[Harp-L] British folk music-John Kerkhoven

["geoff atkins" <geoffatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Subject: [Harp-L] harmonica in British folk music?
>There's an evening of British folk music being planned and it'd be fun to
>participate. I could probably get away with something by John Mayall, but
>I'm wondering about something more definitively in the british folk vein.
>Any suggestions?  Thanks,   John
  
If we're talking Folk Music as opposed to Blues, JM's "Room to move" would
go down like a lead balloon with a Brit Folk fan!  (:D)
The British Isles abounds with varieties from rural traditional to urban
protest. Here's a few English suggestions, but there are wonderful Scottish,
Welsh and Irish too:

    Sea Shanties: 
Grimsby Town, ( AKA Three score and Ten) 
Shoals of Herring, 
Leaving of Liverpool
Johnny Todd
    Rural Folk:
All around my hat
Roger the rhymer
Whistling Rover
Lancashire Lads
    Urban:
Dirty Old Town
Liverpool Town
Maggie May (NOT the Rob Stewart "Maggie", 
but the Lime St. streetwalker lady)
Wild Rover.
    Protest:
The Levellers are a good source, try:
A Weapon called the Word (CD).

You might like to listen to Van Morrison (very late songs), Lindisfarne,
Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Eddy and Finbar Fury, the Dubliners,
Jasper Carrot, the Pogues, Horslips, Pentangle, and of course Jethro Tull.

And you'll probably not need to bend a note all night, ...and overblows will
be interpreted as mistakes.

I hope this helps, Enjoy and have fun
Geoff Atkins