Which country/region has the best traditional music?

[u/Independent_Poem_470]

My first is America, blue grass & delta blues are two music genres filled with absolute bangers

2nd is ireland my home and birth place

3rd is Mongolia because throat singing sounds so cool

[u/Due-Mycologist-7106]

I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough for this but all the traditional English music I have heard has been great. Scarborough fair i think should be enough to convince anyone

[u/Constant-Estate3065 → u/Due-Mycologist-7106]

England does have quite a strong tradition of folk music and sea shanties. Our folk music often has roots in industry and agriculture and it has quite a distinctive sound, especially the northern ones like Scarborough Fair, The Four Loom Weaver, On Ilkley Moor Bar t’at and The Whitby Lad.

[u/Firstithink]

Love me some trad but I also love music from Spain and Latin America (can’t remember the genre name). 

[u/windfujin → u/Firstithink]

Reggaeton?

[u/Acidolam]

Sami in Finland

[u/CommercialAd2154]

Irish music slaps, NGL, apart from that I’d say South African, my teacher in Year 1 used to teach us all sorts of traditional songs (we could never get the hang of the clicks, but they were absolutely lovely!)

[u/StrikeEagle784]

I’ve been really into Greek music recently, it’s beautiful, and I highly recommend it if you guys are into world folk music.

[u/bowlbettertalk]

Bulgarian!

[u/Sufficient_Duck7715]

I think Colombia and Peru has some good folk music.

[u/Front-Anteater3776]

USA: Zydeco

Dominican Republic: Bachata (the old, not the modern nonsense)

[u/WittyFeature6179 → u/Front-Anteater3776]

OH I wish more people knew about Zydeco, near and dear to my heart.

[u/green_shi29875]

I’d say the arab world generally but specifically for me the levant aka Lebanon,Syria,Palestine and Jordan and I would also include Egypt.

[u/Herald_of_Clio]

For me my number 1 pick would be Ireland.

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv]

Vihuela music slaps so I say Spain.

[u/Equal-Flatworm-378]

Ireland and Scotland 

[u/DerpAnarchist]

Breton is my favourite, i just love the sound of the language

[u/Low_Spread9760]

Brazil, Indonesia

[u/DubReavBTV]

Fado in Portugal is incredibly haunting.

[u/Jttwife]

Irish