• 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. Though...
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  • Britain and Europe, a distinct, eclectic British folk rock style was created by Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Alan Stivell. Inspired by British psychedelic...
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  • subgenres were created in Britain in this period, by pursuing the limitations of rock music, including British folk rock and glam rock, a process that reached...
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    the British Isles, the land that is now the United Kingdom has been a major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music...
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  • sub-culture of folk clubs and folk festivals as well as influential subgenres including progressive folk music and British folk rock. Social and cultural...
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    would be joined by new acts in new styles and subgenres. British folk rock developed in Britain during the mid to late 1960s by the bands Fairport Convention...
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  • which combined elements of early music with rock music. It grew out of the British folk rock and progressive folk movements of the late 1960s. Despite the...
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  • particularly classical and rock music, influencing musical styles and producing musical fusions, such as British folk rock, folk punk and folk metal. There remains...
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  • Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock. It was popularized in the early 1980s by The Pogues in England...
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  • musicians who have both significant folk and rock elements in their music, even if they are not considered primarily folk rock artists. Chava Alberstein Eric...
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    radically developed by British musicians, including: blues rock, heavy metal music, progressive rock, punk rock, British folk rock, folk punk, acid jazz, drum...
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    the American folk music revival. Fusion genres such as folk rock and others also evolved within this phenomenon. While contemporary folk music is a genre...
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    Battlefield Band, The Clutha, and The Whistlebinkies. Celtic rock developed as a variant of British folk rock by Scottish groups including the JSD Band and Spencer's...
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  • music, folk rock and British folk rock playing, particularly in Britain, Ireland, North America and France. Particularly notable in the folk baroque...
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    Fairport Convention (category English folk rock groups)
    which laid the groundwork for British folk rock by being the first time a traditional British song was combined with a rock beat. Shortly before the album's...
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    Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) is a British folk rock and folk punk band formed in Canterbury around 1976. The band formed in parallel to Fiddler's...
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  • location of Ship to Shore Ship to Shore is a 2024 studio album by British folk rock musician Richard Thompson, released on New West Records. It has received...
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  • The album takes medieval influence and combines it with the band's British folk rock style. The lineup on the album includes Bob Johnson and Rick Kemp...
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  • Beatles. In turn, the Byrds' vocal harmonies inspired those of Yes, and British folk rock bands like Fairport Convention, who emphasised instrumental virtuosity...
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  • five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes Pentangle (band), a British folk rock band The Pentangle (album), a 1968 album by Pentangle Miss Pentangle...
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  • the late 1960s as a British blues band, heavily influenced by jazz and British folk rock, who later moved into progressive rock Jonas Lindberg & The...
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  • Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third album the group released in the UK during 1969, all...
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  • like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, Southern rock, raga rock, and jazz rock, which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock, influenced...
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  • Indie folk (also called alternative folk) is an alternative genre of music that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by...
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    Dave Swarbrick (category British folk rock musicians)
    credited with initiating the British folk rock movement. This, and his subsequent career, helped create greater interest in British traditional music and was...
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  • 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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  • roots music, blues, British folk rock, and world music as well as traditional British folk music. From 2000, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards have included...
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  • Sandy Denny (category British folk rock musicians)
    was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer". After briefly...
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