The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, or pronounced 'EFF-diss') is an organisation that promotes English folk music and folk dance.
EFDSS was formed in 1932 when two organisations merged: the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.
Karpeles, Maud
Maud Karpeles (12 November 1885 – 1 October 1976) was a British collector of folksongs and dance teacher.
Early life and education
Maud Pauline Karpeles was born at Lancaster Gate in Bayswater, London, in 1885. She was the third of five childr ...
and Frogley, Alain (2007–2011)
'English Folk Dance and Song Society'
In: ''Grove Music Online
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...
'', Oxford Music Online
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. Retrieved 24 October 2011. . The EFDSS, a member-based organisation, was incorporated in 1935 and became a
registered charity
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).
The legal definition of a ch ...
in 1963.
History
The Folk-Song Society, founded in London in 1898, focused on collecting and publishing folk songs, primarily of Britain and Ireland although there was no formal limitation. Participants included:
Lucy Broadwood
Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (9 August 1858 – 22 August 1929) was an English folksong collector and researcher, and great-granddaughter of John Broadwood, founder of the piano manufacturers Broadwood and Sons. As one of the founder members of the Fo ...
,
Kate Lee,
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of t ...
,
Percy Grainger
Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...
,
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...
,
George Butterworth
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll ''The Banks of Green Willow'' and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from '' A Shropshire Lad''.
Early ...
,
George Gardiner, Henry Hammond,
Anne Gilchrist,
Mary Augusta Wakefield
Mary Augusta Wakefield (19 August 1853 – 16 September 1910) was a British composer, contralto, festival organiser, and writer.
Biography Early life
Wakefield was born in Kendal, where her paternal ancestors had been members of the Quaker ...
, and
Ella Leather
Ella Mary Leather (26 March 1874 – 7 June 1928) was a British collector of the local folklore and songs of Herefordshire. Her seminal work, ''Folklore of Herefordshire,'' published in 1912, has been recognized as an authoritative "model of sc ...
.
The English Folk Dance Society was founded in 1911 by
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of t ...
.
Maud Karpeles
Maud Karpeles (12 November 1885 – 1 October 1976) was a British collector of folksongs and dance teacher.
Early life and education
Maud Pauline Karpeles was born at Lancaster Gate in Bayswater, London, in 1885. She was the third of five child ...
was a leading participant. Its purpose was to preserve and promote
English folk dances in their traditional forms, including
Morris
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Places
Australia
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Canada
* Morris Township, Ontario, now part of the municipality of Morris-Turnberry
* Rural Municipality of Morris, Manitoba
** Morris, Manitob ...
and
sword dances
Sword dances are recorded throughout world history. There are various traditions of Solo dance, solo and mock-battle (Pyrrhic dance, Pyrrhic) sword dances from Africa, Asia and Europe.
General types of sword dance include:
*solo dancers arou ...
, traditional
social dances
Social dances are dances that have a social functions and context. Social dances are intended for participation rather than Concert dance, performance. They are often danced merely to socialise and for entertainment, though they may have Ceremo ...
, and interpretations of the dances published by
John Playford
John Playford (1623–1686/7) was a London bookseller, publisher, minor composer, and member of the Stationers' Company, who published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments, and psalters with tunes for singing in churche ...
. The first secretary of the society was Lady Mary Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis; Trefusis Hall in the EFDSS HQ, Cecil Sharp House, is named after her.
One of the greatest contributions that the EFDSS made to the folk movement, both dance and song, was the
folk festival
A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods.
Handicraf ...
, starting with the
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...
Festival in the 1940s and continuing with festivals in
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Clif ...
,
Sidmouth
Sidmouth () is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, southeast of Exeter. With a population of 12,569 in 2011, it is a tourist resort and a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A large part of the town has ...
,
Holmfirth
Holmfirth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, on the A635 and A6024 in the Holme Valley, at the confluence of the River Holme and Ribble, south of Huddersfield and west of Barnsley. It mostly consist ...
,
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town
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and elsewhere.
Publications
Since 1936 the EFDSS has published ''English Dance & Song'' at least four times a year. This has become the longest-established magazine devoted to folk music, dance and song in the country. ''English Dance & Song'' is aimed at stimulating the interest of the membership of the EFDSS, as well as the wider folk music and dance community.
Their regular scholarly publication is ''Folk Music Journal'', published annually in December, which was formerly entitled the ''Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society'' until 1965. The work continues the earlier journals of the two societies: ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', 1899–1931; ''Journal of the English Folk Dance Society 191431''.
Cecil Sharp House
The Society is based at Cecil Sharp House in
Camden, North London. Originally conceived as a purpose-built headquarters for the English Folk Dance Society, and now Grade II-listed, it was designed in the neo-Georgian style by architect Henry Martineau Fletcher, and opened on 7 June 1930.
The building’s most striking feature is Kennedy Hall, a large concert and performance space with a sprung ballroom floor for dancing. The space features acoustic-focused design elements, courtesy of Fletcher’s friend and fellow architect
Hope Bagenal
Philip Hope Edward Bagenal, (11 February 1888 – 20 May 1979) was a British architectural theorist and acoustician who introduced a scientific approach to the acoustic design of buildings.
Education and early career
Bagenal, known by his s ...
.
One wall of the hall originally accommodated a raised musicians gallery, but this was destroyed by bomb-damage in the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. When the damage was repaired, in works concluding in 1954, the decision was made to commission a mural by the British abstract pastoral painter
Ivon Hitchens
Ivon Hitchens (born London, 3 March 1893 – 29 August 1979) was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s. He became part of the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in 1940 du ...
. When unveiled, it was the largest single-wall mural in the United Kingdom.
In addition to Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House contains several smaller performance and rehearsal spaces; a café and bar; and the
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and Archive. Cecil Sharp House is an active and popular venue for concerts, as well as conferences and other private functions. In 2015, the building was voted as one of London’s 20 best music venues by readers of
Time Out
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* Timeout (computing), an enginee ...
magazine.
Recent developments
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In 1998, with the folk movement strongly supported by a number of other organisations and the seeds planted by EFDSS thriving, the EFDSS altered its strategy to focus on education and archiving, with its primary goal the development of the
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House. It is a multi-media library comprising books, periodical ...
as the country's national archive and resource centre for folk music, dance and song.
In 2009, the society became a regularly funded organisation (now called a National Portfolio Organisation) of
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...
.
In 2011 the society entered into a joint commission with
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Shrewsbury Folk Festival is an annual festival of folk and world music and traditional dance held in the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England.
It takes place over four days on and around the UK Late Summer bank holiday weekend (usually the ...
to create the
Cecil Sharp Project
The Cecil Sharp Project was a multi-artist, residential commission to create new material based on the life and collections of the founding father of the English Folk Revival Cecil Sharp.
The residential took place in March 2011, immediately fol ...
, a multi-artist residential commission to create new works based on the life and collecting of
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of t ...
. The project took place in March 2011, the artists involved being:
Steve Knightley
Steve Knightley (born 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and acoustic musician. Since 1992 he has been one half of folk/roots duo Show of Hands along with Phil Beer. Knightley was named "Songwriter of the Nineties" by BBC Radio 6 Music in ...
,
Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional English folk and his own original compositions which combine English and French traditions w ...
,
Leonard Podolak
The Duhks are a Canadian folk fusion band, formed in 2002 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Featuring banjo, fiddle, guitar, percussion, and vocals, The Duhks blend folk music together with various Canadian and American traditional styles, includin ...
,
Jim Moray
Jim Moray (born 1981) is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
Recording artist
While studying classical composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Moray released the home-recorded ''I Am Jim Moray'' EP. During ...
,
Jackie Oates
Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player.
Life
Oates was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983 but grew up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18, she moved to Devon to study English literature at Exeter University and was based in ...
,
Caroline Herring
Caroline Herring (born 1969 in Canton, Mississippi) is an American folk and country singer, songwriter and musician. She started singing professionally when she was a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the Unive ...
,
Kathryn Roberts
Kathryn Roberts is an English folk singer, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
Early career
Roberts' first released recordings were on the album ''Intuition'', a collection of songs by various South Yorkshire folk artists which also included her ...
and Patsy Reid.
In 2013, EFDSS launched
The Full English, an ongoing archive project supported by the
Heritage Lottery Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.
History
The fund's predecessor bodies were ...
,
The Folklore Society
The Folklore Society (FLS) is a national association in the United Kingdom for the study of folklore.
It was founded in London in 1878 to study traditional vernacular culture, including traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts an ...
, the National Folk Music Fund and the English Miscellany Folk Dance Group. This free and searchable resource of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes.
As well as folk music, the EFDSS is home to a number of performance artists, providing a regular performance platform for acts including the
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
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, the
Massive Violins
The Massive Violins are a musical ensemble of singing cellists. They play music from a variety of musical genres, all using the cello and voice.
History
Founded in 2010, the Massive Violins have performed concerts in venues across the UK and ...
and the
Swingle Singers
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The Swingles are a v ...
.
In September 2021, EFDSS opened consultation to consider changing its name, as it was felt by some that it did not represent the aims and outlook of the society. A proposed name was 'Folk Arts England', a name formerly used between 2005 and 2014 by the Association of Festival Organisers. Of 65 members surveyed in November 2021, 74% approved this name, against other proposals such as 'Folk Arts Society'. As of , consultation continues.
EFDSS Gold Badge Awards
The EFDSS Gold Badge Award, created in 1922, is made to those deemed to have made exceptional contributions to folk music, dance, or the wider folk arts and folk community. Many past recipients are prominent figures not only within the folk community, but of wider British culture and society.
* 1922
Lady Mary Trefusis
Lady Mary Trefusis, née Lygon (26 February 1869–12 September 1927) was an English hymnwriter and courtier. She was also known as Lady Mary Forbes-Trefusis. She was a daughter of the 6th Earl Beauchamp and the wife of Lt.-Col. Henry He ...
; Griselda Hervey
* 1923
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of t ...
;
William Kimber
William "Merry" Kimber (8 September 1872 – 26 December 1961), was an English Anglo concertina player and Morris dancer who played a key role in the twentieth century revival of Morris Dancing, a form of traditional English folk dancing. He was ...
* 1928
Maud Karpeles
Maud Karpeles (12 November 1885 – 1 October 1976) was a British collector of folksongs and dance teacher.
Early life and education
Maud Pauline Karpeles was born at Lancaster Gate in Bayswater, London, in 1885. She was the third of five child ...
; William Wells
* 1929
Helen Storrow
Helen Osborne Storrow (September 22, 1864 – November 12, 1944) was a prominent American philanthropist, early Girl Scout leader, and chair of the World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) for eight years ...
* 1930 Winifred Shuldham-Shaw
* 1934 W H Bonham Carter
* 1938
Anne Gilchrist; Miss E F Lawrence
* 1940 Miss C Holbrow
* 1943
Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams
* 1945 Miss H Cornock Keen
* 1946
Lady Ampthill;
Frank Howes
Frank Stewart Howes (2 April 1891 – 28 September 1974) was an English music critic. From 1943 to 1960 he was chief music critic of ''The Times''. From his student days Howes gravitated towards criticism as his musical specialism, guided by the a ...
* 1948
Frederick Keel
James Frederick Keel (8 May 18719 August 1954) was an English composer of art songs, baritone singer and academic. Keel was a successful recitalist and a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He combined scholarly and artistic inter ...
; R J Tabor; Rev E A White
* 1950 Richard Callender
* 1954
Violet Alford
Violet Alford (18 March 1881 – 16 February 1972) was an internationally recognised authority on folk dancing and its related music and folk customs. She believed that a common prehistoric root explained the similarities found across much of Euro ...
; Elsie Avril; Marjory Sinclair
* 1956 P J Terry
* 1957 Janet McCrindell
* 1960 Kenneth Constable; Irene Fisher; Marjorie Heffer; Dr Robert Kenworthy Schofield; George Osborne
* 1961 Kathleen Adkins; Miss L Chapin; Lily Conant; May Gadd; Margaret Grant; Sybil Lightfoot; Grace Meikle; Philip Merrill; Marjorie Penn; Evelyn Wells; Elsie Whiteman
* 1962 Alec Hunter
* 1963 Everal de Jersey
* 1964
Lady Mary Trevelyan; Dorothy Bessant
* 1965
Douglas Kennedy & Helen Kennedy
* 1969
Harry Cox
Harry Fred Cox (27 March 1885 – 6 May 1971), was a Norfolk farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style.
His music inspired ...
; Arthur Marshall; Edward Nicol
* 1970 Dr W Fisher-Cassie;
Fred Hamer
* 1971 Nan Fleming-Williams; Patrick Shuldham-Shaw
* 1973 Mollie Du Cane; Dr Leonard C Luckwill
* 1974 William Ganiford
* 1975
A L Lloyd
* 1976 Kenneth Clark; Johnson Ellwood
* 1977
Stan Hugill
Stanley James Hugill () (19 November 1906 – 13 May 1992) was a British folk music performer, artist and sea music historian, known as the "Last Working Shantyman" and described as the "20th century guardian of the tradition".
Biography
He wa ...
; Rev Kenneth Loveless
* 1978 Sybil Clark; Bob Copper (
Copper Family
The Copper Family are a family of singers of traditional, unaccompanied English folk song. Originally from Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, England, the nucleus of the family now live in the neighbouring village of Peacehaven. The family first ...
); Kathleen Mitchell
* 1979 Bill Rutter
* 1980 Dr Russell Wortley
* 1981
Dr Lionel Bacon;
Bob Cann
* 1982 Sam Sherry;
The Watersons
The Watersons were an English folk group from Hull, Yorkshire. They performed mainly traditional songs with little or no accompaniment. Their distinctive sound came from their closely woven harmonies. They have been called the "most famous fam ...
(
Lal
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,
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*Norma (constellation)
* 555 Norma, a minor asteroid
*Cygnus Arm or Norma Arm, a spiral arm in the Milky Way galaxy
Geography
*Norma, Lazi ...
and
Mike Waterson
Michael Waterson (17 January 1941 – 22 June 2011) was an English writer, songwriter and folk singer.
Biography
Waterson was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. After being orphaned at an early age, he was brought up there, wit ...
, John Harrison and
Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as ...
)
* 1983 Nibs Matthews;
Walter Pardon
Walter Pardon (4 March 1914 – 9 June 1996) was an English carpenter, folk singer and recording artist from Knapton, Norfolk, England. He learned songs and tunes from older members of his family and remembered and performed them at a time whe ...
;
The Spinners (Tony Davis, Mick Groves, Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones)
* 1984 Philip Bloy; Leslie Hyner
* 1986
Hugh Rippon
* 1987
Reg Hall
Reg Hall (20 March 1932 – 6 August 2013) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for East Perth in Western Australian Football League (WAFL)
While playing football for ...
;
Ewan MacCoIl;
Peggy Seeger
Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American Folk music, folk singer. She has lived in Britain for more than 60 years, and was married to the singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl until his death in 1989.
First American period
Seeg ...
; Michael Yates
* 1988 Joe Brown;
Ursula Vaughan Williams
Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams (née Lock, formerly Wood; 15 March 1911 – 23 October 2007) was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Biography
Born in Valletta, Malta, th ...
* 1989 Peter Dashwood; Jack Hamilton
* 1990 Tom Cook;
Pat Tracey
* 1995 Ivor Allsop; Liza Austin; Brenda Godrich; Cyril Jones;
Fred Jordan; Harry Pitts; Rex Laycock
* 1996 May Beeforth; Elsie Cloughton; Tony Foxworthy; Francis Shergold
* 1997 Barbara Kinsman; Ivy Romney; Cyril Swales
* 1998 Jill Copper, John Copper & Jon Dudley (
Copper Family
The Copper Family are a family of singers of traditional, unaccompanied English folk song. Originally from Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, England, the nucleus of the family now live in the neighbouring village of Peacehaven. The family first ...
); Marjorie Fennessy; Dr Ian Russell
* 1999
Roy Judge
Roy Judge (1929–2000) was a British folklorist and historian.
Early life and education
Judge was born in Hastings in 1929, where he attended the local grammar school before being evacuated to St Albans during the Second World War. He went on ...
; Ron Smedley
* 2001
Roy Dommett
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; Dr Denis Smith; Trevor Stone
* 2002 Dr Christopher Cawte;
John Kirkpatrick;
Dave Swarbrick
David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. His style has been copied or developed by almost every British and many world folk violin players who have followed him. He was ...
* 2003 Dave Arthur;
Shirley Collins
Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935) is an English folk singer who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s. She often performed and recorded with her sister Dolly, whose accompaniment on ...
;
Iona Opie
Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and ...
;
Roy Palmer
* 2004 Steve Heap;
Peter Kennedy; Geoff Rye; Malcolm Taylor
* 2005
Alistair Anderson
The High Level Ranters are a Northumbrian traditional musical group founded in 1964, best known for being one of the first bands in the revival of the Northumbrian smallpipes.
Name and history
The name was chosen as a combination of the locat ...
; Tony Engle; Phil Heaton; Aubrey O’Brien;
Doc Rowe
David "Doc" Rowe (born 8 December 1944) is a folklorist, author and film-maker who lives and works in the United Kingdom. A graduate of Hornsey College of Arts, he is a prominent lecturer on and advocate for folk traditions and folk music.
De ...
* 2007
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson.
Life and care ...
; Michael Heaney; Frank Purslow; Pat Wilkinson;
The Yetties
The Yetties (John "Bonny" Sartin, Pete Shutler, and Mac McCulloch) were an English folk music group, who took their name from the Dorset village of Yetminster, their childhood home. In 1975, they released an album entitled '' The Yetties of Yet ...
(Bonny Sartin, Pete Shutler and Mac McCulloch)
* 2008
Ray Fisher; John Heydon;
Lou Killen
Louisa "Lou" Jo Killen (born Louis Killen; 10 January 1934 – 9 August 2013) was an English folk singer from Gateshead, Tyneside, who also played the English concertina.
Killen formed one of Britain's first folk clubs in 1958 in Newcastle upon ...
;
Colin Ross
* 2009 Jack Brown; Beryl Marriott; Roger Nicholls;
Steve Roud
Steve Roud (; born 1949) is the creator of the Roud Folk Song Index and an expert on folklore and superstition. He was formerly Local Studies Librarian for the London Borough of Croydon and Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society.
Life and c ...
; Derek Schofield
* 2010 Jim Coleman; Vic Gammon; John Howson; Katie Howson;
Taffy Thomas
Taffy Thomas, MBE is a storyteller, based in Grasmere in the English Lake District.
Biography
In September 2009, Thomas accepted the honorary position of the UK's first Laureate for Storytelling, which was officially launched on 30 January 201 ...
* 2011
Johnny Handle
The High Level Ranters are a Northumbrian traditional musical group founded in 1964, best known for being one of the first bands in the revival of the Northumbrian smallpipes.
Name and history
The name was chosen as a combination of the locat ...
;
Nic Jones
Nic Jones (born Nicolas Paul Jones; 9 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Regarded as a prominent figure of the British folk revival, he has recorded five solo albums and collaborated with various musicians.
Biography ...
; George Peterson; Les Seaman; Jackie Toaduff;
Eddie Upton
* 2012
Bill Leader Bill Leader (born 26 December 1929) is an English recording engineer and record producer. He is particularly associated with the British folk music revival of the 1960s and 1970s, producing records by Paddy Tunney, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Re ...
;
Graeme Miles
Graeme Miles (1935 – 29 March 2013) was an English folk singer and songwriter based in Middlesbrough. Born in Greenwich, London, he grew up in Teesside and studied at West Hartlepool Art School. He became enamored with folk music and with the T ...
* 2013
Ashley Hutchings
Ashley Stephen Hutchings, MBE, sometimes known in early years by his nickname, "Tyger" Hutchings (born 26 January 1945) is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer. He was a founding member of t ...
; Ricky Forster; David Blick
* 2014
Maddy Prior
Madelaine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the police dr ...
;
Sandra Kerr
Sandra Kerr (born 14 February 1942, Plaistow, Essex) is an English folk singer.
Kerr sings and plays English concertina, guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp. She was a member of The Critics Group from 1963–1972. With John Faulkner, she ...
; David Leverton; Alan Bearman
* 2015
Ian A. Anderson
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Country blues, The Village Thing and "psych folk"
Anderson first performed in h ...
;
John Tams
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; Rollo Woods; Paul Wilson and Marilyn Tucker (Wren Music)
* 2016 Maggie Fletcher; Pete Coe and Sue Coe; Mike Wilson-Jones and Mary Wilson-Jones
* 2017 Johnny Adams; Nicolas Broadbridge; Dave and Maggie Hunt;
The Wilson Family
The Wilson Family is an English folk music group from Billingham, County Durham, North East England. They have been singing and performing a cappella folk songs since 1974. They consist of sister Pat and five brothers: Tom, Chris, Steve, Ken ...
* 2018
Frankie Armstrong
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; John Bacon; Antony Heywood; Vic Legg
* 2019 Carolyn Robson; Chris Coe; John Graham; Mike Norris;
Kate Rusby
Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English English folk music, folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Sometimes called the "Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British folk festivals, an ...
* 2020 Paul and Liz Davenport; Benny Graham;
Mick Peat
See also
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Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House. It is a multi-media library comprising books, periodical ...
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Country Dance and Song Society
The Country Dance and Song Society (abbreviated CDSS) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote participatory dance, music, and song with English and North American roots.
History
CDSS began in 1915 as a series of American chapters of t ...
, the American counterpart to the EFDSS
References
External links
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English Dance and Song Magazine website*
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English folk dance
English folk music
English folklore
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arts organizations established in 1932
1932 establishments in the United Kingdom
Charities based in England
History of the London Borough of Camden
Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden