Folk music boost
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) is to become a national development agency for folk music. This has been made possible because the Society has become an Arts Council England Regularly Funded Organisation, and is due to receive £400,000 over two years. Katy Spicer, EFDSS Chief Executive, explained that the new agency will set up a number of initiatives that will benefit the folk sector, including a “definitive online resource for both our members and the general public… that will make even more of our library and archive collections available”. EFDSS was founded in 1932 following the amalgamation of the Folk Song Society (founded in 1898) and The English Folk Dance Society (founded in 1911), and is based at Cecil Sharp House in Camden. It has been a centre for the study, practice and dissemination of traditional English song, dance and music, as well as housing the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
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