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Launched in June 2013, The Full English is a folk archive of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images; it is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. [1] The archive brings together 19 collections from noted archivists, including Lucy Broadwood , Percy Grainger , Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams .
In the strictest sense, English folk music has existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon people in Britain after 400 AD. The Venerable Bede's story of the cattleman and later ecclesiastical musician Cædmon indicates that in the early medieval period it was normal at feasts to pass around the harp and sing 'vain and idle songs'. [1]
Beautiful Sunday (song) Beer, Beer, Beer; A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs; Bingo (folk song) The Birthday Party (song) The Bishoprick Garland; The Bitter Withy; Blackbird (Beatles song) Blackleg Miner; Blacksmith (song) Blaydon Races; Blow the Man Down; Blow the Wind Southerly; Blyth and Tyneside Poems & Songs; Boar's Head Carol; Bob Cranky's Adieu ...
Hold Down a Chord Book 2: Finger Picking Folk Guitar Styles (BBC Publications, 1969) Saturday Night: Twenty Tabulated Folk Songs for the Guitar (BBC Publications, 1969) The John Pearse single string melody method for folk guitarists (Feldman, 1969) 1st Guide To Guitar – a Simple Course Providing the Basics (Amsco Music Pub., 1970) The John ...
A.L. Lloyd on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume IV (1956) Alfred Deller on Western Wind and Other English Folk Songs (1958) [5] Joan Baez on Joan Baez (1960) A.L. Lloyd and Alf Edwards on English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Topic 1964, 1996) [4] Bert Jansch on Jack Orion (1966) Donovan on H.M.S. Donovan (1971) Figgy Duff on ...
Wor Nanny's a mazer is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Tommy Armstrong, in a style deriving from music hall. It is regarded by many as one of the classics. It is regarded by many as one of the classics.
Folk Den is a folk music website founded in 1995 by Roger McGuinn, former front man of The Byrds. [1] Hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 's ibiblio , the site is intended to preserve and promote folk music and offers a new folk song on a monthly basis.
Spotted Cow" (Roud 956) is a traditional English folk song. The following was written by A. L. Lloyd on the album sleeve notes of Peter Bellamy 's The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate : This innocent idyllic tone and the bits of literary phrase—“cot”, “swain” and such—suggest that this song wasn't made by a country labourer but by ...