Folk Hall of Fame

Subject: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 06:46 AM

From the BBC 2 website:

"This year's awards will see the addition of a new element - the Radio 2 Folk Awards Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame will recognise the special contribution of an individual to the world of folk music; someone whose impact and influence has had a lasting impression.

The first entrant to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is Cecil Sharp - widely regarded as being a key figure in having helped lay the foundations for the modern folk revival in the early 20th century."

So, who else would we put in the Folk Hall of Fame?

Ok, I open with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger

Best wishes

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: DMcG
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 06:50 AM

Frank Kidson: Absolutely key figure, strangely undervalued.

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Young Buchan
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 07:41 AM

Francis James Child
John England
William Kimber
Hamish Henderson
Harry Cox
Seamus Ennis
The Stewarts of Blairgowrie
Robin Morton
Jeannie Robertson
Doc Rowe
Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams
The Copper Family from Brasser onwards
Stan Hugill
James Carpenter
Fred Jordan

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Young Buchan
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 07:59 AM

John and Katie Howson
Bert Lloyd
Percy Grainger
Mary Neal/Esperance Morris
Walter Pardon
Packie Manus Byrne
Peta Webb
Sam Larner
Peter Kennedy
Steve Roud
Joe Heaney
Billy Bennington

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Young Buchan
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 08:06 AM

Neil Langham
Sabine Baring Gould
Charlie Wills
Cyril Poacher
Bertrand Bronson
Sam Henry
Scan Tester
Phoebe Smith

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 04:57 AM

The Spinners

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: BobKnight
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 06:51 AM

Stanley Robertson, Lizzie Higgins and Elizabeth Stewart. Okay, they're all relatives of mine, but who can say they're not worthy of inclusion? :)

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: banjoman
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 06:56 AM

All the thousands of floor singers good and not so, who are the people who have kept the tradition of singing and playing alive and kicking.

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 07:22 AM

Dave Jones

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: GUEST,Linda Kelly
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 08:04 AM

Cyril Tawney Graeme Miles

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 10:46 AM

Sam Larner

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 12:04 PM

Is the Hall of Fame confined to British entrants, which are all that we seem to have had suggested thus far?

If not, then Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Josh White, John & Alan Lomax, just for starters, must surely figure.

~M~

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 12:10 PM

And what are the criteria, the forms of contribution made, which may be considered. What about Gerry Sharp of Topic Records? Bill Leader? Fred Woods who founded Folk Review? The Beeb's own Charles Parker, who commissioned the Radio Ballads? Early folk club founders like John Hasted and Russell Quaye in London, Tom Gilfellon, Ali Anderson, Johnny Handle, Colin Ross on Tyneside, Harry Boardman in Manchester? "Enablers" like Eric Winter & Ian A Anderson?....

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: GUEST,Morris-ey
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 12:11 PM

Bill Leader
Nic Jones
Donal Lunny

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Young Buchan
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 01:07 PM

"Is the Hall of Fame confined to British entrants, which are all that we seem to have had suggested thus far?"MtheGM

Erm...actually I think you will find that Child, Bronson, Carpenter and Peggy Seeger were all American, and Ennis, Byre and Heaney all Irish!

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Young Buchan
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 01:15 PM

And Percy Grainger was Australian.

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 02:01 PM

Indeed YB. Silly me!

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Young Buchan
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 02:16 PM

And before anyone writes in: yes, Ursula Vaughan Williams was born in Malta; but I'm not sure she ever held any nationality other than British.

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 04:58 AM

To Folk music here abouts?

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 08:03 AM

Is there a set of rules to determine who qualifies?

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: GUEST,Phil E
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 08:25 AM

Seeing the name Young Buchan got me thinking... Surely the Folk Hall of Fame should have room for

Anachie Gordon
Polly Vaughan
Billy Henry
Peggy Gordon (no relation)
George Collins
William Taylor (deceased)
Young Tambling
Young Hunting
Young Waters
Sweet William (and Lady Marget)
Lord Bateman
Lord Maxwell
Lord Marlborough
Lord Carter
and of course
Sir Patrick Spens

They may be aristocrats, they may be enchanted, they may even be fictional, but give them their due - without them we'd have nothing to sing about.

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 08:28 AM

Good point Ms/Mr GUEST,

I feel sure the BBC will have rules for theirs. They will almost certainly keep quiet about them and hence much unhappiness will be generated,

I launched this to see how people here on Mudcat, clearly a good cross section of well balanced people with a deep and wide experience of all that is folk, to see whom we feel have done, and in some cases continue to do, good things to them old songs, tunes and customs.

Best wishes

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 08:43 AM

Great idea Phil,

and we cannot forget Barbara Allan and Geordie - they've been around the block a bit

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 12:22 PM

Bela Bartok
Anton Dvorak
Franz Liszt
Johannes Brahms

?????

Subject: RE: Folk Hall of Fame
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 12:28 PM

"Great idea Phil"
.,,.
Disagree. Merely facetious attempt to sabotage reasonably promising serious thread -- even if OP does purport to like the silly idea.

[Unless we are going to offer the Nobel Prize for Literature to Lucky Jim or Little Dorrit or Macbeth or Œdipus Tyrannus...]