Vic Gammon

Folk song scholar, singer and melodeon player

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Born
1946, Balham, London

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.

Further reading: English Folk Dance and Song Society

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