Beginners’ guides
If you are new the world of folk, the quicklinks below will help you find out more about English folk music, dance, song, custom, costume and traditions.
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Learning Resources
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- Exploring English Folk Music
- Clog Workshop for Beginners
- An Introduction to Maypole Dances
- Black Singers and Folk Ballads
- Beyond the St Marylebone Workhouse: songs of London life gone by
- Folk Songs in the Model Music Curriculum
- Herrings and Hops
- Folk Music Starting Points
- Songs of London Life: Using folk arts in inclusive settings
- Make a Morris Dancer's Hat
- Solo Ceilidh Cardio – folk dance meets hip hop
- Folk in the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Music
- Folk in the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum for Music
- Folk in the Key Stage 1 National Curriculum for Music
- A Selection of Hand Holds for Social Folk Dancing
- Santiana
- Songs of May: using folk arts in inclusive settings
- Folk and Traditional Music to accompany a performance by National Youth Folk Ensemble and Leveret
- Songs from the James Madison Carpenter Folk Collection
- Essex Folk Song Discovery: Coastal Songs
- Essex Folk Song Discovery
- Ceilidh Band Project
- Sea Songs and Shanties for Tall Ships
- An Introduction to English Sea Songs and Shanties
- Twas in the Good Ship Rover
- Donkey Riding
- A Set of Rapper Dancing Tunes for Brass Band - Tekely
- Songs of Rural Life: accessibility and adaptability in SEN settings
- A Set of Rapper Dancing Tunes for Brass Band - Oatlands House
- A Set of Rapper Dancing Tunes for Key Stage 2 Instruments - A Dance for 1811
- A Set of Rapper Dancing Tunes for Key Stage 2 Instruments - Yorkshire Tune
- Tools of the Trade
- Shots Fired
- Blue Scars
- The Miner's Dream
- Collier Lads - choral arrangement
- Pony Driver
- A Collier Lad
- In Our Own Words: exploring coal mining through folk song
- Swords and Stars: Rapper Sword Dance for Primary Schools
- Threshing Machine: a musical interpretation of a heritage resource
- Introduction to playing folk music: working with intermediate and advanced players new to folk music
- A Sailor's Life Key Stage 1
- Black Sailors and Sea Shanties
- Six Folk Arrangements for Youth Ensembles
- Resource Bank A – Z
- A Sailor's Life Key Stage 2
- Vocal Warm Ups
- Buttered Peas/Butter’d Pease
- Storytelling using folk ballads in Secondary Schools
- Three Ravens - A commissioned piece for choir (SATB)
- Here We Come A-Wassailing
- Warm Up: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Bury Singing Day Pack
- Awake! Awake!
- As I Lay On A Sunny Bank
- Two Christmas Carols
- Seeds of Love
- Laudnum Bunches
- Country Gardens
- Bean Setting
- Barbara Ellen
- Banks of Claudy
- BBC Radio 2 Cecil Sharp Project
- Using Folk Arts in Key Stage 1
- I Love English Folk Dance
- Aboot the bush, Willy - Carolyn Robson
- The Mony Faads - Carolyn Robson
- Lavender's Blue - Carolyn Robson
- Trio of North East Songs
- Two Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools
- Working By Ear
- Creating a New Song Cycle from Traditional Songs
- Using Folk Song and Dance in Primary Schools
- Using Folk Music to Enhance Inclusive Learning
- Contemporary Folk Dance Fusion
- Creative Folk Dance for Primary Schools
- Coal Mining with Folk Arts and Poetry
- Wild and Wicked Youth
- What Will We Do if We Have Got No Money
- Up To the Rigs
- Stanley and Dora
- Press Gang
- Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner
- London Wherryman
- London Steamer
- London Lights
- London Bridge is Broken Down
- Lavender
- How Many Miles to London Town?
- Hopping Down In Kent
- Basket and Chairs
- Singing Histories
- Shepherd's Hey
- Speed the Plough
- Curly Headed Ploughboy
- Three Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools
- Abroad for Pleasure
- The Farmer's Boy / To Be A Farmer's Boy
- Pleasant and Delightful
- Young Banker
- Fathom The Bowl / Punch Ladle
- Sweet Nightingale
- Barley Mow
- Folk Chorus Songs Selection
- False Lamkin: teaching notes for Key Stages 2 and 3
- The Wensley Jig
- The Galloping Dash
- An Acre of Land: Key Stages 1 and 2
- The Evercreech Hornpipe
- Jim The Carter Lad
- The Hundred Haymakers
- John Barleycorn
- The Green Grass
- Oats And Beans And Barley
- There’s A Nice Field Of Turnips Over There
- Seven Songs of Harvest
- Two Folk Dance Tune Sets
- Using Folk Song in Secondary Schools
- Folk Music: A resource for creative music-making (Key Stage 3 and 4)
- Sally Walker
- Lubin
- Two Folk Song Warm Ups
- The Trees They're So High
- The Factory Operatives Call On Humanity
- Brother Tradesmen
- Jolly Waggoner
- Time May Steal The Roses
- Three Ravens
- My Own Sweet Native Vale
- Mariners of England
- Lovely Nancy
- Down The Wagon Way
- Winlaton Calling On Song
- The Summer's Morning
- Sea Songs and Shanties Pack
- Cheerful Arn
- A Roving
- Tis Of A Gallant Southerner
- A Long Time Ago Pulling Chanty
- Times Are Hard
- Bold Pirate
- Yeave Ho
- Bristol Folk Songs Pack
- Cambridgeshire Children's Games
- Beginners’ guides
- Learning Resources
- Folk music in schools
