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Pete Seeger
  FOLK BRITANNIA | EP 1 MUSIC INFORMATION
 
 

The following tracks and live performances all feature in the first episode of Folk Britannia.

Margaret Barry

  • The Half Door
  • She Moved Through the Fair

Rabbity Baxter & Scan Tester

  • Jenny Lind

Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears

  • The Foggy Dew

Martin Carthy

  • Scarborough Fair

Bobby Casey

  • The College Grove/Colonel Frazer

Shirley Collins

  • The Blacksmith

Elizabeth Cotton

  • Freight Train

Alfred Deller

  • The Seeds of Love

Lonnie Donegan

  • Rock Island Line

Bob Dylan

  • With God on Our Side

Michael Gorman

  • Humors of Lissadel & Doctor Gilbert

Adam Gray

  • Tom Hepple's Polka
  • The Tow House Polka

Woody Guthrie

  • This Land is Your Land

Leadbelly

  • Rock Island Line

Bert Lloyd

  • John Barleycorn
  • Maggie May

Ewan MacColl

  • Ballad of John Axon
  • Dirty Old Town
  • I'm Champion at Keeping 'em Rolling
  • The Row Between the Cages
  • Shoals of Herring
  • Singing the Fishing

Chad McDevitt & Nancy Whisky

  • Freight Train

Tom Paxton

  • Rambling Boy

Peggy Seeger

  • Country Blues

Jimmy Shand

  • The Duke of Perth

Simon & Garfunkel

  • Scarborough Fair

Wade Ward

  • Old Joe Clark

The Weavers

  • Goodnight Irene

The Vipers

  • Pick a Bale of Cotton

 Folk Britannia Homepage

 
 
WHICH SIDE
ARE YOU ON?

February 2006
Concert of protest and social justice songs
Robb Johnson

 FOLK BRITANNIA | EP 1
More on the first part of the series

 FOLK CLUB MEMORIES
Tell us about the best gigs you've seen

 FOLK BRITANNIA | ARTIST WEBSITES
Find out more about the musicians

 HAVE YOUR SAY
Share your thoughts on the series

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