Folk Session Etiquette Explained
The unwritten rules of the English pub session, from who starts a tune to why a lone singer is best left unaccompanied.
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Folk Music
Sessions, ceilidhs, ballads and instruments: how English folk music works and how to join in. Every guide lists the sources it was checked against; the festival archive keeps the pages first published on this domain.
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What Is a Ceilidh?
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Learning the Melodeon
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What Are Child Ballads?
A Harvard scholar's numbered list of 305 old story-songs became the reference point for ballad singers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Great UK Folk Festivals
From a Devon seaside week to a January takeover of Glasgow, the UK's oldest folk gatherings each keep their own place and season.
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From the festival archive
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Klondike Folk Arts Song Competition
The competition for new songs in the folk style that ran at the May weekend.
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May Folk Weekend 2013
The four-day May bank holiday weekend of 2013 at Botton Village in Danby Dale: the guests, the venues and the village.
Festival archive Archive page
Special Events and the Yorkshire Wassail
Monthly acoustic afternoons in Saltburn and the Christmas ‘Yorkshire Wassail’ shows of carols, songs and stories.
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