Three Traditional Ballads
October 7th 2021 I discovered the English and Scottish and Irish ballads mainly through the music I listened to as a teenager and young man. Folk rock bands like Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span - as well as traditional singers like Martin Carthy - recorded stirring versions of traditional ballads: ‘She Moved Through the Fair’ (an Irish song which I have written about previously: https://www
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