related internet links Coope, Boyes & Simpson "a passionate tour de force of unaccompanied singing as you can imagine" - Mojo Inspired. Barbed lyrics, a wide pitch range and thrilling bass sonorities swapped between all three. If there is such a thing as postmodern folk music, this might be it." - The Guardian   Passchendaele 1917  otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was one of the major battles of World War I fought by British, ANZAC, and Canadian soldiers against the German army near Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) in West Flanders, southwestern Belgium over the control of the village of Passchendaele. The plan was to drive a hole in the German lines and advance clear through to the Belgian coast. Passchendaele Archives Needs Your Support to build a personal archive of thousands of files which may  be researched at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 we will only create a file if a photograph is available and only if the man concerned lost his life between 12th, July and 15th, November, 1917. Panta Rhei exploring the rich variety of traditional music found in Europe today. Its members come from highly diverse musical backgrounds  - including jazz, classical, music for theatre, traditional music, folk and chanson - and offer us one of the most audaciously original projects to emerge in the last few years Passchendaele Suite Panta Rhei Coope, Boyes and Simpson In 1997, to mark the eightieth anniversary  the people of Passendale invited  Coope Boyes & Simpson and the  Brussels-based octet, Panta Rhei to create Passchendaele Suite, a cycle of songs and music which was first performed in the town’s main square and later in front of an audience of more than fourteen thousand on the Main Stage at the Dranouter Folk Festival. Using specially written, contemporary and traditional music,  the Suite adds new perspectives to the tragedy of the Great War. Lost dreams of the New Zealand troops who came half across the world, the Irish poet who wrote of hillside farms and birdsong amid the carnage of the trenches, fragments of older battles fought on the Bloody Field of Flanders and above all -accompanied or in haunting acappella  - stories of those who survived but were never the same or were laid low never to be hurt again.   Jack Turner's War "The experience of the 1914-1918 Great War left a lasting mark on the youth of Canada. Over the years however, that experience has been generalized and sanitized in history books so that long-ago events in distant countries no longer seem real. The authentic voices of those who actually served and experienced the horror of war are now seldom heard."