The Folk Orc

Name: The Folk Orc
Address: Dorset, BH235QL, GB
Telephone: 07540 500 498

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The Folk Orc brings people together to play folk songs and tunes from Britain and Ireland — with raucous energy and without worrying about perfection.

Every tune has a story, and we love exploring the folklore, history, and traditions behind the music. The Folk Orc provides folk music workshops, sessions and tuition for people of all ages and abilities.

20/05/2026

90’s tv, philosophy and pre history all together in a post about approaching playing music as a group with a new mindset.

Read the full article here:

https://thefolkorc.substack.com/p/1111-5-the-first-commandment-of-playing

06/05/2026

This week the Substack is looking at My Lodgings on the Cold, Cold Ground. A tune that travelled from stage to barracks.

Read it here:

https://thefolkorc.substack.com/p/from-stage-to-street-to-barracks

06/05/2026

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15/04/2026

On this weeks Substack we look at the story of the most successful pirate you’ve never heard of: John Ward, and how a song took him from traitor to hero.

Read the full essay at:

https://thefolkorc.substack.com/p/ward-the-most-successful-pirate-youve

10/04/2026

Join a small community of music lovers exploring the craft and meaning behind the songs we've forgotten.

New posts every week on song history, tradition, our relationship with music and more...

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08/04/2026

Where do the twelve notes come from?

There are sensible answers to that question.

This is not one of them.

A short story about Ug, a beach, and the shape of music.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thefolkorc/p/ug-and-the-twelve-turtles?r=5h8qax&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

06/04/2026

If you love music history, essays, and the stories behind traditional songs, Subscribe to The Folk Orc Substack. New posts every week!

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03/04/2026

A Finger Exercise for Fingerstyle Guitar.

Finger exercises are important, this one gets your hands ready for a whole host of folk tunes that will be coming up on The Folk Orc Substack.

Become a paying subscriber to The Folk Orc Substack for a full explanation and Tab for the exercise.

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01/04/2026

Have we lost our way with music?

We live in a world where music is everywhere — in shops, on the radio, at festivals — and yet most of us rarely make it ourselves.

What if music isn’t just entertainment, but something as fundamental as language? Something we were always meant to do, not just listen to?

This week’s essay explores what might have been lost as music shifted from a shared human behaviour to something we consume.

https://thefolkorc.substack.com/p/have-we-lost-our-way-with-music

30/03/2026

Folk songs are strange things.

They travel through centuries, lose their authors, change their shape — and somehow refuse to die.

I’ve started a newsletter exploring these ideas called The Folk Orc.

If you’d like to read the essays and follow along:

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Telephone

07540 500 498

Website

http://www.folkorc.co.uk/

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