communities. English folk music has produced or contributed to several cultural phenomena, including sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and the music for Morris...

Cecil Sharp 1919: English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachian by Cecil Sharp 1922: The Country Dance Book by Cecil Sharp 1923: Folk Songs of the Upper...

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...

Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition...

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

recorded English folk songs Harry Cox (1885–1971), English folk singer Lewis 'Scan' Tester (1886–1972), English folk musician 1651: English Dancing Master...

influenced modern music on a global scale, and the UK has one of the world's largest music industries. English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk music as well as...

Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) 1957: Sings English Folk Songs (Steve Benbow) 1959: Sweet England (Shirley Collins) Music of the United Kingdom (1950s)...

(Fairport Convention) 1999: Ravenchild (Maddy Prior) 1999: Sleepless (Kate Rusby) Music of the United Kingdom (1990s) Music of the United Kingdom (2000s)...

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

distinct from traditional folk music, it often shares the same English name, performers and venues as traditional folk music; even individual songs may...

folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular music...

one of the musicians who participated in the first English Folk Song revival, as well as using folk song tunes in his compositions. He collected his first...

and Gold (Fairport Convention) 1989: Tempted and Tried (Steeleye Span) 1989: 25 Years On The Road (Harvey Andrews) Music of the United Kingdom (1980s)...

Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In A History...

1968: The Pentangle (Pentangle) 1969: Unhalfbricking (Fairport Convention) 1969: Liege and Lief (Fairport Convention) Music of the United Kingdom (1960s)...

The British folk revival incorporates a number of movements for the collection, preservation and performance of folk music in the United Kingdom and related...

folk traditions" or "lowland Christianized folk traditions"; and American Influenced Traditions, including western-influenced art and popular music,...

encounter between American inspired folk rock and the products of the English folk revival. The first English folk music revival had seen a huge effort to...

(Fairport Convention) 2007: The Bairns (Rachel Unthank and the Winterset) 2009: Poetry of the Deed (Frank Turner) Music of the United Kingdom (1990s-present)...

Heritage Lottery Fund, The Folklore Society, the National Folk Music Fund and the English Miscellany Folk Dance Group. An offshoot of the archive, also in 2013...

English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' most famous works. It was first published for the military band as Folk Song...

Force Ten (Steeleye Span) 1978: Tipplers Tales (Fairport Convention) 1979: Farewell Farewell (Fairport Convention) Music of the United Kingdom (1970s)...

Russian folk music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people. Russian Russian folk music is used as the basic foundation...

Music can be divided into genres in numerous ways, sometimes broadly and with polarity, such as for popular music, as opposed to art music or folk music;...

Punjabi folk music (Punjabi: پنجابی لوک موسیقی, Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਲੋਕ ਸੰਗੀਤ or Punjabi Folk) is the traditional music on the traditional musical instruments...

development of old-time music, country music, bluegrass, and rock n' roll, and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Instruments...

Simon (29 Mar 2017). "Identifying the English: essentialism and multiculturalism in contemporary English folk music". Ethnomusicology Forum. 26: 3–25 –...

Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the...

Italian folk music has a deep and complex history. National unification came quite late to the Italian peninsula, so its many hundreds of separate cultures...