Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Ramblers' Association, branded simply as the Ramblers, is Great Britain's walking charity. The Ramblers is also a membership organisation with around 100,000 members and a network of volunteers who maintain and protect the path network. The organisation was founded in 1935 and campaigns to keep the British countryside open to all.
The Ramblers is the name of a jazz and dance music orchestra from the Netherlands, active since 1926. It was a popular Dutch radio big band in the 1930s and 1940s and instrumental in popularizing jazz music in the Low Countries .
The choir had adopted the name The Ramblers for a concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1978, and one of the songs, "The Sparrow", written by teacher Maurice Jordan, was so popular that the parent-teachers' association paid for the choir to record it at the Strawberry Studios in Stockport, along with four other folk songs; originally 500 copies were pressed up for sale at the ...
North Carolina Ramblers Musical artist Charles Cleveland Poole (March 22, 1892 – May 21, 1931) [ 7 ] was an American old-time musician and leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, a string band that recorded many popular hillbilly songs between 1925 and 1930.
In 2013, the Ramblers were defeated by the UCI Anteaters 0–3 (24–26, 18–25, 27–29) in the first semifinal of the NCAA championships on May 2, 2013, at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. This was the team's first appearance ever in an NCAA men's collegiate volleyball tournament.
The Ramblers won the CoFL's Pacific Division with a 10-2 record, winning all six of their home contests. The first four Ramblers home games were held at Municipal Stadium in Santa Ana; the team's success, and the poor crowds in Santa Ana (12,201 total for the three known games) led the squad to move to Anaheim Stadium for their last two home games, which drew 20,396 fans.
John Cohen (August 2, 1932 – September 16, 2019) [1] was an American musician, photographer and film maker who performed and documented the traditional music of the rural South and played a major role in the American folk music revival.
He was for many years from 1948 the Secretary of the Ramblers' Association. He is credited with having inspired the creation of the Pennine Way, the first of Britain's long-distance footpaths, through an article he wrote for the Daily Herald in 1935, [1] and his subsequent lobbying work with MPs as Ramblers' Association Secretary. He wrote the ...