“You can't truſt folk ſongs. They always ſneak up on you.”
Granny Weatherwax in Terry Pratchett: Witches Abroad
Featured Musicians and Groups
This list links to discographies of the most important (to me, that is ;-) musicians and groups featured on Mainly Norfolk. You'll find a lot more of them in the comprehensive folk discography and in the record label discographies shown at the top of the navigation column.
- Frankie Armstrong
- Roy Bailey
- Damien Barber, The Demon Barbers
- Les Barker, The Mrs Ackroyd Band
- Jon Boden, John Spiers, Bellowhead
- Maggie Boyle, Grace Notes
- Anne Briggs
- Ian Campbell Folk Group
- Cara, Deitsch, Litha
- Eliza Carthy
- Martin Carthy
- Shirley Collins
- Coope Boyes & Simpson
- The Copper Family
- Sandy Denny
- Fairport Convention
- Dick Gaughan
- Fay Hield
- Ashley Hutchings
- Nic Jones
- Fred Jordan
- Nancy Kerr, James Fagan
- Louis Killen
- John Kirkpatrick
- Lady Maisery
- A.L. Lloyd
- Ewan MacColl
- Magpie Lane
- Brian Peters
- Karine Polwart
- Emily Portman, The Furrow Collective
- John Roberts & Tony Barrand
- Jeannie Robertson
- Tony Rose
- Leon Rosselson
- Martin Simpson
- Danny Spooner
- Steeleye Span
- Dave Swarbrick
- June Tabor
- John Tams, Home Service
- Cyril Tawney
- Joseph Taylor
- Kathryn Tickell
- Steve Tilston
- The Watersons
- Martyn Wyndham-Read
Note:
I inherited the websites for some artists hosted here:
Sandy Denny (merging it with mine) and Trevor Lucas in 1998
from Willem Doornkamp;
The Watersons and Martin Carthy in 2002 from Garry Gillard,
and Ashley Hutchings, Joseph Taylor and the Kipper Family from Tony Rees via
Garry.
Thank you very much for your great work and for asking me to take over!
And thanks to Alistair Banfield too for his never-ending support and
wealth of information.
Norfolk Musicians
As this website is named in remembrance of Peter Bellamy after his first solo album, Mainly Norfolk, I thought I'd just list some Norfolk musicians featured here:
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