Exploring English Folk Music 

Our music is so beautiful, its a shame how little English people know it even exists.

English folk music is a major influence on American roots music..which in turn influenced, Elvis, Johnny cash, bank williams, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, buddy holly....who in turn influenced the Beatles, the Mersey sound, cliff Richard, the beach boys, Tom Jones, who in turn.....this is the root of all pop music

These tunes are lovely to listen to and even lovelier to dance to. I would encourage anyone who enjoyed this concert too see if there is an English Country Dance community near them and perhaps give it a try.

you made me think a lot (my wife says I don't) but the emotion this brought to me was for me a help to see another day in the sunshine)

this video is simply out of this world ! amazing musicians and great interventions too... the french listener I am is simply blown away... english brothers be proud of your folk music ! thanks for sharing this beautiful conference i'm watching on repeat

I really really love this. I love folk but the musicality of this is beautiful and very well played. For what’s it worth I’m just an amateur. But absolutely thrilling and beautiful to hear.

What a wonderful tradition

This was a great hour with the best folk music ever

I thought this was so gracefully put together and played. Thank you!

Amazing performance! Congrats!

Such talent. Enjoying the concert. Thanks for posting it. M

Beautiful music and arrangements, your passion and creativity really shines through.

Great performance, this was a pleasure to listen to.

I want to get up and dance.

I like these tunes

Well. I for two am a reformed individual.

AWWWWWW English trad tunes sound so lovely and cute, it's different from Scottish and Irish trad tunes, and surely English trad music has its own identity

At last some super foke music.

Non native speaker here, listening to the intro doing something else, "we have no shitty music here" well, sure... oh, sheeted music.

Having learned at an early age that the English did their best to exterminate everything Irish, Scots and probably Welsh, Manx and Cornish too, it's refreshing and also somewhat surprising to know that England had a folk culture all along.

oh, get going, this is folk...

Very nice. Two problems. First, I would hardly recognise this as English folk music for two reasons - all very studied and lacking in the spirit you would hear at any folk club. Second, an hour of music and not a single song. Song is music too, you know! Possibly our greatest contribution as a nation is song, which, as another commentator has mentioned, spread to the USA and eventually underpinned the pop music of generations. Of course other music from the British Isles and Ireland has been important, but when you look at songs, English song has been the major influence. The collections of Cecil Sharp, Francis Child, Lucy Broadwood, for all their faux academic pretensions, demonstrate the breadth and depth of the song tradition in love, sex, work, play, war, protest, nature, birth, death, religion, the supernatural (just for starters). When I was at primary school, our songs were sung every week along with the radio and/or a teacher, and were an important part of our musical upbringing. Could you not find any singers down that National Youth Folk Ensemble? Oh, my error. It seems you can't, as it says on the NYFE home page the players of any instrument can join, but 'we are not looking for singers'. How odd since this is a subpage of the English Folk Dance AND SONG society home.

I love english music but I don't think these types of formal setting present it well if tgw audicience have had a couple of pints and sing or dance with you it's wasted effort

I didnt know england had folk music…..

I’d love to believe it’s English folk but it’s just Irish trad

Pleasant, and I wish you luck, but the modern instruments are not Folk

😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤❤❤ English folk tunes sound so so cute, and these musicians are so excellent!!!!!