Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk), is a fusion of folk music and punk rock. It was pioneered by the London-based Irish band The Pogues in the 1980s. Folk punk achieved some mainstream success in the 1980s, and in recent years, one of its subgenres, Celtic punk, has experienced some commercial success.
Unlike Celtic rock and electric folk, folk punk tends to include relatively little traditional music in its repertoire. Most folk p...
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Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk), is a fusion of folk music and punk rock. It was pioneered by the London-based Irish band The Pogues in the 1980s. Folk punk achieved some mainstream success in the 1980s, and in recent years, one of its subgenres, Celtic punk, has experienced some commercial success.
Unlike Celtic rock and electric folk, folk punk tends to include relatively little traditional music in its repertoire. Most folk punk musicians perform their own compositions, often in the form of punk rock, but using additional folk instruments, such as: mandolins, accordions, banjos or violins. Nevertheless, some folk punk bands have adopted traditional forms of folk music, including sea shanties and eastern European gypsy music.
Folk punk was pioneered by the London-based Irish band The Pogues, formed in 1982, whose mixture of original songs and covers of established folk singers, all performed with a punk sensibility, led to three top ten albums in the UK, and a...
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