Folk music of England
Music of the United Kingdom
History
Varieties
Early
popular
music
England
1950s
and 60s
Scotland
1970s
Wales
1980s
Ireland
1990s to
present
Caribbean and Indian
Genres: Classical - Folk - Hip hop - Opera -
Popular - Rock - Jazz
By year: 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003
2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007
Awards Mercury, BRIT Awards, Gramophone
Awards
Charts
UK Singles Chart, UK classical chart,
UK Albums Chart
Festivals Cambridge Folk Festival, Creamfields,
Download Festival, Edinburgh Interna-
tional Festival, Eisteddfodd, Glaston-
bury Festival, Homelands, Isle of Wight
Festival, Royal National Mod, The
Proms, Reading and Leeds Festivals , T
in the Park, V Festival
Media
NME - Melody Maker - Mojo - Q - The
Wire - The Gramophone
National
anthem
"God Save the Queen"
Regions and territories
Birmingham - Cornwall - Manchester -
Northumbria - Somerset - Anguilla - Ber-
muda - Cayman Islands - Gibraltar - Mont-
serrat - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands
Folk music of England is a form of popular
music, often contrasted with courtly, classical
and later commercial music, for which we
have evidence from the later medieval peri-
od. It has been preserved and transmitted or-
ally, through print and later through record-
ings. The term is used to refer to English tra-
ditional music and music composed, or de-
livered, in a traditional style. English folk mu-
sic has produced or contributed to several
important musical
forms,
including sea
shanties, jigs, hornpipes and forms of dance
music, such as those used for Morris dan-
cing. It can be seen as having distinct region-
al and local variations in content form and
style, particularly in areas more removed
from the cultural and political centres of the
English state, as in Northumbria, or the West
Country. Cultural interchange and processes
of migration mean that English folk music, al-
though in many ways distinctive, has particu-
larly interacted with the music of Scotland,
Ireland and Wales. Because of the close cul-
tural connections between England and the