Andy Smythe |
http://andysmythe.com |
English Folk |
Genuinely original English singer/songwriter influenced by Nick Drake, Roy Harper e.t.c.
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Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads |
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ |
English Folk |
The Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community.
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British Music Hall Society |
http://britishmusichallsociety.com/ |
English Folk |
Great links page leads to info on songs &
performers
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Dave Swarbrick's Home Page |
http://www.folkicons.co.uk/swarb.htm |
English Folk |
News, gigs, and contact information
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English folk and traditional music on the Internet |
http://www.englishfolkinfo.org.uk/folkmus.html |
English Folk |
A subject guide to Internet resources (largely the World Wide Web) relating to traditional English folk music, song and dance.
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Gloucestershire etc. Mr Red's Mid West |
http://mister.red/ |
English Folk |
Folk venues lists for the Mid West of England. Clubs, sessions, festivals, and dances. Based on Gloucestershire and attached counties, Links to overlapping areas.
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Jabadaw home page |
https://janiveer.github.io/Jabadaw/ |
English Folk |
Jabadaw play English/European music for concerts and dances on sax, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, bass and drums. This band was no longer active. They reformed in 2017.
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Karen & Colin Thompson |
http://www.btinternet.com/~kcthompson |
English Folk |
A folk duo, performing traditional and contemporary material in a refreshingly, innovative manner.
Site unobtainable. An archived page from 2012 can be seen at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120127002443/http://www.btinternet.com/~kcthompson
(edited by Will Fly)
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Penny Black - Folk Group |
http://www.PennyBlackFolk.co.uk |
English Folk |
Penny Black
"Getting on a bit and think they're worth something" was how Radio Lancashire described this Lancashire Comic folk group (they are serious sometimes!) - and they weren't far wrong, the lads that make-up Penny Black have been around the folk scene since the late 50's.
John Bond fronts the group with his comic (some might say risque) songs and poems and is joined by Pete Skinner (vocals/banjo etc), and Barrie Parker (upright bass and melodian).
Sometimes - when they can't get Barrie out of the rest home - Pete and John appear as a duo - and were introduced at Fylde Folk Festival as "two thirds of a duo" - which they still haven't worked out.
Pop along to the web site and have a laugh - yes there are pictures!
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Prof's Traditional English Music Pages |
http://www.prof.co.uk/english/index.htm |
English Folk |
English folk songs and sea shanties. Sheet music for dance tunes. This was once a terrific Website, but it was last active in 2002. You can still access the Website through this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021004071118/http://www.prof.co.uk/english/index.ht
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Real UK Music |
http://www.realukmusic.co.uk |
English Folk |
Find excellent information and links to folk music and other types of music area websites throughout the UK.
Site unobtainable. 2011 archive page at: http://web.archive.org/web/20111230013702/http://www.realukmusic.co.uk
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Sabine Baring-Gould - Songs of the West |
http://www.sbgsongs.org/ |
English Folk |
The site contains biographical detail about this important Victorian song collector and information about the Baring-Gould Heritage Project. Resources include an index to his manuscripts and an increasing number of songs collected in Devon and Cornwall as PDFs
Previous Website http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk
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Show of Hands - English Acoustic Duo |
http://www.showofhands.co.uk |
English Folk |
Home page for this English Acoustic duo. These guys have been around for years and are easily the best exponents of re-worked English folk song in Europe. Many glorious interpretations of traditional material as well as stunning original material. I can think of no comparisons for them, they are absolutely a one-off.
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South Riding Folk Network |
http://folk-network.com |
English Folk |
Grass-roots organisation promoting the Folk Arts in the South Yorkshire/North Derbyshire region of the U.K. Comprehensive online Folk Arts Directory, publications etc.
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Tam Lin Pages |
http://www.tam-lin.org/index.html |
English Folk |
Pages devoted to a single ballad: Tam Lin
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Traditional Song Forum |
http://www.tradsong.org/ |
English Folk |
The TSF is a national organisation based in the UK that brings together those interested in reseach, collecting and performance of Traditional Song. Our aim is to be inclusive of all the traditions found in the British Isles although the majority of Forum members are interested in the songs originating in these islands.
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UK Folk Links |
https://ukfolklinks.wordpress.com |
English Folk |
Regional folk organisations in the UK.
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Yorkshire Garland Project |
http://yorkshirefolksong.net/ |
English Folk |
88 freely downloadable recordings of
traditional Yorkshire songs mostly sung by
source singers, along with the dots, ABC,
provenances, texts, searchable by genres,
keywords.
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