Eve’s Tune

by Pam Bishop

Eve Brook (1944-1998) was born in Yorkshire and moved to Birmingham as a research student at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. She became casework coordinator at the Birmingham Tribunal Unit, defending claimants against the benefits system. As a Labour councillor in Birmingham her major committees were Planning and Social Services, of which she was chair from 1993 to 1997. Eve also chaired the governors of Queensbridge School and the Birmingham Conservation Trust; she was a member of the West Midlands Transport Authority, a director of the Midlands Arts Centre, and an Associate Director of the Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

Eve was a family friend who often visited our house – I wrote this tune for her and arranged it in three parts for the Moseley Village Band.

Pam Bishop plays duet concertina and guitar, and leads the Mad Moll folk dance band. She has been influential in getting many people to participate in folk activities by organising music and song workshops and sessions, by setting up and leading the Moseley Village Band for twelve years, by organising folk dances and ceilidhs and by tutoring at concertina weekends in Witney, Swaledale and Kilve.