Woody Guthrie, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - John Henry c1948

 John Henry (folklore) - Wikipedia

The Bold Grenadier (One Morning in May) - Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Dir. John Schlesinger

 The Bold Grenadier / The Soldier and the Lady / One Morning in May / To Hear the Nightingale Sing (Roud 140; Laws P14; TYG 34)

Often known as The Grenadier and the Lady, this a popular song in the West Country. H.E.D. Hammond collected five variants in Somerset and Dorset between 1905–7 including one from W. Barlett at Wimborne, and in 1950 Peter Kennedy recorded Walter Haynes singing it in the bar of the Ilchester Arms at Abbotsbury. The song was also popular in other parts of the country and frequently turns up in America. It is a favourite with the Holme Valley Beagles in South Yorkshire where it’s called Where the Watter Rattles and George Dunn sang it in the Midlands under the title The Nightingale Sings.

Merrie England Once Again (1929)

 MERRIE ENGLAND ONCE AGAIN ! - 1,500 dancers recapture "spirit of Old England" - in great Dance Festival in beautiful grounds of Blenheim Palace."

My parents used to Folk Dance.

Fairport Convention - She Moves Through The Fair (1969)

 She Moved Through the Fair - Wikipedia

Star Trekkin' 1987

 Star Trekkin' - Wikipedia

This was a hit single in 1987 but it has its origins in the English Civil War reenactment scene. 

Mary Hopkin "Those Were The Days" on The Ed Sullivan Show, October 27, 1968.

 Those Were the Days (song) - Wikipedia

Băneasă's Green Glade - Andy Irvine 1976 -

 Me and my Bro saw him at the Thekla. 

This ones a gem!

From the Planxty album "Cold Blow and the Rainy Night", Andy wrote this about his early days in Bucharest when he lived in a forest!!!

Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna (Live 1966) [HD FOOTAGE]

 Thought we ought to make Blonde on Blonde.

Kenneth Williams - The Ballad Of The Woggler's Moulie

 

Clarence Ashley - Coo Coo Bird - October 23, 1929

 The Cuckoo (song) - Wikipedia

Clarence Ashley with Doc Watson: The Banks of the Ohio (1961)

 Banks of the Ohio - Wikipedia

Baltimore to Washington - Woody Guthrie 1944

 

John Barleycorn · Martin Carthy · Dave Swarbrick 1967

 A classic. John Barleycorn - Wikipedia

Priddy Folk Festival

 Home - Priddy Folk Festival

Gently Johnny - The Wicker Man HD 1973

 The Wicker Man (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

"I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth."

Lowlands of Holland Martin Carthy 1966

 This, the second album came out in 66. This is one I like. Martin Carthy - Wikipedia

Donovan "Three King Fishers" 1966

 80th birthday today. Donovan - Wikipedia

Radstock Morris

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 Dear friends and gentle hearts,

Radstock Morris invite you to join them for the inaugural dance-out of their inaugural Dancing Season, this Wednesday evening at The Fromeway .

Enjoy some traditional English messing about with bells on alongside a drink at our favourite local hostelry. Maybe learn a dance?

Shepton Mallet Hornpipe / Radstock Jig

Pete Cooper (fiddle) and Richard Bolton (cello) play two traditional West Country hornpipes. Cecil Sharp, who visited the Shepton Mallet Union (workhouse) in December 1907, noted them down from the playing of octogenarian Gypsy fiddler James Higgins (1819-1910). Radstock, nine miles north-east of Shepton Mallet, was at that time a mining town in the heart of the Somerset coalfield. The term ‘jig’ is used in the generic sense of ‘dance tune’.

MARY HOPKIN - "If You Love Me" (promo video, 1976)

 Mary Hopkin - Wikipedia Birthday yesterday.