Folklorists

Folklorists of Britain and Ireland on Folk Calendar: 37 of them, with their dates, where they were born and died, and their recordings. Every artist, A to Z

A

Dave Arthur Singer, writer and folklorist; Dave and Toni Arthur

B

© Gonzalo J. Mazzei CC BY-SA 4.0 Margaret Bennett Folklorist, writer and singer
Katharine Briggs 1898 to 1980 Folklorist; An Encyclopedia of Fairies
Lucy Broadwood 1858 to 1929 Founder of the Folk-Song Society; English County Songs

C

John Lorne Campbell 1906 to 1996 Gaelic scholar and field recordist; Canna
Nicholas Carolan Founding director; Irish Traditional Music Archive
© Daderot Public Domain Mark Francis James Child 1825 to 1896 Scholar; the English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Matt Cranitch Fiddler and scholar; Na Filí

D

Kevin Danaher 1913 to 2002 Folklorist; The Year in Ireland
Liz Doherty Fiddler and scholar; Nomos

E

© Cairnryn CC BY-SA 4.0 E. Estyn Evans 1905 to 1989 Geographer; Irish Folk Ways
© Martinevans123 CC BY-SA 4.0 George Ewart Evans 1909 to 1988 Oral historian; Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
Meredydd Evans 1919 to 2015 Singer and scholar of Welsh folk song

F

John Forrest Anthropologist; historian of morris dancing

G

Vic Gammon Folk song scholar, singer and melodeon player
Gavin Greig 1856 to 1914 Collector; the Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection

H

© Own work Public Domain Mark Hamish Henderson 1919 to 2002 Poet and collector; School of Scottish Studies
© Bryn Pinzgauer CC BY 2.0 Fay Hield Traditional singer and ethnomusicologist
© Evan T Jones CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication) Ronald Hutton Historian; The Stations of the Sun

K

© Wicym CC BY-SA 4.0 Phyllis Kinney 1922 to 2026 Singer and scholar of Welsh traditional music

L

Ella Mary Leather 1874 to 1928 Folklore and folk song collector; Herefordshire
© Unknown authorUnknown author Public Domain Mark Alan Lomax 1915 to 2002 Collector; recorded Britain and Ireland in the 1950s
Kenneth Loveless 1911 to 1995 Morris concertina player; Squire of the Morris Ring

M

Allan MacDonald Piper and piping scholar; Glenuig
© Abrach (talk) (Uploads)Public Domain Mark Calum Maclean 1915 to 1960 Gaelic folklore collector; School of Scottish Studies
Tom Munnelly 1944 to 2007 Collector of Irish traditional song

O

© Dcs57 CC BY-SA 4.0 Iona Opie 1923 to 2017 Folklorist; The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
© Dcs57 CC BY-SA 4.0 Peter Opie 1918 to 1982 Folklorist; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

P

Roy Palmer 1932 to 2015 Folk song historian and author

R

© Rob enwiki CC BY-SA 4.0 Steve Roud Folklorist; the Roud Folk Song Index
Doc Rowe Folklorist, film maker and archivist of customs

S

Roy Saer 1936 to 2026 Collector and scholar of Welsh folk song; St Fagans
© Unknown authorUnknown author Public Domain Mark Cecil Sharp 1859 to 1924 Collector of English folk songs and dances
Margaret Fay Shaw 1903 to 2004 Collector of Gaelic song and lore; South Uist
Hugh Shields 1929 to 2008 Song scholar; Folk Music Society of Ireland
Jacqueline Simpson Folklorist; A Dictionary of English Folklore
Keith Summers 1948 to 2004 Field recordist; Suffolk; founder of Musical Traditions