Traditional Song Forum

Deadline: Tuesday 7 December Broadside Day: Saturday 20 February Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 Organised by the Traditional Song Forum and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, the Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in in

Saturday 24 Oct 2026 9:30am-5:00pm Cecil Sharp House, London £40 | £30 concession (tickets include buffet lunch) This one-day conference organised by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (EFDSS), explores the current place of folk arts in England in rela…

Fourteen Fleeting Weeks: Maud Karpeles and Newfoundland Folk Song by Anna Kearney Guigné and Glenn David Colton Published jointly by The Ballad Partners (London) and Memorial University Press (Newfoundland) Thursday 12 November 7-9pm Cecil Sharp House, Lo…

An interesting new book from Michael Bell, one of our regular speakers, available from Amazon.

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New to Irish Traditional Music Archive’s Shop is The Song Collector: The Writings of Tom Munnelly, a new book gathering key writings on the English-language song tradition by ITMA’s first Board Chair, Tom Munnelly.

The Irish language broadcast channel, TG4, broadcasts a range of television programmes about traditional music and singing.

In November last year, The Times Literary Supplement carried an article headed “Who Controls the Past” which highlighted the terrible news that the BBC was planning to restrict access to its written archives house at Caversham near Reading.

Frank Kidson (1855-1926) was a key player in the explosion of interest in traditional song and music in late Victorian and Edwardian England, and his pioneering book Traditional Tunes (1891) was one of the three founding works of what became the first Folk

The Ballad Partners are delighted to announce the publication of Arthur Knevett’s new book, The Folk-Song Society, 1898-1932: A History.

Julia Bishop pointed out this interesting lecture: The North American British Music Studies Association is excited to share our next Online Colloquium event: Oskar Cox Jensen, “Ballad Singing: Music and History.”

By Peter Snape Anne Geddes Gilchrist, OBE, FSA (1863–1954) was one of the major folk song collectors of the ‘first revival’.

The team at Glostrad are appealing for support for the on-going maintenance and development of the project.