Genuinely original English singer/songwriter influenced by Nick Drake, Roy Harper e.t.c.

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.

Great links page leads to info on songs & performers

News, gigs, and contact information

A subject guide to Internet resources (largely the World Wide Web) relating to traditional English folk music, song and dance.

Folk venues lists for the Mid West of England. Clubs, sessions, festivals, and dances. Based on Gloucestershire and attached counties, Links to overlapping areas.

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This band was no longer active.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.

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 An archived page from 2012 can be seen at: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)

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!

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

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

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

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.

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. Website closed in 2024 (?) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20 250000000000*/http://www.folk- network.com/

Pages devoted to a single ballad: Tam Lin

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.

Regional folk organisations in the UK.

88 freely downloadable recordings of traditional Yorkshire songs mostly sung by source singers, along with the dots, ABC, provenances, texts, searchable by genres, keywords.