English folk music (1900–49)

Updated on Nov 23, 2023

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Births

Phil Tanner (1862– 1950)

Stan Hugill (1906–1992)

A.L. Lloyd (1908–1982)

Copper Family (born c. 1912–1915)

Phoebe Smith (1913)

Walter Pardon (1914–1996)

Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)

Fred Jordan (1922–2002)

Shirley Collins (1935)

Martin Carthy (1941)

Dave Swarbrick (1941)

Bert Jansch (1943)

Peter Bellamy (1944–1991)

Ralph McTell (1944)

John Renbourn (1944)

Ashley Hutchings (1945)

June Tabor (1947)

Maddy Prior (1947)

Sandy Denny (1947–1978)

Richard Thompson (1949)

1905 Songs of the West (2nd ed) by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)

1907 English Folk Song: Some Conclusions by Cecil Sharp (1859–1924)

1908 Traditional English Songs by Lucy Broadwood (1858–1929)

1913 The Morris Book by Cecil Sharp

1913 Sword Dances of Northern England by Cecil Sharp

1919 English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachian by Cecil Sharp

1922 The Country Dance Book by Cecil Sharp

1923 Folk Songs of the Upper Thames by Alfred Williams

1924 The Dance by Cecil Sharp

The dates of early commercial recordings, and the modern reissue albums on which they can be heard

1908 Scott Skinner (1843–1927) The Music Of Scott Skinner

1908 Joseph Taylor (1832–c. 1908) Unto Brigg Fair

1937 Phil Tanner (1862–1950) The Gower Nightingale

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