* 1947 – Maddy Prior, English singer ( Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters, and The Carnival Band )

A few of those include bagadoù ( Breton pipe bands ), Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Horslips.

* Came ye o ' er frae France – folk-rock version by Steeleye Span.

Fairport Convention released Liege and Lief in 1969, turning away from American-influenced folk rock toward a sound based on traditional British music and founding the sub-genre of electric folk, to be followed by bands like Steeleye Span and Fotheringay.

Another well-known song, recorded by Nina Simone, Judy Collins and Marc Almond, is " Pirate Jenny ", which was also recorded by Steeleye Span under the alternative title " The Black Freighter ".

They first refused to record another album ( offering up the four-track EP Poguetry in Motion instead ); O ' Riordan married Costello and left the band, to be replaced by bassist Darryl Hunt, formerly of Plummet Airlines and Pride of the Cross ; and they added a multi-instrumentalist in Terry Woods, formerly of Steeleye Span.

* Steeleye Span

* Steeleye Span on Tonight's the Night, Live!

Steeleye Span are an English folk-rock band, formed in 1969 and still active today.

Throughout their long history, Steeleye Span have seen many personnel changes but has maintained a strong continuity of tradition.

The Steeleye Span story began in late 1969 when London-born bass player Ashley Hutchings departed Fairport Convention, the band he had co-founded in 1967.

The name Steeleye Span comes from a character in the traditional song Horkstow Grange ( which they did not actually record until they released an album by that name in 1998 ).

The song gives an account of a fight between John " Steeleye " Span and John Bowlin, neither of whom are proven to have been real people.

When the band discussed names, they decided to decide among the three suggestions " Middlemarch Wait ", " Iyubidin's Wait ", and " Steeleye Span ".

Although there were only five members in the band, six ballots appeared and " Steeleye Span " won out.

In 2002, Steeleye Span reformed with a " classic " lineup, bringing an end to the uncertainty of the previous couple of years.

Armed with the results, Knight persuaded Prior and Genocky to rejoin, coaxed Johnson out of a health-induced retirement, and along with Kemp and Knight, they released Present -- The Very Best of Steeleye Span ( 2002 ), a 2-disc set of new recordings of the songs.

In 2005 Steeleye Span were awarded the Good Tradition Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, while the 2005 book, Electric Folk by Britta Sweers devotes much space to the band.

For the Spring 2011 tour, the line-up consisted of Prior ( vocals ), Rick Kemp ( bass, vocals ), Peter Knight ( violin, piano, vocals ), Pete Zorn ( guitar ), Julian Littman ( guitar ) and Liam Genockey ( drums and percussion ), and draws on past and current Steeleye Span repertoire.

Status Quo's single is credited to " Status Quo with Maddy Prior from Steeleye Span " and reached number 47 in the charts.

Ray Fisher's rare 1972 album Bonny Birdy includes one track with the High Level Ranters, one with Steeleye Span, and one with Martin Carthy.

It appears, however, on the compilation album Original Masters, and is also packaged as part of A Parcel of Steeleye Span.

It was later released on the ' Steeleye Span: A rare collection ' oddities compilation.

* Present -- The Very Best of Steeleye Span </ cite > ( 2002 )

The inclusion of a rock ' n ' roll standard baffled many listeners who had come to expect Steeleye Span's interpretations of traditional fare ; what is generally not known, however, is that the track does represent an aspect of Steeleye Span's live show at that time ( 1974 ).

* Montrose ( song ), traditional song recorded by ( among others ) Steeleye Span on Live at Last ( Steeleye Span album )

Several critics have suggested that it is impossible to imagine that electric accompaniment for traditional song, as successfully purveyed by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, could have developed quite as it did without the pioneering Anthems In Eden.

In the electric folk movement of the 1970s industrial folk music was less prominent than traditional ballads, but largely accepted as part of folk music, with songs like ' Blackleg Miner ' being recorded beside medieval ballads by leading bands of the genre like Steeleye Span.

Much more concerned with traditional music from the region were the group that splintered from them in 1973 Jack the Lad, and another group from which they gained some members Hedgehog Pie, who, for a time, provided a regional answer to the electric folk of bands like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.

In 1980, Steeleye Span ’ s Sails of Silver took a decisive move away from traditional songs.

Ian Anderson had produced Steeleye Span ’ s album Now We Are Six in 1974 and first demonstrated a clear interest in more traditional sound on Minstrel in the Gallery ( 1975 ), but it was in 1977 with the release of Songs from the Wood ( 1977 ) that Anderson took the band into electric folk territory.

Inspired by these developments, UK acts such as Donovan, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span took a similar approach, combining pop-rock arrangements with songs, stylings and instruments drawn from traditional English and Celtic folk music, creating a hybrid style that applied the Byrds ' folk-rock approach to the vast repertoire of English folk songs ; like so many other English acts, all these performers were also heavily influenced by Dylan.

It was hailed as a finely crafted set of traditional songs given clever arrangements, and the track " Thomas the Rhymer ", which was released as a single, was seen by many as the quintessential Steeleye track.

While they would never regain the commercial success of All Around My Hat, Steeleye remained popular among electric folk fans, and generally respected within the music industry.

Shortly afterwards, Fairport bassist, Ashley Hutchings, formed Steeleye Span with traditionalist folk musicians who wished to incorporate overt rock elements into their music and this, in turn, spawned a number of other variants, including the overtly English folk rock of The Albion Band ( also featuring Hutchings ) and the more prolific current of Celtic rock.

Electric folk was at its most significant and popular during the late 1960s and 1970s, when, in addition to Fairport and Pentangle, it was also taken up by groups such as Steeleye Span and The Albion Band.

Steeleye Span was founded by Fairport Convention bass player, Ashley Hutchings, and was made up of traditionalist folk musicians who wished to incorporate electrical amplification, and later overt rock elements, into their music.

He has sung with The Watersons since 1972, was twice a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span, was a member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick, that recorded the Battle of the Field album, and was part of the innovative Brass Monkey ensemble, which mixed a range of brass instruments with Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick's accordion, melodeon and concertina.

The region is home to numerous folk clubs and hosts many folk festivals, including Steeleye Span ’ s Spanfest at Kentwell Hall, Suffolk and the Cambridge Folk Festival, generally seen as the most prestigious in the calendar.

By this time, folk music had itself moved towards rock and the use of electrified instruments, so Cruel Sister invited comparison with such works as Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief and Steeleye Span's Hark!

British electric folk groups such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span drew heavily on the Child Ballads in their repertoires, and many other recording artists have recorded individual ballads.

Similarly, Swarbrick ’ s former playing partner, Martin Carthy, joined Steeleye Span in 1971 to howls of protest in the folk music world.

For a time electric folk threatened to break through to the mainstream, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s when Steeleye Span managed to get one single in the top 20 in 1972 and another in the top 5 in 1975 for " All Around My Hat " and the album of the same name was their most successful, reaching 5 in the UK album charts in the same year.

Tim Hart ( 9 January 1948-24 December 2009 ) was an English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of electric folk band, Steeleye Span.

The Norwegian folk rock group Folque performed this song on their debut album, and used a tune very similar to Steeleye Span's version.