In Dickens and Hardy, there are quite a few scenes described where a lone fiddler or two fiddlers play all the tunes for a social dance ("A Christmas Carol", "The Pickwick Papers", "Under The Greenwood Tree", etc.). And I suppose music would have been played in public houses and inns - though I can't recall offhand anything in fiction that describes that.

A quote half remembered- some traveller in a Lancashire inn kept awake by "the doodle-doodle-doodle of the bagpipe"- which incidentally makes it clear they were playing 3/2 hornpipes.

There's also the Christmas dance at the turning point of Eliot's Silas Marner. But these were in many ways just jukeboxes- it was the only way to get music. You can only call the consumers of this music "part of a tradition" in that they hadn't an alternative.