Essex Groups

Folk groups in Essex can be found ,click this link of music and musicians, covering weddings, parties, corporate functions and concert clubs.

To see Folk Groups in Essex ,go to our selector page.

 

  
  
  

CLICK HERE 

...Go Bands...

& find Essex Folk Groups  

 

Then select "Folk", "Ceilidh / Barndance Bands", "Essex" from the drop down boxes.

 

 

Essex musicians

 Go to our Music Group Selector Page to find and hear music groups in your area

 

 

The names of Folk Group

The folk group, in its various forms, has a history that goes back to the wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages. Much inventiveness and history has gone into the naming of bands, some traditional, some definitely not.. Here are some band names:-

"  Beggars Belief ; Benachally Ceilidh Band ; BOGRAT The Ceilidh Band Lincs ; Bracken Rigg. ; Captain swing ; Ceilidh Minogue ; Clutching At Straws ; Craigenroan Ceilidh Band ; Crazy K Barn Dance ; Crewneck Ceilidh Band ; Darloch Ceilidh Band ; Def Sheppard ; Devils Fire-Barn Dance Band ; Dragon' Breath ; Draught Guinness Band ; "

Folk Song's Fascinating Words

Folk music is a reflection of the history of music through the ages, to modern day. Many of the great classical composers have drawn on folk tunes for inspiration for their symphonies and other great works. Similarly, the lyrics of folk songs provide a history of love, hate, politics and social change from the earliest days to the present. Hear is just one example:-

"Oil of Barley - - There's a lusty liquor which - Good fellows use to take-a, - It is distill'd with nard most rich, - And water of the lake-a; - Of hop a little quantity, - And barm to it they bring too; - Being barrell'd up, they call't a cup - Of dainty good old stingo. - 2. 'Twill make a man indentures make - 'Twill make a fool seem wise, - 'Twill make a Puritan sociate, - And leave to be precise; - 'Twill make him dance about a cross, - And eke to run the ring too, - Or anything he once thought gross, - Such virtue hath old stingo. - - 3. 'Twill make a constable over see - Sometimes to serve a warrant; - 'Twill make a bailiff lose his fee, - Though he be a knave-arrant; - 'Twill make a lawyer, though that he - To ruin oft men brings, too, - Sometimes forget to take his fee - If his head be lin'd with stingo.

CLICK HERE 

 

 

[About Folk Groups] [Ensembles in Essex wedding music repertoire] [About Essex] [About music in Essex] [About Wedding Venues] [About Wedding Ceremonies registrars, ministers and music] [About other kinds of music such as jazz or folk] [Frequently Asked Questions FAQs] [Ensembles1] [Ensembles2] [Ensembles3] [Ensembles4] [Links] [Home Page]

 

  
  

midsummermusic