Willie Whitlam

by Pam Bishop

Willie Whitlam is a “Dancing Doll”, a puppet that dances on a board He was made and is played by my partner, as can be seen here
dancing to a well-known polka. I thought he deserved his own tune, and this is it.

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.