Doesn't get any posher than Early Music, which was a frequent bedfellow of Folk in the 60's/70's with the late great David Munrow* cropping up with Shirley Collins as well as The Young Tradition - and hundreds of other examples such as St George's Canzona, Giles Farnaby's Dream Band, Amazing Blondell etc. exploring the cross-overs with audacity and aplomb. Happily the association lingers in the hurdy-gurdy / bagpipe legacy, none of which are hardly off the shelf but are nevertheless decidedly folk.

Special mention must be made of Sue Harris's oboe (heard to starling effect on such classics as As Among the Many Attractions at the Show Will be a Really High Class Band and The Battle of the Field) and the legend that is Dolly Collin's flute organ - two extremely Posh instruments without which Folk would have been all the poorer.

* Any fan of Early Music wanting an extra special treat this Xmas can do no better than ordering themselves the DVD of David Munrow's 6 part series Early Musical Instruments filmed by Granada TV at Ordsell Hall, Salford in 1976. Order it HERE. Seminal suff & proper posh! See this YouTube clip for a wee taste.