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 shoots or revival constantly pushing up through – young singers and musicians who are now the generation below him, and who were born a hundred years after Cecil Sharp heard John England singing ‘The Seeds of Love’.
The talk will, again, be given during the Whitby Folk Week and we are indebted to the organisers for their continued support for the Roy Palmer Lecture.
You can see more about Jon’s talk and about past Roy Palmer Lectures on the website, www.roypalmerlecture.org.