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Harry Smith was born in Portland, Oregon, [2] and spent his earliest years in Washington state in the area between Seattle and Bellingham.As a child he lived for a time with his family in Anacortes, Washington, a town on Fidalgo Island, where the Swinomish Indian reservation is located. [3]
Addie Prater Graham (February 5, 1890 - April 1, 1978) was born in 1890 at Gilmore in Wolfe County in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.She was a masterful traditional singer whose life and repertoire reflect both deep tradition and an era of social change in the Appalachian Mountains.
Waulking songs (Scottish Gaelic: Òrain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung in the Gaelic language by women while fulling (waulking) cloth. This practice involved a group of women, who traditionally prepared cloth, rhythmically beating newly woven tweed or tartan cloth against a table or similar surface to lightly felt it and ...
Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also mistook "Funiculì, Funiculà" for a traditional folk song and used it in his 1907 "Neapolitanskaya pesenka" (Neapolitan Song). [ 13 ] Cornettist Herman Bellstedt used it as the basis for a theme and variations titled Napoli ; a transcription for euphonium is also popular among many performers.
Frolic (law), a concept in tort law; George Alexis Weymouth (1936–2016), or Frolic Weymouth, American artist and conservationist; A type of festive occasion in 19th century Norfolk, UK, as depicted in Thorpe Water Frolic, Afternoon by Joseph Stannard
Sandra Kerr (born 14 February 1942, Plaistow, Newham, Essex) is an English folk singer. Kerr sings and plays English concertina, guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp. She was a member of The Critics Group from 1963–1972. With John Faulkner, she wrote the music for the TV series Bagpuss and voiced the character of Madeleine Remnant (the ...
Armstrong was born on 13 January 1941 in Workington, Cumberland.She moved to Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, as a young child.She began singing in a group with her brother singing Elvis Presley and Little Richard numbers, and in 1957 joined the Stort Valley Skiffle Group which a few years later changed its name to the Ceilidh Singers as its repertoire moved towards folk music.
Pieter Breughel the Younger, Wedding Dance in a Barn (c. 1616) Dance program including the barn dance. Traditional dancing (2016) A barn dance is any kind of dance involving traditional or folk music with traditional dancing, occasionally held in a barn, but, these days, much more likely to be in any suitable building.