The British Folk Song Society's mission was to preserve the history, traditions and legacy of a dying part of British folk art. Lucy E. Broadwood, a member of Britain's Elite Society, Broadwood was a forward thinking, independent woman who carved her own path as an accomplished performer, accompanist, composer and poet, and as a champion of young musicians such as the budding composer, Percy Aldridge Grainger.
Grainger's innovations in collecting, notating and arranging folk music for a variety of performing venues propelled his international reputation as a unique, eccentric and extraordinarily gifted artist in the early Twentieth Century.
