The Gold Badge of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is awarded for unique or outstanding contributions to folk music, dance or song, distinguished service to the Society and/or exceptional contributions to the Society’s work.
All about the Gold Badge Award
Here is the list of Gold Badge holders to date:
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1922
Lady Mary Trefusis
Mrs Dudley Hervey
1923
Cecil Sharp
William Kimber
1928
Maude Karpeles
William Wells
1929
Mrs J.J. Storrow
1930
Winifred Shuldham-Shaw
1934
W. H. Bonham Carter
1938
Anne Gilchrist
Miss E.F. Lawrence
1940
Miss C. Holbrow
1943
Dr Ralph Vaughan WIlliams
1945
Miss H. Cornock Keen
1946
Lady Ampthill
Frank Howes
1948
Frederick Keel
R.J. Tabor
Rev. E.A. White
1950
Richard Callender
1954
Elsie Avril
Violet Alfred
Marjorie Sinclair
1956
P.J. Terry
1957
Janet McCrindell
1960
Kenneth Constable
Irene Fisher
Marjorie Heffer
Dr Kenworthy Schofield
George Osborne
1961
Kathleen Adkins
Miss L. Chapin
Lily Conant
May Gadd
Margaret Grant
Sybil Lightfoot
Grace Meikle
Philip Merril
Marjorie Penn
Evelyn Wells
Elsie Whiteman
1962
Alec Hunter
1963
Everal de Jersey
1964
Lady Mary Trevelyan
Dorothy Bessant
1965
Douglas Kennedy
Helen Kennedy
1969
Arthur Marshall
Harry Cox
Edward Nicol
1970
Dr. W. Fisher-Casssie
Fred Hamer
1971
Nan Fleming-Williams
Patrick Shuldham-Shaw
1973
Dr Leonard C Luckwill
1974
William Ganiford
1975
A.L. Lloyd
1976
Johnson Ellwood
Kenneth Clark
1977
Rev. Kenneth Loveless
Stan Hugill
1978
Bob Copper
Sybil Clark
Kathleen Mithchell
1979
Bill Rutter
1980
Dr Russell Wortley
1981
Bob Cann
Dr Lionel Bacon
1982
Sam Sherry
The Watersons (Martin Carthy, Norma, Mike and Lal Waterson)
1983
Nibs Matthews
Walter Pardon
The Spinners (Tony Davis, Mick Groves, Cliff Hall, Hughie Jones)
1984
Leslie Hyner
Philip Bloy
1986
Hugh Rippon
1987
Reg Hall
Michael Yates
Ewan MacColl
Peggy Seeger
1988
Ursula Vaughan Williams
1989
Peter Dashwood
Jack Hamilton
Joe Brown
1990
Pat Tracy
Tom Cook
1995
Brenda Godrich
Cyril Jones
Rex Laycock,
Harry Pitts (posthumous)
Ivor Allsop
Liza Austin
1996
Fred Jordan,
Francis Shergold
Tony Foxworthy
May Beeforth
Elsie Cloughton
1997
Ivy Romney
Cyril Swales
Barbara Kinsman
1998
John Copper
Jill Copper
Jon Dudley
Ian Russell
Marjorie Fennessy
1999
Roy Judge
Ron Smedley
2001
Roy Dommett
Dr Denis Smith
Trevor Stone
2002
Dave Swarbrick
Christopher Cawte
John Kirkpatrick
2003
Dave Arthur
Shirley Collins
Iona Opie
Roy Palmer
2004
Steve Heap
Peter Kennedy
Geoff Rye
Malcolm Taylor
2005
Alistair Anderson
Tony Engle
Phil Heaton
Aubrey O’Brien
Doc Rowe
2007
Eliza Carthy
Michael Heaney
Frank Purslow
Pat Wilkinson
The Yetties (Bonny Sartin, Pete Shutler and Mac McCulloch)
2008
Ray Fisher
John Heydon
Louis Killen
Colin Ross
2009
Beryl Marriott
