Ken Stubbs

Ken Stubbs (1923-2008), Southern English folksong collector.

See http://forest-tracks.co.uk/kenstubbs/

There is a brief biography of Stubbs on the VWML website at https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/KS

The VWML houses digitised copies of Stubbs' field recordings, and these are accessible as the Ken Stubbs Collection.

The recordings are mostly from Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Regular locations for the “folk music parties” that he organised included The Abergavenny Arms, Copthorne; The Cherry Tree, Copthorne; The Plough, Three Bridges; The Oak, Ardingly; The Plough Inn, Cuckfield; The Gun, Horsmonden; The Crown, Edenbridge and “Elsie’s” at The Queen’s Arms, Cowden.