If you use Folk Music in your Teaching ...

The English Folk Dance and Song Society website has a great resource bank with materials which could help you.

Even if you're more into Scottish than English folk music, there's still useful information there.  We particularly liked the Jargon Buster.  There's much more there than just musical terms, as it covers folk traditions, costume details and other intriguing facts.  (For example, if you go busking, then technically you're "cadging" rather than begging, ie, you're getting money in exchange for providing entertainment, and not just because you begged for it ... a useful distinction!)

• Resource bank
• Jargon Buster
• EFDSS Home Page (http://www.efdss.org/)
• Vaughan Williams Memorial Library - a real gem in the folk music world, and well worth a visit if you have a spare couple of hours in London.

Find Folk at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is run by EFDSS - the English Folk Dance and Song Society.  However, please don't dismiss it as purely a source of English traditional song and dance materials.  There's Scottish stuff too, and also valuable historical material.

Karen got very excited when she discovered just how much is there to be found. Do take a look! The catalogue is online, so it's easy enough to put in a few keywords and check out what's there.

http://www.vwml.org/

The Full English (Music, not Breakfast!)

The Full English is a newly launched database for traditional English music. The CB3 music blog tells you about it here:-

http://musicb3.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/the-full-english/

Then visit The Full English, hosted by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.  Enjoy!