Episode 2378: 25-21 Folk from the UK 101
Generations of singers have sung, played and loved the folk music found in the United Kingdom, and this week's podcast features some examples. Collectors A.L. Lloyd and Ralph Vaughn Williams transcribed and recorded traditional music and made it available to all through the English Folk Dance and Song Society. We'll listen to revivalist groups like The Watersons and the Copper Family, and then examine the electric side of the style with Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. We will conclude with some of the bright lights on today's scene including Eliza Carthy and The Furrow Collective. A taste of old and new from the U.K. … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / If I Had A Hammer (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysBert Jansch / M'Lady Fancy / Rosemary Lane / CastleA.L. Lloyd / Creeping Jane / Bold Sportsmen All / TopicJinky Wells / The Flowers of Edinburgh-Morris Dance Tunes-Bobbing Around-Morris Dance Tunes / Rig a Jig Jig / TopicThe Copper Family / Spencer the Rover/ The Copper Family of Rottingdean / TopicGargone's Athlone Accordion Band / Soldier's Joy & Reel/ Troubles They Are But Few / TopicIan Campbell Folk Group / Johnny Ladd/ This is the Ian Campbell Folk Group / TransatlanticShirley Collins & Davy Graham / Nottamun Town/ Folk Routes / TopicThe Watersons / Country Life / For Pence and Spicy Ale / ShanachieAnne Briggs / She Moves Through the Fair / A Collection / TopicBert Jansch / Sarabanda / Rosemary Lane / CastleThe Young Tradition / The Banks of the Nile/ Galleries / BGOFairport Convention / Genesis Hall / Unhalfbricking / IslandSteeleye Span / Skewball / Ten Man Mop / ShanachieThe Incredible String Band / Way Back in the 1960s / The 500 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion / ElektraEliza Carthy & the Wayward Band / Great Grey Buck / Big Machine / TopicThe Furrow Collective / King Henry / At Our Next Meeting / FurrowPete Seeger / If I Had A Hammer (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways