English Music

An independent site about English folk music
with an emphasis on the performers of
traditional and instrumental music.

Features many major performers of English folk music
with album reviews, original photographs, sound clips, and links.

Click here for brief introduction to this site

Contents This site is in 3 main parts (see also the search facility below) Part 1: Performers Please select from the following links: Fairport Convention Dave Swarbrick Steeleye Span Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band Ashley Hutchings and the Albion Band - also includes Morris On and its descendants. The Old Swan Band and related musicians - includes The English Country Dance Band, Token Women, Rod Stradling, Jo Freya. Other Major Performers of English Folk Music - an unsorted list with brief details. Part 2: Morris Dancing Original pictures and descriptions of morris sides. Links. Herbaceous Border The travelling border morris side which invites all to join in! Part 3: Folk Music in the South Folk festivals in the South and South West, and links to other related sites. Throughout these pages these icons indicate links to pictures or sound. When they appear, click the icon. Pictures. Mostly original photographs by the author of this site. Please enquire if you wish to use copies of these, or if you require a larger, high quality version. Sound clip. Indicates a short MP3 sound clip. Typical download and playing times are both 1 minute. Note that these are all original recordings by the author and traditional compositions, hence do not break any copyright. The sound quality does not represent that on artists' own C.Ds. Sound clips on this site. Search This Site Find ALL words  Find EXACT phrase  Find ANY word    Help   Site Search by PicoSearch Suggested searches: Traditional instrumental tunes and songs, performers, bands and their members, albums, album tracks, morris sides, folk festivals in the South.

Links to other sites on English folk music.

EFDSS  The English Folk Dance and Song Society.

Folk Roots  Includes the definitive festival list.

Webfeet  An excellent site for folk dance.

The Living Tradition  Folk music of the British Isles.

Traditionalmusic.co.uk A huge collection of folk tunes of the British Isles and America in the form of MIDI files which can be listened to immediately, together with sheet music. Links.

English Ceilidh News and discussion list.

Links to other sites featuring major performers:

Acoustic Music Services - The official home pages of many English folk artists.

The Bee's Knees - "A music information archive" featuring many English folk artists.

Record companies

A selection of record companies who specialize in English folk music.

Topic Records.A long established company from the days of vinyl and still going strong.
www.topicrecords.co.uk

Saydisc. A record label who produce specialist music far from the commercial.
www.saydisc.com

Park Records. The label of Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span and others.
www.parkrecords.com

Veteran. Specialise in English folk music including historic early recordings. Also supply CDs from other labels.
www.veteran.co.uk

Free Reed Records and Music. Free Reed is the label of the Old Swan Band's early work.
www.free-reed.co.uk

Talking Elephant (formerly HTD). They have a range of material from Fairport Convention, Ashley Hutchings and related artists.
www.talkingelephant.co.uk

Music Download Service

Woven Wheat Whispers. Legal folk music download service.
www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk

Vote for English Music

This site at the link below is asking for people to vote for their top 5 albums. It covers all genres but why not vote for some of the excellent albums of English folk music, many of which are featured on the pages of this site.
www.pollthepeople.com

Other English Music.

Early English Musick 1385 to 1714 A huge resource on early composers and publications. Also has a good links page.

Medieval Music & Arts Foundation

The Cyber Hymnal Hymn tunes in MIDI format and words. (Not all English, but includes many hymn tunes which were old English tunes before the hymn words were added.)

British Composer Index Mainly classical.

Links to other sites by the same author:

www.folk-music.org.uk

A site about folk music from the musician's point of view with an emphasis on traditional instrumental dance music.
Sources of traditional tunes, the playing of instruments and some aspects of music theory.

British Rock and Pop
www.rhythm-n-blues.co.uk

Includes British record releases of the Beatles and Rolling Stones.

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