Folk music: the times they are a-changin' | Music

The success of Fisherman's Friends proves that, while it is rooted in the past, folk is a genre in a constant state of fluxIt was in the Somerset village of Hambridge in 1903 that a seminal event in the history of English music took place. Sitting in the vicarage garden – we can imagine the dappled sun and birdsong – with the vicar, an old friend, was Cecil Sharp, a music teacher at a north London school. Into the picture walked one John England, who started mowing the lawn and quietly singi...

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