Australian by birth, Percy Grainger spent the early years of the 20th Century collecting and, in some cases, arranging traditional English Folk songs. Brigg Fair took place on 5 August every year, in Lincolnshire, and was primarily a place for trading horses. Grainger's arrangment was later adapted for orchestra by Frederick Delius.
You can hear a 1907 version by local singer Joseph Taylor (who was then nearly 75 years old) recorded by Grainger.
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