Season 5 of the podcast is being prepared, and will start on the 1st October.But before that there will be a live event on Saturday 27th September, at the Traditional Music Day in Stowmarket, Suffolk, doing the first ever episode in front of an audience.We’ll be covering Roud 164: John Barleycorn. Steve Roud will be providing … Read more
Broadside Day 2026 will be on 14th February at the University of Sheffield. Please save the date.
There are several interesting presentations (as well as lots of great music) at this year’s event in Stowmarket on 27th of September. ‘My Fifty Years with Harry Cox’.Christopher Heppa talks about his discovery of traditional music, his visits to Harry’s family and neighbours, written articles and the joys and disappointments of oral research. “They were … Read more
As well as the Roy Palmer Lecture the following talks and interviews during the week may be of interest.
We are excited to say that we have booked the wonderful Portico Library (https://www.theportico.org.uk/) in Manchester for our next Spring Conference 2025, where we will be using the Dome Room. The event will take place on the 18th April 2025 and the topic is “Women and Song”. Please save the date – we expect this … Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS Folk Songs in the archive – Where can we find them, and are they safe? When the Traditional Song Forum was formed in January 1998 the key topic of discussion was how we could make the many different archives of traditional song more available to researchers. In the years since, much has … Read more
Steve Roud and Julia Bishop will be running a second level of their online evening classes called Folk Song in England, for the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of the EFDSS (6 weekly sessions) in October / November. Details can be found at https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-conferences/15355-folk-uncovered-online-course-level-2-folk-song-in-england-with-steve-roud
This year’s Roy Palmer Lecture will be given by the well-known folk performer, Jon Boden. The title of Jon’s talk will be ‘The Folk Revival – a view from the middle’. In it he will reflect on the ups and downs of an extraordinary cultural movement and make the case for optimism with the green … Read more
The video of this year’s Roy Palmer Lecture, given by Dr Margaret Bennet, is now available on YouTube – https://youtu.be/EeSbJ11YOBI. The title of Margaret’s lecture was ‘Seasonal Customs Outside Our Borders’. It was a very lively and enjoyable talk and definitely not one to miss. The lecture took place at the Whitby Folk Week in August … Read more
This year’s Roy Palmer Lecture will be given by the American folklorist, Steve Winick, and is called ‘Lessons Learned from Robin Hood’. His talk will look at the question ‘what do the Robin Hood ballads communicate, and how can we help them keep communicating to today’s audiences?’ The lecture will be given at the Whitby … Read more