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• User:Mboursnell
  ...in folk music. I have been in various folk-related bands, and currently I play bass in a ceilidh band and a rock 'n'roll band. ...have recently been given a concertina, which I plan to try to learn how to play.
  281 bytes (54 words) - 08:29, 10 June 2019
• User:PhilPreen
  == How I got into folk music == ...on my newly acquired tin whistle, discovered first Irish and then English folk music through records.
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• User:Les Jones
  ...er Folk Events since 1964. I have sung folk songs alone and with others, I play banjo mandola and guitar. I have danced Cotswold and North West Morris and ...ction of around 45 musicians. The BB has grown at of our Tunes Session. We play acoustically for local events and causes and generally field around 20 musi
  883 bytes (148 words) - 00:41, 6 December 2011
• User:Joe Wass
  I'm a melodeon, accordion and occasional concertina player from Oxford. I play English, French and the odd Irish tune. I am to be found at sessions in and ...format. In my spare time I research and experiment with ideas that go into Folk Tune Finder. By day I'm a software engineer working at a security software
  445 bytes (78 words) - 22:13, 1 April 2009
• User:Victoria Jane Coleman
  ...m currently studying folk and traditional music at Newcastle University. I play the flute and sing.
  130 bytes (20 words) - 11:59, 30 January 2010
• User:Anahata
  ...ebmaster for folkopedia and runs a small web hosting business used by some folk performers and organisations, including Folkopedia. ...the editor of Mardles, an East Anglian folk magazine published by Suffolk Folk, which has now gone on line as a web site: [https://mardles.org mardles.org
  995 bytes (155 words) - 18:30, 9 September 2023
• People
  ==People are Folk:Folk are People== It's rather obvious really. Folk is done by people! The people who do Folk are many and various.
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• Scandinavia
  A wiki with notes on Swedish and Scandinavian folk songs and dance music, with abc, midi, and pdf etc. Karen Myers' site "is for musicians who play Scandinavian folk music: the largely traditional music of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmar
  498 bytes (75 words) - 09:28, 17 May 2021
• User:Dancingfiddle
  ...ns. I play in several bands, including The Elftones and Copious Notes, and play often in ensembles with many other dance musicians.
  626 bytes (99 words) - 08:30, 10 June 2019
• Long Company
  The Long Company Mummers play takes place on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th of January around the Ryburn and C The play is one of the many events put on by the folk development project [[Ryburn 3 Step]] and involves a large number of their
  1 KB (181 words) - 14:28, 9 June 2010
• User:Anne Croucher
  Father's father was little devil doubt in a mumming play in his youth - I think in Youlgreave, Derbyshire - he could still recall hi I used to go to the folk club at the King George Peel street.
  1 KB (254 words) - 03:41, 21 February 2021
• EDS Vol 45 No 1
  ===RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS AND FOLK MUSIC=== Ursula Vaughan Williams writes about R.V.W. and his folk song influences.
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• User:George kirkpatrick
  ...twelf birthday contrary to rules of the team. danced with them at Sidmouth folk festival the same year. moved to leeds at end of 2000 and lived there since
  549 bytes (91 words) - 19:10, 19 July 2008
• Yorkshire
  ...ke the other northern counties, its songs were much collected in the first folk revival, notably by [[Frank Kidson]]. It has continued to be collected for ...over 80 songs (so far) native to or sung for generations in Yorkshire, to play and download for free; entry for each song includes its history, lyrics, an
  2 KB (244 words) - 12:56, 26 June 2008
• Drama
  to bring you information on the spectacle that is the Mummers Play, plus any other form of traditional street drama. ...e by keyword. Photographs of many of these groups can be found in the Folk Play Research website's [http://www.folkplay.info/Gallery/Photographs.htm Photo
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• Hoodening
  ...cholas-at-Wade with Sarre, where the Hoodeners have performed a new [[folk play]] each year for over half a century since. ...other songs, while Whitstable follows the St Nicholas lead in performing a play, although their content is quite different and taken from other areas of th
  3 KB (449 words) - 19:40, 24 January 2023
• Tunes From Other Nations
  ...But as has often been stated, culture recognises no borders. Tunes that we play come from all over the world, and have travelled all over the world. Many E
  671 bytes (97 words) - 15:40, 8 March 2021
• Other Nations
  ...But as has often been stated, culture recognises no borders. Tunes that we play come from all over the world, and have travelled all over the world. Many E
  702 bytes (101 words) - 12:32, 11 December 2021
• Anglo concertina
  ...uet concertina|duet]] concertinas can be so horrendously out of tune as to play very different notes on the pull from the push, and thus fool the unwary in ...is a collection of assorted accidentals that enable the skilled player to play in other keys (thus giving rise to the full name of the instrument, the ang
  4 KB (662 words) - 09:29, 7 June 2008
• Concertina
  ...lly dwindling away into obscurity, as far as the UK was concerned, was the Folk Revival from the '60s onward. Performers looking for a different sound from everything. For folk and morris dance the anglo concertina and its accordion cousin the melodeon
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