A later generation of performers used the folk club circuit for highly successful mainstream careers, including Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrott, Ian Dury and Barbara Dickson. As in Cornwall there are very strong traditions of folk dance and mumming, the best known being the Hobby horse celebrations at Minehead in Somerset.

East Anglia made a contribution to the British folk rock scene of the 1970s, producing the short-lived, but more recently reformed, bands Midwinter and Stone Angel, based in Great Yarmouth and the more successful Spriguns of Tolgus from Cambridge, who produced four albums. If Emily Blunt’s in it, chances are you’re going to jot it down as a must-watch, as many did right away with The English. T. Buckland, Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), p. List of selected, noteworthy folk musicians and bands (with an emphasis on artists from Britain and the U.Outside Devon and Cornwall Celtic influence on music in the West Country is much less obvious, but folk music still retains many distinctive local characteristics. O'Connor, An Overview of Recent Discoveries in Cornish Music, Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (2007).

The term is used to refer both to English traditional music and music composed or delivered in a traditional style. The attendance at, and numbers of folk clubs began to decrease, probably as new musical and social trends, including punk rock, new wave and electronic music began to dominate. The first notations of Welsh music that survive are from the 14th century, including matins, lauds and vespers for St David's Day.A morris dance is a type of English folk dance, usually accompanied by music, and based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, often using implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs. in the Classic FM Hall of Fame year-after-year, Vaughan Williams’ work for violin and orchestra based on George Meredith’s pastoral poem is perhaps the quintessentially English piece of music.