2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
• THE INDIE/FOLK MUSIC GENRE AROSE IN THE
LATE 1990’s, AMERICA FROM
SINGER/SONGWRITERS IN THE INDIE/ROCK
COMMUNITY
• THE GENRE WAS INFLUENCED BY FOLK MUSIC
SCENES OF THE 1950’s , 1960’s AND EARLY 1970’s
• INDIE/FOLK MUSIC COMBINES THE TWO GENRES
OF INDIE ROCK MUSIC AND FOLK MUSIC AS ONE
• SOME EARLY ARTISTS INCLUDED LOU BARLOW,
JEFF BUCKLEY AND ELLIOTT SMITH
• IT IS A GENRE WHICH IS OFTEN RELATED TO
“FREAK FOLK”, “BAROQUE POP” AND “NEW
WEIRD AMERICA”
Lou Barlow
Jeff Buckley
Elliott Smith

3. INSTRUMENTS USED:
THE TYPICAL INSTRUMENTS USED IN THE INDIE/FOLK GENRE
ARE:
ACOUSTIC
GUITAR
DOUBLE
BASE
PIANO
HARMONIUM
DRUMS
VIOLIN
MANDOLIN
BANJO
ELECTRIC GUITAR

4. ARTIST’S:
THE INDIE/FOLK GENRE HAS
GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THE
EARLY 2000’s AND NOW INCLUDES
VARIOUS ARTIST’s SUCH AS:
MUMFORD AND SONS
THE CIVIL WARS
BEN HOWARD
IRON AND WINE
OF MONSTERS AND MEN

5. CONVENTIONS:
THERE ARE MANY CONVENTIONS SEEN IN INDIE/FOLK GENRE MUSIC VIDEOS AS SEEN
THROUGHOUT THE VIDEO OF MUMFORD AND SONS “LITTLE LION MAN”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E

7. BAND SEEN TO BE PLAYING SOME SORT OF GIG WHICH NOT
ONLY PROMOTES THE BAND BUT ALLOWS THE AUDIENCE
TO SPECTATE, AS IF THEY WERE THERE AT THE CONCERT
THEMSELVES
EXAGGERATED INSTRUMENT PLAYING
CUTS CHANGE DEPENDING ON THE PACE OF EACH PART OF
THE SONG
FADE TO BLACK