Vic Gammon is a south Londoner who became one of the leading historians of English vernacular song. He taught folk and traditional music at Newcastle University and wrote Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song. He also sings and plays concertina and melodeon, and the EFDSS gave him its Gold Badge.
Vic Gammon
Folk song scholar, singer and melodeon player
- Born
- 1946, Balham, London
Further reading: English Folk Dance and Song Society
