- Joanna Jarvis
- G.R. Esford Di Saster
- simon pollentine
- Rpbert Spowart
- Martin Hanley
- cai broom
- John Newton
- Jeff Kluckers
- David Le Hunte
- Kevin Williams
- Brian Screaton
- Richard Monaghan
- Oli King
- Mike Whitaker
- Aisha Bartram
- Brian Murrell
- Gary Price
- Dave Burns
- Paul Buchanan
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- Rich Husband
- Julian Pritchard
- Chris Jones
- Paul Meredith
- Geoffrey Austin
- Sam Reynolds
- Lizzie Cornish
- Jessica Barter
- Gary Holder
- kimberley hampson
- Dave Huntley
- Howard Roberts
- Ruth Angell
- Mathew Westwood
- John Gardner
- michele francis
- john sedgwick
- Andy Hill
- Joyce Ingledew
- Edward Wooller
- Rachel Titley
- David Guest
- katherine womack
- christopher john irving
- Christian Mayne
- Janice Hellary
- Katie Heathman
- Garry Joseph Critchley
- John HInchliffe
- Paul Klinkenborg
- Michael Stimpson
- Mike Pugsley
- Julie Rogers
- Maria Bisp
- Brian S Bisp
- David & Michele Kratzke
- Andy Jempson
- Amy Griffin
- Alexander Cotterill
- Chris Green
- Robert Haskell
- Graham Cooper
- Ken Oliver
- EJustice
- Kevin Maidment
- Alison Boots
- Gill Cain
- Paul Perriman
- Nicholas Rowley
- Ben Davis
- Lesley Durling
- Trudi Greenshields
- Graham Dyson
- Ged Hickman
- Ian Jackson
- Alan Price
- Harry Collison
- Archie MacLachlan
- Susan Barter
- David Ashmore
- Alastair Thomson
- Deborah Grashoff
- Paul Johnson
- Laurence Quant
- Adrian Oldman
- Marcus Stafford - England Society
- Peter Grail
- Nick Collett
- Michele O'Brien
- Mick Capewell
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- Nicholas Chittenden
- S.P Beaird esq
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