Cecil Sharp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cecil Sharp

founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1859

Place of Birth: Camberwell, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1924

Profession: teacher, musician, lyricist, musicologist, folk song collector

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was the founding father of the folk-song revival in England.
He gathered thousands of tunes both from rural England and the Southern Appalachians region of the United States, and wrote an influential volume, English Folk Song: Some Conclusions.
He also revived the extinct tradition of English country dance, based on his study of surviving rural folk dances as well as written sources; this form of dance as Sharp revived it has by now been actively maintained by enthusiast participants for over a century.
Sharp promoted Morris dancing, and in 1911 founded the English Folk Dance Society.