The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music traditionally was preserved and 查看更多內容

Folk festivals began to be organised by the EFDSS from about 1950, usually as local or regional event with an emphasis on dance, like the Sidmouth Festival (from 1955) and the Keele Festival (1965), which was abandoned in 1981 but reinstituted three years later … 查看更多內容

East Anglia
Like many regions of England there are few distinctive local instruments and many songs were … 查看更多內容

Although there were a handful of clubs that allowed space for the performance of traditional folk music by the early 1950s, its major boost … 查看更多內容

The difficulty of gaining regular appearances on television in England has long meant that radio has remained the major popular medium for increasing awareness of … 查看更多內容

Ballads
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet 查看更多內容

• List of selected, noteworthy folk musicians and bands (with an emphasis on artists from Britain and the U.S.A.) as contained in the Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music (pub. … 查看更多內容