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1. 387 relations: 'Obby 'Oss festival, A cappella, A. L. Lloyd, Accordion, Alan Stivell, Alfred Williams (poet), AllMusic, American folk music revival, Andrew Lang, Anglo-Saxons, Anne Briggs, Anne Gilchrist (collector), Antiquarian, Bagpipes, Ballad, Barbara Allen (song), Barbara Dickson, Baroque music, Battle of Otterburn, BBC Home Service, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, BBC World Service, Bede, Bellowhead, Bert Jansch, Beth Orton, Billy Bragg, Billy Connolly, Billy Pigg, Blow the Man Down, Bluegrass music, Bob Dylan, Bob Roberts (folksinger), Bombard (musical instrument), Border ballad, Border Morris, Brass band, Brenda Wootton, Bretons, British folk revival, British folk rock, British Library Sound Archive, Brittany, Broadside ballad, Bulverton, Call and response, Cambridge Folk Festival, Capstan (nautical), Cavalier, ... Expand index (337 more) » « Shrink index

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'Obby 'Oss festival

The Obby 'Oss festival is a folk custom that takes place each 1st of May in Padstow, a coastal town in North Cornwall.

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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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A. L. Lloyd

Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908 – 29 September 1982),Eder, Bruce.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Alan Stivell

Alan Stivell (born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp.

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Alfred Williams (poet)

Alfred Owen Williams (7 February 1877 – 10 April 1930) was a poet, writer and a collector of folk song lyrics who was born and lived most of his life at South Marston, near Swindon, UK.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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American folk music revival

The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Anne Briggs

Anne Patricia Briggs (born 29 September 1944) is an English folk singer.

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Anne Gilchrist (collector)

Anne Geddes Gilchrist OBE FSA (8 December 1863 – 24 July 1954) was a British folk song collector.

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Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Barbara Allen (song)

"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond.

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Barbara Dickson

Barbara Ruth Dickson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish singer and actress whose hits include "I Know Him So Well" (a chart-topping duet with Elaine Paige), "Answer Me" and "January February".

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Battle of Otterburn

The Battle of Otterburn took place according to Scottish sources on 5 August 1388, or 19 August according to English sources, as part of the continuing border skirmishes between the Scots and English.

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BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a national and regional radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music, with the aim of raising the profile of folk and acoustic music.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bede

Bede (Bēda; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.

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Bellowhead

Bellowhead is an English contemporary folk band, active from 2004 to 2016, reforming in 2020.

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Bert Jansch

Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle.

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Beth Orton

Elizabeth Caroline Orton (born 14 December 1970) is an English musician known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, author and political activist.

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Billy Connolly

Sir William Connolly (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish retired comedian, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter.

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Billy Pigg

Billy Pigg (1902 – 1968) was an English player of Northumbrian smallpipes.

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Blow the Man Down

"Blow the Man Down" is an English-language sea shanty, listed as 2624 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Bob Roberts (folksinger)

Alfred William "Bob" Roberts (1907–1982) was a British folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, bargeman, author, and journalist.

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Bombard (musical instrument)

The bombard is a contemporary family of oboes widely used to play traditional Breton music, where it is considered emblematic.

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Border ballad

Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border.

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Border Morris

Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales–England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Brenda Wootton

Brenda Wootton (née Ellery) (10 February 1928 – 11 March 1994) was a Cornish folk singer and poet and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far as Australia and Canada.

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Bretons

The Bretons (Bretoned or) are an ethnic group native to Brittany, north-western France.

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British folk revival

The British folk revival incorporates a number of movements for the collection, preservation and performance of folk music in the United Kingdom and related territories and countries, which had origins as early as the 18th century.

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British folk rock

British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s.

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British Library Sound Archive

The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Broadside ballad

A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations.

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Bulverton

Bulverton is a small hamlet on the outskirts of Sidmouth, Devon, England.

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Call and response

Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.

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Cambridge Folk Festival

The Cambridge Folk Festival is an annual music festival, established in 1965, held in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the city of Cambridge, England.

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Capstan (nautical)

A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to multiply the pulling force of seamen when hauling ropes, cables, and hawsers.

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Cædmon

Cædmon (fl. c. 657–684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known.

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Cecil Sharp

Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician.

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Celtic rock

Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock, as well as a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context.

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Child Ballads

The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century.

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Chris While

Chris While (born 1956) is an English songwriter, singer and musician, known particularly for her vocals and live performances.

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Chris Wood (folk musician)

Chris Wood is an English songwriter and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and sings.

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Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba were a British anarcho-punk band who formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012.

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Circle dance

Circle dance, or chain dance, is a style of social dance done in a circle, semicircle or a curved line to musical accompaniment, such as rhythm instruments and singing, and is a type of dance where anyone can join in without the need of partners.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Clog dancing

Clog dancing is a form of step dance characterised by the wearing of inflexible, wooden soled clogs.

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Comus (band)

Comus are a British progressive folk band who had a brief career in the early 1970s.

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Concertina

A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica.

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Copper Family

The Copper Family are a family of singers of traditional, unaccompanied English folk song.

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Cornish bagpipes

Cornish bagpipes (Pibow sagh kernewek) are the forms of bagpipes once common in Cornwall in the 19th century.

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Cornish dance

Cornish dance (Donsyow kernewek) originates from Cornwall, UK.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is a region of central South West England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham.

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Country dance

A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Crawley

Crawley is a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

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Crumhorn

The crumhorn is a double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dando Shaft

Dando Shaft is the name of a short-lived psychedelic/progressive folk and folk jazz band that was primarily active in the early 1970s.

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Danny Thompson

Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist.

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Dave Pegg

Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, primarily a bass guitarist.

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Dave Swarbrick

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter.

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Davey Graham

David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham (originally spelled Davy Graham) (26 November 1940 – 15 December 2008) was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival.

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Diatonic button accordion

A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments.

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Diggers

The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism.

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Diggers' Song

"The Diggers' Song" (also known as "Levellers and Diggers") is a 17th-century English ballad by Gerrard Winstanley, a protest song about land rights inspired by the Diggers movement.

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Dolly Collins

Dorothy Ann Collins (6 March 1933 – 22 September 1995), was an English folk musician, arranger and composer.

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Donovan

Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London.

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Eduard Bernstein

Eduard Bernstein (6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician.

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Edward II (band)

Edward II (known also as EII, and previously as Edward the Second and the Red Hot Polkas and e2K) are an English band which play a fusion of world music, English folk and reggae.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Eliza Carthy

Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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English country music

English country music is a term that gained currency in the 1960s and early 70s to specifically describe a genre of instrumental music then receiving attention from the folk revival. English folk music and English country music are English styles of music.

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English Folk Dance and Song Society

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, or pronounced 'EFF-diss') is an organisation that promotes English folk music and folk dance.

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English Folk Song Suite

English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' most famous works.

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English Pastoral School

The English Pastoral School, sometimes called the English Nationalist School or by detractors the Cow Pat School, is an informal designation for a group of English composers of classical music working during the early to mid 20th century, who sought to build a distinctively English style of music by composing in a style informed by Tudor music and English folk music, and often explicitly evoking the English countryside.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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English Rebel Songs

English Rebel Songs is the third studio album by English band Chumbawamba.

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English Reformation

The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church.

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Ernest John Moeran

Ernest John Smeed Moeran (31 December 1894 – 1 December 1950) was an English composer whose work was strongly influenced by English and Irish folk music of which he was an assiduous collector.

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Ewan MacColl

James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor.

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Expurgation

An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media.

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Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig).

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Fairport's Cropredy Convention

Fairport's Cropredy Convention (formerly Cropredy Festival) is an annual festival of folk and rock music, headed by British folk-rock band Fairport Convention and held on the edge of the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, England.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick").

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Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde.

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Folk baroque

Folk baroque or baroque guitar is a distinctive and influential guitar fingerstyle developed in Britain in the 1960s, which combined elements of American folk, blues, jazz and ragtime with British folk music to produce a new and elaborate form of accompaniment.

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Folk club

A folk club is a regular event, permanent venue, or section of a venue devoted to folk music and traditional music.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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Folk metal

Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk punk

Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Francis James Child

Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads.

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Frank Hinchliffe

Frank Hinchliffe (1923 - 15 March 1995) was an English folk singer and farmer.

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Frank Kidson

Frank Kidson (15 November 1855 – 7 November 1926) was an English folksong collector and music scholar.

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Frank Turner

Francis Edward Turner (born 28 December 1981) is an English punk and folk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Hampshire.

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Frankie Armstrong

Frankie Armstrong (born 13 January 1941) is an English singer and voice teacher.

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Fred Jordan (singer)

Fred Jordan (5 January 1922 – 30 July 2002) was a farm worker from Ludlow, Shropshire, and is noted as one of the great musically untutored traditional English singers.

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Frederick Delius

Delius, photographed in 1907 Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius;; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer.

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French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars (Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.

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Furry Dance

The most famous Furry Dance takes place in Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Galliard

The galliard (gaillarde; gagliarda) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century.

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George Butterworth

George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.

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Glorious Revolution

The Glorious Revolution is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688.

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Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth, often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich.

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Guise dancing

Guise dancing (sometimes known as goose, goosey or geese dancing) is a form of community mumming practiced during the twelve days of Christmastide, that is, between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night in West Cornwall, England, UK.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Hal Leonard

Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Harry Boardman

Harry Boardman (1930–1987) was an English folk singer who was born in Failsworth, Lancashire.

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Harry Cox

Harry Fred Cox (27 March 1885 – 6 May 1971), was a Norfolk farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style.

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Heart of Oak

"Heart of Oak" is the official march of the Royal Navy.

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Hedgehog Pie

Hedgehog Pie were a British folk rock group from the north-east of England, that evolved between 1969 and 1971.

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Helston

Helston (label) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Henry Burstow

Henry Burstow (1826–1916) was a shoemaker and bellringer from Horsham, Sussex, best known for his vast repertoire of songs, many of which were collected in the folksong revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Henry Stenning

Henry James Stenning (1889–1971), known in print as H. J. Stenning and also known as Harry Stenning, was an English socialist and translator.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Ho Chi Minh

italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.

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Hobby horse

In folklore, a hobby horse is a costumed character that features in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the world.

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Hornpipe

The hornpipe is any of several dance forms played and danced in Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day.

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Horslips

Horslips are an Irish Celtic rock band that compose, arrange and perform songs frequently inspired by traditional Irish airs, jigs and reels.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Hymnal

A hymnal or hymnary is a collection of hymns, usually in the form of a book, called a hymnbook (or hymn book).

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Ian A. Anderson

Ian A. Anderson (born 26 July 1947) is an English magazine editor, folk musician and broadcaster.

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Ian Campbell Folk Group

The Ian Campbell Folk Group were one of the most popular and respected folk groups of the British folk revival of the 1960s.

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Ian Dury

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Jack Tar

Jack Tar (also Jacktar, Jack-tar or Tar) is a common English term that was originally used to refer to seamen of the Merchant Navy or the Royal Navy, particularly during the British Empire.

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Jack the Lad

Jack the Lad were a British folk rock group from North East England formed in 1973 by three former members of the most successful band of the period from the region, Lindisfarne.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne.

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Jacqui McShee

Jacqueline "Jacqui" McShee (born 25 December 1943) is an English singer.

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James Halliwell-Phillipps

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born James Orchard Halliwell; 21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

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Jan Dukes de Grey

Jan Dukes de Grey was a short-lived English psychedelic/progressive folk and progressive rock band that was primarily active in the early 1970s.

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Jane Taylor (poet)

Jane Taylor (23 September 178313 April 1824) was an English poet and novelist best known for the lyrics of the widely known "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".

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Jasper Carrott

Robert Norman Davis (born 14 March 1945), best known by his stage name, Jasper Carrott, is an English comedian, actor, singer and television presenter.

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Jig

The jig (port, port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune.

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Jim Causley

Jim Causley (born 1980) is a British folk singer, songwriter, and musician from Devon who specializes in the traditional songs and music of the West Country.

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Jim Moray

Jim Moray (born Douglas Oates; 20 August 1981) is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher.

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John Harland

John Harland (1806–1868) was an English reporter and antiquary.

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John Martyn

Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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John Newbery

John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767), considered "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.

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John Playford

John Playford (1623–1686) was a London bookseller, publisher, minor composer and member of the Stationers' Company.

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John Renbourn

John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter.

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John Tams

John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician born in Holbrook, Derbyshire, the son of a publican.

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Joseph Ritson

Joseph Ritson (2 October 1752 – 23 September 1803) was an English antiquary known for editing the first scholarly collection of Robin Hood ballads (1795).

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Julie Matthews

Julie Matthews (born 1963) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

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Kate Lee (English singer)

Kate Lee, born Catharine Anna Spooner, (9 March 1859 – 25 July 1904) was an English singer and folksong collector, one of the founders of the Folk-Song Society in 1898.

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Kate Rusby

Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Kathryn Roberts

Kathryn Roberts is an English folk singer, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

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Kathryn Tickell

Kathryn Tickell, OBE, DL (born 8 June 1967) is an English musician, noted for playing the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle.

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Kellie While

Kellie While is an English folk singer-songwriter.

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Ken Nicol (musician)

Kenneth Stephen Nicol (born 27 May 1951) is an English guitar player, vocalist and songwriter.

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Kentwell Hall

Kentwell Hall is a stately home in Long Melford, Suffolk, England.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Lamorna (folk song)

Lyrics (Lamorna) So now I'll sing to you, about a maiden fair, I met the other evening at the corner of the square. She had a dark and roving eye, she was a charming rover, And we rode all night, through the pale moonlight away down to Lamorna. Chorus Twas down in Albert square I never shall forget, Her eyes they shone like diamonds and the evening it was wet, wet, wet.

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Laura Marling

Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is an English folk singer-songwriter.

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Levellers

The Levellers were a political movement active during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance.

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Lewes

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England.

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Lincolnshire Posy

Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association.

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Lindisfarne (band)

Lindisfarne are an English folk rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1968 (originally called Brethren).

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Lionel Monckton

Lionel John Alexander Monckton (18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924) was an English composer of musical theatre.

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List of folk festivals

A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music.

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List of folk songs by Roud number

This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website.

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List of traditional singers

A traditional singer, also known as a source singer, is someone who has learned folk songs in the oral tradition, usually from older people within their community.

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Little Eyes

Little Eyes or Little Lize (Lil' Lize) is a folksong that is popular in Cornwall, England, UK, although it originated in America.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Sword dance

The Long Sword dance is a hilt-and-point sword dance recorded mainly in Yorkshire, England.

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Loughborough

Loughborough is a market town in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England; it is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council.

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Lucy Broadwood

Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (9 August 1858 – 22 August 1929) was an English folksong collector and researcher, and great-granddaughter of John Broadwood, founder of the piano manufacturers Broadwood and Sons.

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Lullaby

A lullaby, or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep).

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Madrigal

A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers.

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Malicorne (band)

Malicorne are a French folk and folk rock band formed in September 1973 by Gabriel Yacoub, Marie Yacoub (now Marie Sauvet), Hughes de Courson and Laurent Vercambre.

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Marcellus Laroon

Marcellus Laroon or Lauron, the elder (1653–1702) was a Dutch-born painter and engraver, active in England.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Mark Radcliffe (radio broadcaster)

Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English radio broadcaster, musician and writer.

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Martin Carthy

Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Martin Simpson

Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830.

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Medieval folk rock

Medieval folk rock, medieval rock or medieval folk is a musical subgenre that emerged in the early 1970s in England and Germany which combined elements of early music with rock music.

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United Kingdom or Ireland.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Midlands

The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea.

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Mike Harding

Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist.

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Milwaukie, Oregon

Milwaukie is a city mostly in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States; a very small portion of the city extends into Multnomah County.

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Minehead

Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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Minstrel

A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe.

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Molly dance

Molly dancing is a form of English Morris dance, traditionally done by out-of-work ploughboys in midwinter in the 19th century.

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Monk's Gate

Monk's Gate is a hamlet in the civil parish of Nuthurst, in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Morris dance

Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance.

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Morris On

Morris On is a folk/rock album released in 1972 under the joint names of Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield.

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Moseley

Moseley is a suburb of south Birmingham, England, south of the city centre.

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Mr. Fox

Mr Fox were an early 1970s British folk rock band.

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Muckram Wakes

Muckram Wakes was an English folk band, from the north-east Midlands of England.

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Mumford & Sons

Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band formed in London in 2007.

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Mummers' play

Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins).

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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Music of Brittany

Since the early 1970s, Brittany has experienced a tremendous revival of its folk music.

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Music of Ireland

Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.

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Music of Northumbria

Here Northumbria is defined as Northumberland, the northernmost county of England, and County Durham.

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Music of Scotland

Scotland is internationally known for its traditional music, which remained vibrant throughout the 20th century and into the 21st when many traditional forms worldwide lost popularity to pop music.

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MUSICultures

MUSICultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal formerly published as Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/La Revue de musique folklorique canadienne (1996–2002) and Canadian Folk Music Journal (1973–1996).

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Mystery play

Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

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Nancy Kerr

Nancy Kerr (born 1975) is an English folk musician and songwriter, specialising in the fiddle and singing.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Narrative

A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English musician.

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Noah and the Whale

Noah and the Whale were a British indie rock and folk band from Twickenham, formed in 2006 and dissolved in 2015.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Northumbrian Pipers' Society

The Northumbrian Pipers' Society was founded to promote both types of Northumbrian bagpipes – the Northumbrian smallpipes and the half-long pipes, now generally known as the Border pipes.

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Northumbrian Small Pipes Society

The Northumbrian Small Pipes Society was founded in 1893, by members of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne to promote interest in, and playing of Northumbrian smallpipes, and their music.

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Northumbrian smallpipes

The Northumbrian smallpipes (also known as the Northumbrian pipes) are bellows-blown bagpipes from Northeastern England, where they have been an important factor in the local musical culture for more than 250 years.

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On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

"On Ilkla Mooar Baht 'at" (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) is a folk song from Yorkshire, England.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Oysterband

Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) is a British folk rock and folk punk band formed in Canterbury around 1976.

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Padstow

Padstow (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Pastime with Good Company

"Pastime with Good Company", also known as "The King's Ballad" ("The Kynges Balade"), is an English folk song written by King Henry VIII in the early 16th century, when he was in his early twenties, teens or even younger.

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Pavane

The pavane (pavana, padovana; Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance).

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Peasants' Revolt

The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.

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Pentangle (band)

Pentangle are a British folk band, formed in London in 1967.

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Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.

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Peter Bellamy

Peter Franklyn Bellamy (8 September 1944 – 24 September 1991) was an English folk singer.

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Peter Burke (historian)

Ulick Peter Burke (born 16 August 1937) is a British polymath, historian and professor.

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Peter Kennedy (folklorist)

Peter Douglas Kennedy (18 November 1922 – 10 June 2006) was an influential English folklorist and folk song collector throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman (written 1370–86; possibly) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.

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Pipe and tabor

Pipe and tabor is a pair of instruments played by a single player, consisting of a three-hole pipe played with one hand, and a small drum played with the other.

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Polka

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

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Progressive folk

Progressive folk is a style of contemporary folk that adds new layers of musical and lyrical complexity, often incorporating various ethnic influences.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Protest song

A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).

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Proverb

A proverb (from proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience.

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Psychedelic folk

Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Quintessence (English band)

Quintessence was a rock band formed in April 1969 in Notting Hill, London, England.

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Radio ballad

The radio ballad is an audio documentary format created by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Parker in 1958.

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Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell (born Ralph May; 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Rapper sword

Rapper sword (also known as short sword dance) is a variation of sword dance unique to Northumberland and County Durham.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

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Robert Bell (writer)

Robert Bell (16 January 180012 April 1867) was an Irish man of letters.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods.

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Rothbury

Rothbury is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the River Coquet.

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Rottingdean

Rottingdean is a village in the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England.

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Roud Folk Song Index

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

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Roxburghe Ballads

In 1847 John Payne Collier (1789–1883) printed A Book of Roxburghe Ballads.

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Roy Harper (singer)

Roy Harper (born 12 June 1941) is an English folk rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England.

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Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar.

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Sam Larner

Samuel James Larner (18 October 1878 – 11 September 1965) was an English fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton-on-Sea, a fishing village in Norfolk, England.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Séamus Ennis

Séamus Ennis (Séamas Mac Aonghusa; 5 May 1919 – 5 October 1982) was an Irish musician, singer and Irish music collector.

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Scan Tester

Lewis "Scan" Tester (7 September 1887 – May 1972) was an English folk and English country musician.

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Scarborough Fair (ballad)

"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scrumpy and Western

Fred Wedlock Scrumpy and Western refers humorously to music from England's West Country that fuses comical folk-style songs, often full of double entendre, with affectionate parodies of more mainstream musical genres, all delivered in the local accent/dialect. English folk music and Scrumpy and Western are English styles of music.

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Sea shanty

A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels.

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Seth Lakeman

Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but also plays the viola and banjo.

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Shawm

The shawm is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.

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Shirley Collins

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935) is an English folk singer who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Show of Hands

Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots/folk duo formed in 1986 by singer-songwriter Steve Knightley (guitars, mandolin, mandocello, cuatro) and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer (vocals, guitars, violin, viola, mandolin, mandocello).

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Shrewsbury

("May Shrewsbury Flourish") --> Shrewsbury is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Shropshire, England.

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Sidmouth Folk Festival

There has been a folk festival in the coastal town of Sidmouth in South West England in the first week of August every year since 1955, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to over 700 diverse events.

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Sidney Jones (composer)

James Sidney Jones (17 June 1861 – 29 January 1946), usually credited as Sidney Jones, was an English conductor and composer, who was most famous for composing the musical scores for a series of musical comedy hits in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.

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Skiffle

Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.

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Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music.

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Social dance

Social dances are dances that have social functions and context.

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Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne

The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, the oldest provincial antiquarian society in England, was founded in 1813.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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Song

A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.

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South Australia (song)

"South Australia" (Roud # 325) is a sea shanty, also known under such titles as "Rolling King" and "Bound for South Australia".

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South East England

South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

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Spanish Ladies

"Spanish Ladies" (Roud 687) is a traditional British naval song, typically describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs from the viewpoint of ratings of the Royal Navy.

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Spiers and Boden

Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo.

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Spirogyra (band)

Spirogyra were a British folk rock/prog band that released three albums between 1971 and 1973.

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Spriguns of Tolgus

Spriguns of Tolgus (aka Spriguns) were a British folk rock group formed in 1972.

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Staffordshire Potteries

The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Tunstall and Stoke (which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent) in Staffordshire, England.

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Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior.

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Step dance

Step dance is a generic term for dance styles in which footwork is considered to be the most important part of the dance and limb movements and styling are either restricted or considered irrelevant.

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Street cries

Street cries are the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services in open-air markets.

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Streets of London (song)

"Streets of London" is a folk song by Ralph McTell, who first recorded it for his 1969 album Spiral Staircase. It was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Sussex

Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.

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Sweet Nightingale

Sweet Nightingale, also known as Down in those valleys below, is a Cornish folk song.

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Tabor (instrument)

A tabor,, tabret (Tabwrdd), tambour de Provence, Provençal tambourin or Catalan tamborí is a portable snare drum, typically played either with one hand or with two drumsticks.

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Terry Cox

Terence William Harvey 'Terry' Cox (born 13 March 1937, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) played drums in the British folk rock bands The Pentangle, Duffy's Nucleus and Humblebums.

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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom.

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The Albion Band

The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings.

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The Ballad of Chevy Chase

"The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223See). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which narrate the same story.

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The Border Surrender

The Border Surrender were an English rock band based in North London.

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The British Grenadiers

"The British Grenadiers" is a traditional marching song of British and Commonwealth military units whose badge of identification features a grenade, the tune of which dates from the 17th century.

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The Dancing Master

The Dancing Master (first edition: The English Dancing Master) is a dancing manual containing the music and instructions for English country dances.

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The Deighton Family

The Deighton Family is an English folk ensemble from Yorkshire, England.

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The Elfin Knight

"The Elfin Knight" is a traditional Scottish folk ballad of which there are many versions, all dealing with supernatural occurrences, and the commission to perform impossible tasks.

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The High Level Ranters

The High Level Ranters are a Northumbrian traditional musical group founded in 1964, best known for being one of the first bands in the revival of the Northumbrian smallpipes.

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The Holly and the Ivy

"The Holly and the Ivy" is a traditional British folk Christmas carol, listed as number 514 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

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The Incredible String Band

The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966.

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The Men They Couldn't Hang

The Men They Couldn't Hang (TMTCH) are a British folk punk group.

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The Oxford Companion to Music

The Oxford Companion to Music is a music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press.

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The Pogues

The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish phrase ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse".

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The Sailor's Hornpipe

The Sailor's Hornpipe (also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad) is a traditional hornpipe melody and linked dance with origins in the Royal Navy.

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The Settlers (band)

The Settlers were an English folk-orientated music group, originally from the English West Midlands, who formed in the mid-1960s.

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The Song of the Western Men

"The Song of the Western Men", also known as "Trelawny", is a Cornish patriotic song, composed by Louisa T. Clare for lyrics by Robert Stephen Hawker.

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The Unthanks

The Unthanks (until 2009 called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset) are an English folk group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music, with other musical genres.

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The Watersons

The Watersons were an English folk group from Hull, Yorkshire.

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The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth

The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth is the debut album by British folk metal band Skyclad, and is regarded as one of the first folk metal albums, with the track "The Widdershins Jig" in particular pointing the way for the genre.

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The Wurzels

The Wurzels are an English Scrumpy and Western band from Somerset, England, best known for their number one hit "The Combine Harvester" and number three hit "I Am a Cider Drinker" in 1976.

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The Yetties

The Yetties (John "Bonny" Sartin, Pete Shutler, and Mac McCulloch) were an English folk music group, who took their name from the Dorset village of Yetminster, their childhood home.

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The Young Tradition

The Young Tradition were an English folk group of the 1960s, formed by Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood and Heather Wood.

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Third Ear Band

Third Ear Band were a British musical group formed in London during the mid-1960s.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

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Thomas d'Urfey

Thomas d'Urfey (26 February 1723) was an English writer and playwright.

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Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore)

Thomas Percy (13 April 1729 – 30 September 1811) was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland.

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Thrash metal

Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo.

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To Be a Pilgrim

"To Be a Pilgrim", also known as "He Who Would Valiant Be", is an English Christian hymn using words of John Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress, first appearing in Part 2 of The Pilgrim's Progress, written in 1684.

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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book

Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.

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Tommy Thumb's Song Book

Tommy Thumb's Song Book is the earliest known collection of British nursery rhymes, printed in 1744.

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Tony Capstick

Joseph Anthony Capstick (27 July 1944 – 23 October 2003) was an English comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster.

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Topic Records

Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival.

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Trees (band)

Trees was a British folk rock band recording and touring throughout 1969, 1970 and 1971, reforming briefly to continue performing throughout 1972.

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House.

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Vihuela

The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute.

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Wakes week

The Wakes Week is a holiday period in parts of England and Scotland.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Walter Pardon

Walter Pardon (4 March 1914 – 9 June 1996) was an English carpenter, folk singer and recording artist from Knapton, Norfolk, England.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.

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Waltz

The waltz, meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple (4 time), performed primarily in closed position.

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Warwick

Warwick is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon.

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Wassailing

The tradition of wassailing (also spelled wasselling) falls into two distinct categories: the house-visiting wassail and the orchard-visiting wassail.

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West Country

The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

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West Country English

West Country English is a group of English language varieties and accents used by much of the native population of the West Country, an area found in the southwest of England.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial Level for statistical purposes.

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Widecombe Fair

Widecombe Fair is an annual fair in England, held in the Dartmoor village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor on the second Tuesday of September.

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William Langland

William Langland (Willielmus de Langland) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes.

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William Sandys (antiquarian)

William Sandys (1792 – 18 February 1874) (pronounced "Sands") was an English solicitor, member of the Percy Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and remembered for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, Richard Beckley, 1833), a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised.

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Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and composer who was one of the most significant figures in American folk music.

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Work song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either one sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or one linked to a task that may be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wynkyn de Worde

Wynkyn de Worde (died, London) was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognised as the first to popularise the products of the printing press in England.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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See also

Folk music by country

• Alpine folk music
• American folk music
• Armenian folk music
• Australian folk music
• Azerbaijani folk music
• Balkan folk music
• Bangladeshi folk music
• Bhutanese folk music
• Canadian folk music
• Chinese folk music
• Cuban folk music
• Danish traditional music
• English folk music
• French folk music
• Greek traditional music
• Hungarian folk music
• Icelandic folk music
• Indian folk music
• Indonesian folk music
• Iranian folk music
• Irish traditional music
• Italian folk music
• Jamaican folk music
• Japanese folk music
• Korean traditional music
• Kosovan folk music
• List of Montenegrin folk songs
• Lithuanian folk music
• Moravian folk music
• Nordic folk music
• Pakistani folk music
• Philippine folk music
• Russian folk music
• Scottish folk music
• Serbian folk music
• Slovak folk music
• Swedish folk music
• Turkish folk music
• Ukrainian folk music
• Vietnamese folk music

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_folk_music

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