Chamber folk is a style of typically gentle fingerpicked acoustic guitar or harp-led music that initially gained prominence in the UK and the US during the mid-to-late 1960s. It is defined by an elegant and ornate style of arrangement and production, creating a sound that can be alternately described as wistful, fey, pastoral and whimsical, often featuring celestial, crystalline vocals and a variety of instruments as accompaniment. These include, either separately or as part of an ensemble
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Chamber folk is a style of typically gentle fingerpicked acoustic guitar or harp-led music that initially gained prominence in the UK and the US during the mid-to-late 1960s. It is defined by an elegant and ornate style of arrangement and production, creating a sound that can be alternately described as wistful, fey, pastoral and whimsical, often featuring celestial, crystalline vocals and a variety of instruments as accompaniment. These include, either separately or as part of an ensemble, piano, drums, harpsichord and various horns, woodwinds and stringed instruments (both orchestral and plucked).
While much of the style uses the traditional small ensemble sizes of Chamber Music within a non-classical acoustic style, chamber folk can also feature lush orchestral flourishes and similar aspects of arrangement found in other musical styles such as Baroque Pop. Nico's Chelsea Girl and Joanna Newsom's Ys, for example, feature these aspects. Artists such as Vashti Bunyan, Judee Sill, Nico, Duncan Browne and Nick Drake are commonly associated with the style, while more modern proponents of the genre include Newsom and Fleet Foxes.
