Folk Music (album)

This article is about the Show of Hands album. For the album by Far East Movement, see Folk Music (Far East Movement album).

Folk Music
Studio album by
Show of Hands
Released1998
RecordedSeptember 1998
Genre
Length36:24
LabelHands on Music
ProducerGerard O’Farrell
Show of Hands chronology
Dark Fields
(1997) 		Folk Music
(1998) 		Covers
(2000)

Folk Music is the seventh studio album by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands. After the successes of their 1996 Royal Albert Hall performance and their subsequent album Dark Fields (1997), the duo decided to record a limited edition album featuring the duo's renditions of traditional folk music. It was recorded in September 1998 as a project to connect the band to their roots.

It was released as a limited edition release in late 1998 on the band's own label Hands on Music. It was only released via postal order and at the band's concerts and was not reviewed by music press. It was out of print for many years before being re-released in 2015 as a free download to those on the duo's mailing list.