Hosted by Ken Hudson
Broadcast the 4th Sunday of the month - 10am-12noon
Welcome to Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show on Phoenix FM – Geoff Twentyman returns with his Diary Dates for the remaining days of August and for September – and once again David Kidman will be along with some recommended listening. Artisan harmonies remembered, also – the 200th Anniversary of the first steam locomotive on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, news of the final Cleckheaton Festival Charity Concert, and much, much more ….
With music by ….The Medlars – Copshawholme Fair & Newcastle Wedding; Artisan – Do You Remember; Artisan – The Iron Road; We Mavericks – Lonesome Valley; Roy Wilcock & Bridget Guest – Hauling Coal to Stockton; Mark Dowding – Last Train; Stanley Accrington – Pi; Pete Coe – Catch me if you can; John Conolly – Tom of Holmfirth; Jez Lowe – Get Your Skates On; Flaco Jimenez – Marguerita – Nov 2012; Dave Webber & Annie Fentiman – Constant Lovers; Barbara Dickson – Millworker; Ray Fisher – Shift and Spin; Clementine Lovell – Sparrow; Clementine Lovell – John Barnett; Woody Guthrie – Deportee (Woody’s Home Tape); Steeleye Span – Trees are Whispering; Dick Miles – Song of the Swift; The Urban Folk Quartet – Boat Up the River; Bill Elliott & Kevin Youldon – Just One Spark; Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger – The Song of the Iron Road; Ian Campbell Folk Group – The Sun is Burning; Sarah Morgan – Keep You in Peace; Flaco Jimenez – La Paloma – Nov 2012
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Welcome to the 2025 Roving Folk Virtual Summer Festival of Folk past & present. As usual – the site for our imaginary festival is extensive – we have tents, marquees and open-air entertainment – there’s a main stage, many smaller stages and some very small intimate venues.
We asked some of our listeners if they would like to share their ideas of who they would like to see at our virtual festival – using Folk Rewind, we can see and hear many of our favourite performers who are no longer with us.
Also – Geoff Twentyman has a report on the West Somerset Festival of Folk – and David Kidman investigates ‘The Wild Rover’.
With music by … John Conolly – Punch & Judy Man; Simon Mayor – Lord Inchiquin; Freshly Ground – Princess Caraboo; Issy & David Emeney with Kate Riaz – Bedtime; Rob Barratt – Change in Supermarkets; Don Partridge – Rosie; Sylvia Needham & Pete Norman – Bonny Kate; Mr Fox – Rip Van Winkle; Joan Baez & Pete Seeger – Lonesome Valley; Barry & Ingrid Temple – Come In; Johnny Handle – Adam Buckham-o; Bill Elliott – Rap her to Bank & Jowl, Jowl and Listen; Simon Mayor & Hilary James – Taxi Horn Rag; Sam Larner – The Wild Rover; Sean Corcoran, Dónal Maguire & Gerry Cullen – The Wild Rover; Grace Notes – Lullaby; Coope, Boyes & Simpson – Now Is the Cool of the Day; Jez Lowe – A Message from a Mandolin; Carolina Chocolate Drops – Cornbread and Butterbeans; The Haar – The Wild Rover; Brian Peters – The Wild Rover; Rambling Jack Elliott – Talking Dustbowl Blues; Allan Taylor – Derroll Adams – Banjo Man; Don Partridge – Stealin’; Louis Killen – Ca’ the Yowes tae the Knowes; High Level Ranters – ft Tom Gilfellon – Cushy Butterfield ….
Welcome to Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show on Phoenix FM – Geoff Twentyman has a bumper crop of Diary Dates for the remaining days of June – also July & August – and once again David Kidman will be along with some recommended listening.
We have a new song of Old Sheffield – a dip into War Horse in concert at the Royal Albert Hall – songs of summer – the Brid Fiddler visits Otley – memories of Barnsley folk club – news of an art exhibition in Brighouse – we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Locomotion No.1 – also festival news – and a recommended website to visit.
With music from … Le Vent Du Nord – D’ouest en est; Pam Ward & Paul Cherrington (with Tim van Eyken) – Whitsuntide Clothes; Tim Van Eyken – Rolling Home (with Narration); Ray Hearne – The Longest Hot Summer; Steeleye Span – The Hills of Greenmore; Jim & Lynette Eldon – What a Windy Night & Champagne Charlie; Chris Manners – Tuppenny Ha’penny Love Song; Derek& Dorothy Elliott – Bring Us a Barrel; Dave Burland – King George Hunt; Dave Burland (intro) – Grey Funnel Line; Roger Davies – Peter Brook’s Paintings; Ron Angel – Locomotion No.1; Doc Watson – Nobody Knows but Me; Kate Daisy Grant & Nick Pynn – Queen of May (Hawthorn); Kate Daisy Grant & Nick Pynn – Keening Song (Hazel); Ironopolis Singers – Two Years in the Ranks; Ironopolis Singers – A Railwayman’s Farewell to Darlington; Odette Michell – All the Bonny Ships; Lady Maisery with Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith – Good as Gone; Fisherman’s Friends – No Hopers, Jokers & Rogues; Dick Miles – A Fair Maid Walking; The Magpies – Sweet Dreams; Simpson Cutting Kerr – Cruel Mother; Beat the Drum – Once in a Lifetime ….
Welcome to Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show on Phoenix FM – Geoff Twentyman has his Diary Dates for the remaining days of May – and for June – and David Kidman has some new releases to tell us about.
This month – Allan Taylor is out on tour – it’s his ‘Farewell to the Road’ Tour – we look back at his group Cajun Moon and hear some of his best-known songs – Martin Carthy has a new album, and marks his 84th birthday – Peggy Seeger is also on her ‘Final Farewell Tour’ and has a new album – Rory McLeod is at Ryburn – and we remember the life of Wizz Jones, who died recently.
With music by …. Cajun Moon – Calling On; Cajun Moon – Fiddler John; The Yetties – Stanton Drew; Barbara Dickson – The Morning Lies Heavy on Me; Allan Taylor -Roll on the Day; Albion Country Band – New St. George & La Rotta; Martin Carthy – Springhill Mine Disaster; Peggy Seeger – Sing About These Hard Times; Rory McLeod – Never have any use for a gun (live); Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner – May Carol (2023 Remaster); Steve & Julie Wigley – Morris Dancers; Hebble – Spring Hill Mine (Chris Stewart cover); Hebble – The Mam (Sarah Von Racknitz cover); Bella Hardy & Si Winstanley – The Herring Girl; Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer – The Mine; Odette Michelle – The Woodlark & the Fieldfare (ft. Ninebarrow); Robb Johnson – Better Now Than Nothing; Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver – Hawk & Crow; Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts – The Soldier’s Adieu; Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts – The Bonny House of Airlie; Wizz Jones – National Seven (Hebden Bridge May 2012); Wizz & Simeon Jones – Young Fashioned Ways (2 Seas Session); Colum Sands – Buskers (Live at the Woodman Folk Club); Peggy Seeger – Slow; The Often Herd – Cool Summer Rain
Welcome to Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show on Phoenix FM – harmony singing from Barrie & Ingrid Temple – appreciation of wildlife and the countryside – connections with Easter – a visit to Tyneside – a Yorkshire launch from Bridlington – and also three unique female voices from three different cultures rising in harmony – Michell, Pfeiffer and Kulesh with a song to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day – and much, much more. Geoff Twentyman has his Diary Dates for the remaining days of April – and for May – and David Kidman will be recommending some new releases.
With music from …
Barrie & Ingrid Temple – Come Lend an Ear; Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh – My Love’s in Germany; Kate Rusby – We Will Sing (feat Ladysmith Black Mambazo); Kevin Conneff – The Week Before Easter; Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger – Ballad of the Carpenter; Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick – Lord of the Dance; Steve & Kristi Nebel – Sunrise; Shirley Collins (No Roses) – Just as the Tide Was a Flowing; Bellowhead – Beyond Paradise (Opening Theme Song); Barrie & Ingrid Temple – Hand Me Down Songs; Paul & Liz Davenport – Boggle Hole Pirates; Granny’s Attic – Jack The Sailor; Bob Dylan – Thirsty Boots; Liz Law & Terry Conway – Bonny Tyneside; Liz Law & Terry Conway – Midsummer Blue; Steve Tilston – As Night Follows Day; Alison O’Donnell & Gayle Brogan – Owl; Alison O’Donnell & Gayle Brogan – Swallow; Trash Panda – Blue Skies; Filkin’s Drift – My Pretty Little Highland Mary; Cedar Roots – Joy in the Little Things; The Broadside – Charlie in the Meadow; Chris Baines & Albion Band – I Was the Child; Skinny Lister – Yorkshire Belle; Kate Rusby – Let Your Light Shine (with Barnsley Youth Choir); FolkLaw – Catch the Sun …
Welcome to Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show on Phoenix FM – Geoff Twentyman has his Diary Dates for the remaining days of March – and for April – and David Kidman will be recommending some new releases. We have a reminder that – if you’d like to see the Bill leader ‘Sounding the Century’ Exhibition at Manchester Central Library – there’s only one more week to go. On the show today – along with Pete Coe, Dave Burland and the late Mick Maloney speaking about their links with Bill – we have a rare recording of Woody Guthrie on British Children’s Radio in 1944.
With music from … Danu – Snowbird; Danu – Murphy’s Hornpipe & Lord Gordon’s Reel; And did those feet – The Homeward Tide; And did those feet – All through the night; Spitzer Space Telescope – Midwest Tribute Song; Pete Seeger (1979) – Garden Song; Pete & Chris Coe – When this old hat was New; Marie Little – Story of Cotton; Sam Carter – Long Time Travelling; Home Service – Napoleon’s Grand March & Walk My Way; Christy Moore – Dalesman’s Litany; The Johnstons – The Apprentice Song; Robin & Barry Dransfield – Rout of the Blues; Dave Burland – Here’s the Tender Comin’; Gigspanner – Sovay; Amelia Hogan – Rolling in The Gold; Amelia Hogan – Who Will Watch the Home Place; Reg Meuross – The Gypsy Singer; Woody Guthrie -Wabash Cannonball (Live July 7, 1944); Bert Lloyd – All for Me Grog; Judy Dinning – Water of Tyne; The Fureys – Railway Hotel; Justin Hayward & Mike Batt – Life in A Northern Town …..
23rd February 2025
Welcome to Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show on Phoenix FM – with music from artists appearing in the area – including Johnny Campbell, Steve Tilston, Tom McConville, Pete Morton and Lady Maisery – Geoff Twentyman has his Diary Dates for the remaining days of February – and for March – and David Kidman will be along with some new releases to recommend. There’s a bit of Irish music for the month of St. Patrick from Daoiri Farrell and archive songs from The Johnstons, The Dubliners – and much, much more.
With music from … Johnny Campbell – Roving I Will Go; Steve Tilston – Slip Jigs and Reels; The Johnstons – The Alamo; Barbara Dickson – The Climb; Tom McConville – Home Where My Heart Lives; Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro – It Ain’t Me, Babe; Timothée Chalamet – The Times They Are A-Changin’; Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – Cocoa Tea; Pete Morton – The Traveller; Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith – The Old Churchyard; The Longest Johns – Unison in Harmony; Robin Dransfield – Fair Maids of February; Hilary James – When Summer Comes Again; Simon Mayor – Hewlett; Simon Mayor & Hilary James – Taxi Horn Rag (clip); Sam Amidon – Cusseta; Karine Polwart – Hold Everything; Richard Dawson – Polytunnel; John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff – Candlemas Eve; John Roberts — The Broadside Man (Live); Jim Causley – The Road to Combebow; Daoiri Farrell – Sullivan’s John; The Dubliners – Musheen Durkin; The Dubliners – The Black Velvet Band ….
Welcome to Roving Folk – here we are in January – at the beginning of 2025 – and – like the Roman god Janus – we are looking forward to the year to come but also casting an eye back at what has gone before. Geoff Twentyman has his Diary Dates for February, and also has a separate feature in which he takes time to look back over 2024 – and David Kidman will be along with his recommended new releases.
With music from … Ranagri – High Germany; Pamela Ward & Paul Cherrington – Dancing at Grenoside; Pete Seeger – The Ballad of Lou Marsh; Simon Mayor – Toss the Pancake; Figurehead – Roll the Chariot Along (clip); Kimber’s Men – Banfield’s John Vanden; Linda Kelly & Hazel Riching – Luckiest Sailor; The Jolly Grogsters – Leave Her Johnny; White Sail – Wintertide; Ned Swarbrick – Skomer; Simon Robinson – Cold Haily Windy Night; Sugarwell Hill String Band – Jenny On The Railroad; Maddie Morris – Cedar Swamp; Mic and Susie Darling – Midnight Special; Joe Topping – Bucket of Rain; Johnny Collins – Parting Song; Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz – The Wagoner’s Lad; Fiddlestone – Erie Canal; Steve Tilston – Foolish Me; Wireworms – Derby Ram; Sue Rynhart – A River; Kathryn Tickell – Greystead Hornpipe & Remember Me; Eric Bogle – Now I’m Easy; Ian Robb – Song for the New Year; Blackmore’s Night – Health to The Company …
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22nd December 2024
Welcome to Roving Folk – Well – we’ve jogged into the beginning of this month’s Roving Folk – and – it being 3 sleeps to Christmas Day – it’s just the right time to be festive ! – with songs and tunes which may only get an airing at this time of year – there’s a couple of Christmas conundrums for you – and David Kidman will be along with his Festive Choice
With music from … John Kirkpatrick – Jogging Along with my Reindeer; Karine Polwart – Merry Christmas Everybody; John Kirkpatrick – Chariots; Sheffield Folk Chorale – The Journey; Frances Black – On Grafton Street at Christmas; The Corrie Folk Trio with Paddie Bell – The Cherry Tree Carol; Hilary James & Janet Giraudo – Un flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle; Elizabeth Mitchell – Mary Had a Baby; Ron Taylor and Jeff Gillett – The Lambskin Carol; Ange Hardy – The Little Holly Tree; Artisan – Days of Holly and Mistletoe; Jim Lawton – The Clock (Almanac Reading); The Voice Squad – The Holly Bears a Berry (St. Day Carol); Kate Rusby – The Holly and the Ivy; Dr. Strangely Strange – Frosty Mornings; The Liverpool Scene – Winter Poem; Robin Williamson – Drive the Cold Winter Away- Cold and Raw; Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Blanche Comme Le Neige; Kate Rusby – Chiming Bells Carol; Maggie Boyle – I’ll Follow the Star; Doc Watson – Appalachian Lullaby; Steve Winwood – Christmas Is Now Drawing Near; The Teesside Fettlers – Boar’s Head Carol; Cyril Tawney -There Are No Lights on Our Christmas Tree; Simon Mayor – I Saw Three Ships; Windborne – Here We Come A-Wassailing; Windborne – The Turning Year; Windborne – Welcome in Another Year; Dolores & Sean Keane – Like the First Time It’s Christmas-Time; Geoff & Pennie Harris – York Waites; Symondsbury Mummers – Mummers Song; York Waites – Gaudete; Ashley Davis & John Doyle – Merry Christmas to All and Goodnight; Crickmore-Crewe – Carol of the Fieldmice ….
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Welcome to Roving Folk – this month – we’re rapidly rambling toward the festive season – so there’ll be one or two seasonal songs – turning the clock back, we briefly visit the Ryburn Folk Club in October 2019 – Geoff Twentyman is here with a bumper folk diary for Dec & Jan – to tell you what’s going on – and where it’s likely to be happening – and David Kidman will be recommending some new releases ––
With music from …Barrie & Ingrid Temple -Old Jacky Frost; Pete & Chris Coe – Welcome Cold November; Ryburn Pit Band – ‘The Girl with The Blue Dress On’ & ‘Jenny Lind’; Riley Baugus – Last Pale Light in the West; Chuck Campbell – Amazing Grace; The High Kings – Raglan Road; A Winter Union – Minstrels; Crickmore: Crewe – Green Groweth the Holly; Crickmore: Crewe – Carol of the Fieldmice; Three Daft Monkeys – Roses; Tom McConville & Michael Biggins – Azalea; Steve Turner – When Ladies Go a Thieving; Macdara Yeates – Rocking the Cradle; Macdara Yeates – The Irish Navigator; Hands of the Heron – Boat Song; Hands of the Heron – Evergreen; Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones – Time to Remember the Poor; Lady Maisery & Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith – Hope Is Before Us; Jez Lowe – She’ll Always Be Freedom: A Song for Saoirse; Crickmore-Crewe – Oh the Morn, the Merry, Merry Morn; The Chieftains – Lots of Drops of Brandy; The Melrose Quartet – Make the World Anew ….
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Welcome to Roving Folk …. Well – we’ve rambled into the beginning of this month’s Roving Folk – and – it being the time for mists, mellow fruitfulness & magic – there will be one or two seasonal songs – some new releases selected by David Kidman – and Geoff Twentyman will be along with the Folk Diary ….
With music from …. The Corries – October Song; Peter, Paul & Mary – A’ Soalin’; Joni Mitchell – Urge for Going; The Johnstons – The Barleycorn; Shirley Collins – Witch Elder; Bullock Smithy – Scarborough Fair; Kath Reade – Witch; Bob Fox & Stu Luckley – The Two Magicians; Hebble – Spring Hill Mine (Chris Stewart cover); Chris Manners – Wild Garlic Time; Jarvis Cocker – Singing Together; Jez Lowe & Andy May – Piper’s Lonnen; Track Dogs – Disaster at Sea; Ralph McTell – That’ll Do Babe; Ralph McTell – The Girl from the Hiring Fair; The Ciderhouse Rebellion – A Stór Mo Chroí (The Treasure of my Heart); The Ciderhouse Rebellion – Jimmy Murphy; Stick In the Wheel – Watercress-o; Stick In the Wheel – The Cramp; Tony Rose – The Bellringing; Nic Jones – You Won’t Get Me Down in Your Mine; Caffrey, McGurk & Madge – Icy Acres; Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart – The White Cockade; Robin & Barry Dransfield – Faithful Johnny; Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy – Grey October Clouds; Harry Boardman – Cob-o-Coalin; Sue Harris & John Kirkpatrick – The Edgmond Men’s Souling Song
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