The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the English Folk Dance Society. The Folk-Song Society, founded in 1898, was ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Folk Music Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of research into all aspects of traditional song, music, dance, and drama. It is the journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England's national ...

Quite a long time in the making the slightly dubiously named 'Full English' (cheesy name for real ale?) archive is now online. Charting the development of English folk music in the 20th Century this ...

Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered ...

For those who lived in medieval times and relied on the harvest to survive, traditional music had a ritualistic role: it was part of the magic to ward off their fear that the world could simply end.

Camden's Cecil Sharp House has been questioning the very notion of what traditional British music means in the multicultural 21st Century. "Hip-hop is the folk dance of today," said Natasha Khamjani, ...

Traditional and acoustic music are more widely accepted these days, but John Jones, lead singer for the Oyster Band, still believes these styles must ”come out as strong as rap and hip hop and house ...