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The key event in the history of folk music in the counties of the north west of England was the Industrial Revolution, which divided the region economically and culturally into a northern, often highland and pastoral region, in Westmorland and Cumberland and a more urbanised and industrialised southern zone with large and growing conurbations ...
A Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2004. Throughout the history of the British Isles, the land that is now the United Kingdom has been a major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales.
The Bastard King of England; Be My Mistake; 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 ...
This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( October 2021 ) This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England, UK .
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Language Type Spoken in Numbers of speakers in the UK English: Germanic (West Germanic) : Throughout the United Kingdom UK (2021 data): 91.1% (52.6 million) of usual residents, aged three years and over, had English (English or Welsh in Wales) as a main language (down from 92.3%, or 49.8 million, in 2011) [22]
Song Year adopted Lyricist(s) Composer(s) Audio Cornwall The Song of the Western Men (Trelawney) Unofficial: Robert Stephen Hawker: Louisa T. Clare County Durham Blaydon Races: Unofficial: George Ridley: Unknown Cumberland D'ye ken John Peel: Unofficial: John Woodcock Graves: Unknown Lincolnshire The Lincolnshire Poacher: Unofficial: Unknown ...
In the 2011 UK Census, 273,000 people identified Punjabi as their first language. Of these, 271,000 were in England, 23,000 in Scotland, 1,600 in Wales and a smaller number in Northern Ireland. [11] [12] Thus, Punjabi is the third most commonly spoken language in the UK. [13] The Southall area of Greater London is home to a significant Punjabi ...