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Acoustic music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.
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Aidan O'Rourke (musician)
Aidan O'Rourke (born 1975) is a Scottish contemporary folk music fiddle player and composer.
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Al Stewart
Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Altan (band)
Altan are an Irish folk music band formed in County Donegal in 1987 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy.
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Aly Bain
Aly Bain MBE (born 15 May 1946) is a Scottish fiddler who learned his instrument from the old-time master Tom Anderson.
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Anaïs Mitchell
Anaïs Mitchell (born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
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Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer.
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Andy Partridge
Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer from Swindon.
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Arrogance Ignorance and Greed
Arrogance Ignorance and Greed is the fourteenth studio album by English folk duo Show of Hands.
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Ashley Hutchings
Ashley Stephen Hutchings, MBE (born 26 January 1945) is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Four
BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.
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BBC iPlayer
BBC iPlayer is an internet streaming, catchup, television and radio service from the BBC.
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BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
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BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.
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BBC Red Button
BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.
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Bella Hardy
Bella Hardy is a contemporary folk musician, singer and songwriter from Edale in Derbyshire, who performs a combination of traditional and self-penned material.
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Bellowhead
Bellowhead was an English contemporary folk band, active from 2004 to 2016.
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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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Bill Jones (musician)
Bill Jones (born Belinda Jones in Staffordshire, England) is an English folk singer/songwriter.
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Bill Leader
Bill Leader (born 1929) is an English recording engineer and record producer.
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Billy Bragg
Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Blair Dunlop
Blair Dunlop (born 11 February 1992) is an English musician and actor.
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Brendan Power
Brendan Power is a New Zealand harmonica player, composer and inventor, living in Britain.
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Britain's Got Talent (series 6)
Series Six of Britain's Got Talent, a British talent competition series, began broadcasting in the UK during 2012, from 24 March to 12 May on ITV - many media outlets criticised the series' premiere date, believing it was a deliberate attempt to start a "ratings war" with the BBC, which was launching The Voice UK at the same time.
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Broadside (album)
Broadside is the fourth full album by Bellowhead, released on 15 October 2012.
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Cambridge Folk Festival
The Cambridge Folk Festival is an annual music festival, established in 1965, held on the site of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the city of Cambridge, England.
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Cara Dillon
Cara Elizabeth Dillon (born 21 July 1975, Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish folk singer.
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Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
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Catriona McKay
Catriona McKay is Scottish harpist and composer.
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Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was the founding father of the folk-song revival in England in the early 20th century.
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Celtic Connections
The Celtic Connections festival started in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been held every January.
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Cherish the Ladies
Cherish the Ladies is an American female super group that plays Celtic music.
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Chris Stout
Chris Stout (born 1976) is a Scottish fiddle/violin player from Shetland, now based in Glasgow.
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Chris Thile
Christopher Scott Thile (born February 20, 1981) is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers.
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Chris While
Chris While (born 1956) is a British 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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Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Clannad
Clannad are an Irish family band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal.
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Copper Family
The Copper Family are a family of singers of traditional, unaccompanied English folk song.
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Danú
Danú is an Irish traditional music band.
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Danny Thompson
Daniel Henry Edward "Danny" Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist.
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Daoirí Farrell
Daoirí Farrell is an Irish folk singer and player of the Irish bouzouki.
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Dartford
Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England.
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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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Dónal Lunny
Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer.
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Dick Gaughan
Richard Peter Gaughan (born 17 May 1948 in Glasgow) is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs.
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Don McLean
Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Donovan
Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Dougie MacLean
Dougie MacLean, OBE (born 27 September 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle.
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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, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright and record producer born in Lancashire to Scottish parents.
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Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band.
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Faultlines (album)
Faultlines is the debut studio album by Scottish folk musician Karine Polwart, released on 19 January 2004.
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Fisherman's Friends
Fisherman's Friends are a male singing group from Port Isaac, Cornwall, who sing sea shanties.
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Flook (band)
Flook is an Anglo-Irish band playing traditional-style instrumental music, much of it penned by the band themselves.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Freedom Fields
Freedom Fields is an album by Seth Lakeman released twice in 2006.
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Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is an arts venue, in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar are a British folk music duo.
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Guy Garvey
Guy Edward John Garvey (born 6 March 1974) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and BBC 6 Music presenter.
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Hill of Thieves
Hill of Thieves is the fourth solo album by Irish folk singer Cara Dillon.
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Hitchin
Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 33,350.
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Home Service
Home Service is a British folk rock group, formed in late 1980 from a nucleus of musicians who had been playing in Ashley Hutchings' Albion Band.
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Hughie Graham
"Hughie Graham" or "Hughie Graeme" is Child ballad number 191, existing in several variants.
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Jackie Oates
Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player.
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James Fagan
James Fagan (born 1972) is a folk musician from Sydney, Australia.
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James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Jim Moray
Jim Moray (born 1981) is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
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Joan Armatrading
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE (born 9 December 1950) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.
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Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer.
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John Kirkpatrick (musician)
John Kirkpatrick (born 8 August 1947) is an English player of free reed instruments.
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John Martyn
Iain David McGeachy, OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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John McCusker
John McCusker (born 15 May 1973) is a Scottish folk musician, record producer and composer.
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John Prine
John Prine (born October 10, 1946) is an American country folk singer-songwriter.
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John Tams
John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician.
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Jon Boden
Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead.
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Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards) and for her social activism.
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Julie Fowlis
Julie Fowlis (born 20 June 1978) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
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Julie Matthews
Julie Matthews is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.
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June Tabor
June Tabor (born 31 December 1947 in Warwick, England) is an English folk singer known for her solo work as well as for her earlier collaborations with Maddy Prior and with the Oyster Band.
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Karine Polwart
Karine Polwart (born 23 December 1970) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.
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Kate Rusby
Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) KateRusby.com (Retrieved: 19 July 2009) is an English folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley.
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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 player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle.
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Kris Drever
Kris Drever (born 31 October 1978) is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, Black Water.
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La Bottine Souriante
La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Canada.
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Lau (band)
Lau is a British folk band from both Scotland and England, formed in 2005.
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Levellers (band)
Levellers are an English folk rock band formed in Brighton, England in 1988, consisting of Mark Chadwick (guitar and vocals), Jeremy Cunningham (bass guitar), Charlie Heather (drums), Jon Sevink (violin), Simon Friend (guitar) and Matt Savage (keyboards).
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Liege & Lief
Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the English folk rock band Fairport Convention.
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Linda Thompson (singer)
Linda Thompson (née Pettifer, 23 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer.
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Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor.
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Lucy Durán
Lucy Durán is an ethnomusicologist, music producer and radio presenter.
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Lucy Ward (musician)
Lucy Victoria Ward (born 12 December 1989) is a British singer-songwriter from Derby.
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Maggie Holland
Maggie Holland is an English singer and songwriter.
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Mark Radcliffe
Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English broadcaster, musician and writer.
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Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional 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.
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Martin Hayes (musician)
Martin Hayes (born 4 July 1962) is an Irish fiddler from County Clare.
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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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Megan Henwood
Megan Henwood (born 29 October 1987) is an English singer-songwriter from Oxfordshire.
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Meredydd Evans
Meredydd Evans (9 December 1919 – 21 February 2015), known colloquially as Merêd, was a collector, editor, historian and performer of folk music of Wales written in the Welsh language.
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Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, Manchester, England) Is a Folk Musician who plays Wooden flute, Uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran He also plays other instruments such as Acoustic guitar cittern and mandolin on some of his tracks.
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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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Moore Moss Rutter
Moore Moss Rutter is a contemporary folk music trio formed in the UK in 2009.
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Mount the Air
Mount the Air, the eighth album by English folk group the Unthanks, was released on 9 February 2015.
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Nanci Griffith
Nanci Caroline Griffith (born July 6, 1953) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, reared in Austin, Texas, who currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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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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Nettlebed
Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills about northwest of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire and southeast of Wallingford.
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Nic Jones
Nicolas Paul "Nic" Jones (born 9 January 1947) is an English folk singer, fingerstyle guitarist and fiddle player who was most active in the years 1964–1982.
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Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.
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Norma Waterson
Norma Christine Waterson (born 15 August 1939) is an English musician, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a celebrated English traditional group.
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Olivia Chaney
Olivia Chaney (born 1982) is an English folk singer, pianist, guitarist, harmonium player and songwriter.
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Oysterband
Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) is a British folk rock and folk punk band formed in Canterbury in or around 1976.
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Paul Brady
Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician, whose work straddles folk and pop.
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Peggy Seeger
Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger.
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Pentangle
Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz band with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues and folk rock influences.
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Phil Cunningham (folk musician)
Philip Martin Cunningham, MBE, born 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland is a Scottish folk musician and composer.
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Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin are an English folk music duo.
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Prodigal Son (Martin Simpson album)
Prodigal Son is a 2007 album recorded by the English guitarist Martin Simpson and released on the Topic Records label.
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Proper Music Distribution
Since 1988, Proper Music Distribution has grown to become the largest totally independent distributor in the UK, with annual sales of over £25million.
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Radio station
A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.
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Ralph McTell
Ralph McTell (born Ralph May, 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s.
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliot Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and performer.
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Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician.
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Richard Thompson (musician)
Richard Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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Rory McLeod (singer-songwriter)
Rory McLeod (born 1957 London, England) is a British folk singer-songwriter.
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Roy Bailey (folk singer)
Roy Bailey (born 20 October 1935, London), is an English socialist folk singer.
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Roy Harper (singer)
Roy Harper (born 12 June 1941) is an English folk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since 1964.
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Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.
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Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer.
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Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, and record producer.
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Sam Carter (musician)
Sam Carter is a British guitarist, singer and songwriter, originally from the English Midlands but more recently based in East London.
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Sam Lee (folk musician)
Sam Lee (born 6 July 1980) is a British folk singer and traditional music specialist.
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Sam Sweeney
Sam Sweeney (born 27 February 1989 in Nottingham) is a multi-instrumental English folk musician.
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Sandy Denny
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention.
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Sean Lakeman
Sean Lakeman (born 1974) is an English folk musician and record producer.
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Seth Lakeman
Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English folk 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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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 a multi-award-winning 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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Spiers and Boden
Spiers and Boden were an English folk duo.
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Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969.
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Steve Earle
Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor.
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Steve Knightley
Steve Knightley (born 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and acoustic musician.
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Steve Tilston
Steve Tilston (born 26 March 1950) is an English folk singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments.
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The Banks of Newfoundland
"The Banks Of Newfoundland" is the earliest Newfoundland composition set down in music notation.
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The Bitter Withy
The Bitter Withy (Roud #452) is an English folk song reflecting an unusual and apocryphal vernacular idea of Jesus Christ.
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The Chieftains
The Chieftains are a traditional Irish band formed in Dublin in 1963, by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy.
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The Dubliners
The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.
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The Famous Flower of Serving-Men
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men or The Lady turned Serving-Man is Child Ballad number 106Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, and a murder ballad.
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The Gloaming (group)
The Gloaming is a contemporary Irish/American music group, formed in 2011 by musicians Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh, Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman).
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The Imagined Village
The Imagined Village is a folk musical project founded by Simon Emmerson of the Afro Celt Sound System.
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The Lowry
The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex situated on Pier 8 at Salford Quays, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.
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The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America.
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The Rails
The Rails is a folk rock band from London, England, composed of husband and wife James Walbourne and Kami Thompson.
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The Ram Folk Club
The Ram Folk Club is a folk club in the borough of Elmbridge in suburban north Surrey, one of only a few folk clubs in the Home Counties close to London.
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The Unthanks
The Unthanks (until 2009, 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 Young'uns
The Young'uns are an English folk group from Stockton, County Durham, England, who won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Best Group" award in 2015 and 2016.
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Tim Edey
Tim Edey is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer who grew up in Broadstairs, Kent and is now living in Ardara Co.
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Tim Van Eyken
Tim van Eyken is an English guitarist and melodeon player of Belgian descent.
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Tom Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years.
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Tommy Sands (Irish singer)
Tommy Sands (born 19 December 1945), Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, is a folk singer, songwriter, radio broadcaster, and political activist.
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Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician, writer, and diarist.
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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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Transatlantic Sessions
Transatlantic Sessions is the collective title for a series of musical productions by Glasgow-based Pelicula Films Ltd, funded by- and produced for BBC Scotland, BBC Four and RTÉ of Ireland.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Van Diemen's Land (folk song)
Van Diemen's Land or Henry the Poacher, Young Henry's Downfall, Beware Young Men (Roud 221).
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Vin Garbutt
Vincent Paul Garbutt (20 November 1947 – 6 June 2017) was an English folk singer and songwriter.
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Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales.
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Waterfront Hall
Belfast Waterfront is a multi-purpose conference and entertainment centre, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by local architects' firm Robinson McIlwaine.
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Waterson–Carthy
Waterson–Carthy (stylised as Waterson:Carthy) are an English folk group originally comprising Norma Waterson on vocals, her husband Martin Carthy on guitar and vocals and their daughter Eliza Carthy on fiddle and vocals.
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Wentworth, South Yorkshire
Wentworth is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England.
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Westhoughton
Westhoughton is a town and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.
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Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour (born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician.
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7digital
7digital Group Plc is a publicly listed digital music and radio services platform.
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9Bach
9Bach is an alternative folk group formed by Welsh singer-songwriter and pianist Lisa Jên and guitarist Martin Hoyland, a veteran of 1990s alt-rock band Pusherman.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards
