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Society folk stage arts funding coup
IT'S been a long time coming.
But the Arts Council has finally got round to recognising that English Folk Song has sufficient “music” status to get a morsel of its £72million music budget.
More than 100 years since Ralph Vaughan Williams and others drew inspiration from traditional folk songs, the council is providing £400,000 funding for the English Folk Dance and Song Society based at Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park.
“This funding is great news for the society and for folk arts in general,” says Katy Spicer, EFDSS’s chief executive. “We are very much on the crest of a folk revival and this money will allow us to be proactive in how we support English folk arts.”
The funding will be used by the society to build its key role in the sector, creating a programme of artist and audience development, industry networking, training and more ways of involving children and young people.
Since the late 19th century, traditional English folk music has been mined by numerous composers writing for the concert hall.
Over the past two decades or so there has been a huge revival of interest.
Now, younger artists are setting new standards and attracting large audiences and media attention – and can no longer be ignored by the Arts Council.
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