• November 10, 2020. Sylvia Woods Harp Center International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen Somerset Folk Harp Festival Sylvia Woods Harp Center...
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'Folk Songs from Somerset', which provided themes for his English Folk Song Suite. In the second folk revival the most famous West...
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    Festival, the American Folk Festival and, most recently, the Montana Folk Festival. The Newport Folk Festival is an annual folk festival held near Newport...
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    Maggie Rogers (category American folk musicians)
    At school, she played harp in the orchestra, sang in the choir, joined a jazz band, learned banjo and became interested in folk music, and taught herself...
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  • connection between traditional folk music, modern rock music and world music with his 1972 album Renaissance of the Celtic Harp. Around the same time, Stivell's...
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    cider-producing counties in the South West of England (primarily Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire) or South East England (Kent...
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    Gumboot Day. British folk sports Shoe tossing World Black Pudding Throwing Championships Ziegler, Philip (1978). Crown and People. Harper Collins. p. 186....
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    (2015–present) Former Andy Stewart – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2009–2015) Jon Harper – drums (2009–2011) Touring Tina Maynard – rhythm and lead guitar, keyboards...
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    Aoife O'Donovan (category American folk singers)
    venues. The group was invited to perform at the Newport Folk Festival and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the same year they released their debut album, Hop High...
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  • tutelary deity. Dakini is the patron of those who seek knowledge. Chinese folk religion, both past and present, includes myriad tutelary deities. Exceptional...
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    Samhain (category Autumn festivals)
    [ˈsˠəunʲ], Scottish Gaelic: [ˈs̪ãũ.ɪɲ]) or Sauin (Manx: [ˈsoːɪnʲ]) is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter...
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  • England traditionally celebrates a number of Christian and secular festivals. Most are observed throughout the country but some, such as Oak Apple Day...
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  • history. Strengthened by a series of 20th century revivals, traditional folk music has a popular following. It is accompanied by traditions of pipers...
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    Al Stewart (category British folk rock musicians)
    small town of Pilton, Somerset. There, at Michael Eavis's Worthy Farm, Stewart performed at the first-ever Glastonbury Festival to a field of 1,000 hippies...
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    Glastonbury Festival is a greenfield music and performing arts festival on farm land near Pilton, England. It was first held in 1970 and has been held...
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    Hornpipe (category European folk dances)
    breeches both fore and aft. The hornpipe is an Irish, Scottish and English folk dance and tune. It is done in hard shoes, which are used to help keep track...
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    major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales...
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    However, the word 'pixie' (under various forms) also appears in Dorset, Somerset and to a lesser extent in Sussex, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Similar to the...
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    317796°N 2.272950°W / 51.317796; -2.272950 The Village Pump Festival is a folk music festival that takes place near Trowbridge, England. It has its roots...
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    Erin Hill (category Nerd-folk musicians)
    Hill: vocals, harp Let It Snow by Jewel (September 2013) Somerset Group, Ltd. Erin Hill: harp Clear Blue Tuesday (Soundtrack for the Original Musical Movie)...
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  • them Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass and Sore Throat. Folk punk or rogue folk is a fusion of folk music and punk rock, or occasionally other genres, which...
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    Recording in Progress : Somerset House". Somerset House. Retrieved 3 February 2015. "Reviewed! PJ Harvey: Recording In Progress, Somerset House, London, January...
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  • The Wicker Man (category Folk horror films)
    The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher...
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    Florence and the Machine (category English folk rock groups)
    it was announced that the band would headline the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset due to the withdrawal of previous headliners Foo Fighters, after...
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    several arrangements of folk songs collected by others. The Somerset Rhapsody (1906–07), was written at the suggestion of the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp...
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  • released in January 2000. Arthur Butterworth – Bubu for English horn, viola and harp, Op. 107 Alun Hoddinott – Symphony No. 10 Joe Jackson – Symphony No. 1 James...
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    stages. The band once again played festivals including Stage 2 (Cambridge Folk Festival), Avalon stage (Glastonbury Festival) and Bestival and supported Bellowhead...
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    Harrison 1913 1995 At the Mill – March Bohumir Kryl & His Band 1913 1996 The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls Irving Gillette & Chorus 1913 1997 You'll Do...
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    night of 31 October. Jack-o'-lanterns were also made at Halloween time in Somerset, England (see Punkie Night) during the 19th century. By those who made...
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  • Badakhshan Thrace Karadeniz Individual countries England Cornwall Northumbria Somerset Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Cities: Birmingham Classical music of Birmingham...
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