English Regional Voices - Name names!

Subject: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Jim Moran
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 04:06 PM

I'm looking for examples of English folk singers - past and present - who perform in distinct regional accents.
For example, just by hearing the performer you could tell where she/he came from e.g Newcastle, West Country, Liverpool and so on.
Thanks in advance.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,punkfolkrock oo arrr
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 04:09 PM

Brenda Wooton

Adge Cutler

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: cnd
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 04:40 PM

Allan Smethurst, "The Singing Postman," from Lincolnshire (though I'm not sure if that's the accent he sang in; not my area of expertise)

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 04:56 PM

I can't think of a single Geordie performer who doesn't!

Cockney...John Foreman
Lancy....Harry Boardman
Norfolk... Sam Larner, Sid Kipper, Damien Barber

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 04:56 PM

Joseph Taylor
Jim Eldon
Will Noble
John Cocking
Mike Tickell
Fred Jordon
etc
etc
etc

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Tradsinger
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 06:17 PM

Yours truly - Hampshire.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Brian Peters
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 06:24 PM

Copper Family & Shirley Collins, Sussex.
The Wilson Family - Teesside.
Bernard Wrigley - Lancashire.
John Tams, Keith Kendrick - Derbyshire.
Loads more...

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Noreen
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 07:45 PM

The Young'Uns, Vin Garbutt - Teesside

Mike Harding - Crumpsall (Manchester)

Dave Webber - Wiltshire

Anni Fentiman - Gateshead

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Dec 15 - 07:59 PM

Sorry cnd, Allan Smethurst, The Singing Postman, definitely sang in a Norfolk accent, having been born elsewhere, but brought up in East Anglia (which does not include Lincolnshire). Having been brought up in Suffolk myself, the accent has some similarities and we loved the fact that someone was singing in "our" accent. I even worked a summer job in The Swan in Lavenham (Suffolk) which features in this wee film of him.
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/756

And wasn't Peter Bellamy also from Norfolk, and the accent shines through on at least some of his songs?

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 05:05 AM

Jez Lowe - co Durham.

Jim Causley - Devon.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 05:47 AM

Billy Spakemon (Black Country)

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Jim Moran
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 07:13 AM

Any "scouse" i.e. Liverpudlian sounding folk singers?
I guess Fred could have answered this one!
The Spinners never sounded Liverpudlian - to my ears.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 07:57 AM

Stan Kelly-Bootle always sounded Scouse to me.

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Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 07:59 AM

The Watersons -- Yorkshire.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 08:00 AM

The High Level Ranters -- Newcastle.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,spoonerman
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 08:16 AM

John Goodluck still sings in broad Suffolk!!

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 09:17 AM

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 09:17 AM

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Jim Moran
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 09:22 AM

Here's Stan and Cilla singing "Liverpool Lullaby".

Stan Kelly

Cilla Black

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 09:37 AM

The Spinners for Liverpool as an international seaport with links to the US, the Caribbean and the rest if the UK.

Harry Boardman and Greg Stephens and the Boatband

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Michael
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 09:55 AM

The Watersons were specifically Kingston-upon-Hull in The East Riding of Yorkshire, very different from Sheffield and Barnsley (South Yorkshire) or North Yorkshire (as Middlesborough WAS before somebody messed with the map).

Mike

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 09:59 AM

Fred Wedlock

Surfin' Turnips

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 10:10 AM

Johnny Handle.

Dave H

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 10:12 AM

The Yetties:- 50 Stone Of Dorset Loveliness!

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Paul Clarke
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 12:10 PM

I'm pretty sure Ben Harker does (fairly new, young singer / guitarist, operates in a duo with a woman Emily / Emma someone: can't call her name to mind right now; I think they won a BBC Young Folk Musician award in last few years). At this remove, I recall his chat more than his singing (though it was good!) and I'm certain he hails from Tyne or Wear valleys way.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Paul Clarke
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 12:11 PM

Brian Peters, who's already contributed to this thread!

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 02:17 PM

Guest don't forget my old sparring partner and many other yorkshire men the one and only Sid calderbank lancashire    Alan cox

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 15 - 02:28 PM

Kate Rusby

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 01:16 AM

The late Bob Cann, Devon.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 05:08 AM

Emily Weygang and Ben Harker above names needed

I sing Sth Yorks accent, as needed or standard[Northern accent] (no long rrs ~ I hate 'em) John Greaves from Whitby sings North Yorkshire ~ see Yorkshire Garland song data base

Steve Gardham from Hull as is Maggie Graham, Hull ~ East Riding accents!

Ray

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Splott Man
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 07:39 AM

Sally Ironmonger - Kent.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,S
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 07:43 AM

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 07:48 AM

Unthanks sisters from Tyne & Wear

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Morris-ey
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 11:25 AM

Gary and Vera Aspey - Lancashire

Cosmotheka - Black Country

John Tams - Derbyshire

Roaring Jelly - ditto

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Jim Moran
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 02:03 PM

I thought that Cosmotheka used to adopt the voice/accent of the music hall performers associated with the material that they covered.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Dec 15 - 08:22 PM

Vin Garbutt, Middlesborough.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Jon Dudley
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 03:07 AM

Bob Lewis - West Sussex

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 05:41 AM

blimey, how long have you got? I mean, it's hard NOT to find a folk singer that doesn't sing in his/her regional accent! That's a big part of what makes folk folk

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,Jim Moran
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 09:24 AM

I'm not sure about that.
Take Liverool, it's had a thriving folk scene for over 50yrs, and yet the vast majority of "folk singers" from there don't sing in a Liverpudlian accent.
Of course, most folkies that I know from Liverpool aren't Scousers.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,John from Kemsing
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 10:46 AM

The late Tony Deane, David Watts and John Hills.
Surrey and Kent.

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 01:54 PM

What about Oxbridge, Thames Valley and Estuary English?

Subject: RE: English Regional Voices - Name names!
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 05 Dec 15 - 04:10 AM

Johnny Doughty - Kent

Moi - Isle of Wight - NOT BLOODY HAMPSHIRE! Rant done.