Forster Charlton

Career Musician

Biography Member of the Northumberland Pipers Society. According to http://www.asaplive.com/ExMu/TSG.cfm?ccs=602&cs=733 Forster Charlton was a traditional fiddler, who later took up the Northumbrian smallpipes as a result of his brother's acquaintance with Billy Pigg. He was involved in the folk music of Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1950s, and introduced Colin Ross to both the smallpipes and Billy Pigg. In the 1960s he was secretary of the Pipers Society for several years and was very keen to record many of the traditional musicians of the area. He played with the High Level Ranters in their early days, and appears on the 'Northumberland for Ever' recording, playing both fiddle and smallpipes. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 14/12/2006]

Biography References http://www.asaplive.com/ExMu/TSG.cfm?ccs=602&cs=733 / http://www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk/history.htm

County Northumberland

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around By 1963

Dates active Unknown, active 1950s-1960s

Donated around By 1963

Owned By 1963

English collections Recording of Northumberland pipes

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

Portrait link http://www.asaplive.com/ExMu/TSG.cfm?ccs=602&cs=733

English collection size 1

Connections L. [possibly Louis] Gurr / Zoological Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History