Hosted by Ken Hudson
Broadcast the 4th Sunday of the month - 10am-12noon
Welcome to Roving Folk – here we are again! Music this month is based around a conversation I had in 2023 – with Joe Nicholson and Maureen – his partner of more than 40 years. Mo & Joe, from Harrogate, had been singing and hosting clubs and singarounds for many years and were frequently to be found welcoming performers at Whitby, Saltburn & Cleckheaton festivals.
Joe and Mo are now no longer with us, but they leave happy memories of many a rousing singaround – we hope that friends, family, and all who knew them will enjoy hearing their voices once again – thanks to both.
With music from … Simon Mayor & Hilary James – Carolan’s Concerto; Leather Bottle – Leather Bottle; Leather Bottle – Three Score & Ten; Dogsbody Ceilidh Band – Jigs – Blackthorn Stick, Haste to the Wedding, Connaught Rambles; Martyn Wyndham Read – Old Whitby Harbour; Archie Fisher-Bogie’s Bonnie Belle; Dana Robinson – The Angel’s Share; Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer – Our Golden Age; June Tabor – A Cold Wind – Spyship Tv Theme; Fred Jordan – John Barleycorn; Bob & Gill Berry – I wandered by the brookside; The Wellermen & The Longest Johns – One More Pull; Jez Lowe & Andy May – Piper’s Lonnen; Colum Sands – Fred Jordan’s Boots; Close Quarters – Candlelight; Sean Taylor – Everything; Yvonne Lyon – The Last Brightness of Everything; Yvonne Lyon – Insignificant as Stars; Brian Peters – Old Joe Clarke; Brian Peters – Old Ebony/The Shingle Beach/Trip to Stowmarket; Quartz – The Willow (J. Matthews); The Watersons – The Good Old Way; Simon Mayor & Hilary James – Lord Inchiquin …
Its time join us for our January edition of Roving Folk – and since this is the first show of 2026 – we’d like to wish you Happy New Year – with a hope that 2026 will be a good year for you.
In the show today – as well as music with links to the start of the year – we’ve music from people appearing in the area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his folk diary – and David Kidman has some new releases to bring to our attention.
With music from … Jim Malcolm – Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin ♫; Ranagri – The Snow It Melts the Soonest; Richard & Linda Thompson – We Sing Hallelujah; Albion Band – Time to Ring Some Changes; Sam Carter – The Oakham Poachers; Lea Nicholson – Here We Come a Wassailing; Lea Nicholson – I’m the Urban Spaceman; Moloney & O’Donnell – Joseph Baker; Pete Coe – Catch Me If You Can; Damien Barber & Mike Wilson – The Old Songs; Boo Hewerdine & Yvonne Lyon – Things found in Books; Boo Hewerdine & Yvonne Lyon – Marion and Sydney; Sidney Torch, The Yetties, Bellowhead – Archer’s theme; The Yetties – Landlord fill the flowing Bowl ; Bellowhead – Roseville Fair; Bob Arnold – All Jolly Fellows; Judy Collins & Willie Nelson – When I Go; The Magpie Arc – The Ballad of Rebecca Young; Jake Thackeray – Borders; Jake Thackeray – The Municipal Workers’ Strike; Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon – Pathfinder; Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon – Stop at Nothing; Simon Mayor & Hilary James – Wassail ; The Dubliners – Deportees; Oak – The Bunch of Thyme, the Perfect Cure, the Sweets of May; The McCalmans – A man’s a man for a that …
Well – we’ve arrived at ‘Twixt-mas – 3 sleeps past Christmas Day – 4 sleeps to the new year – and – it’s still the time to be festive! – we have songs and tunes which we only hear at this time of year – Geoff Twentyman will be looking back at an event which happened in November – we’ll be looking forward to the new year – and David Kidman will be along with his Seasonal Choice.
With music by …… John Kirkpatrick – Chariots; John Conolly – I am Christmas; Mountain Lament – Hush Baby; Jodie Marshall – Winters Run & Troika; Ralph McTell – In the Bleak Midwinter; Chad – Global Warming; Kith & Kin – Wexford Carol; Mike McGrother & Infant Hercules Choir – Nelson’s Blood – Live in Yarm High Street; The Young Uns – Three Dads Walking; Karen Pfeiffer & Paul Walker – Kling, Glöckchen, Klingelingeling; Ron Taylor and Jeff Gillett – The Lambskin Carol; The Petersens – Mele Kalikimaka; Gianna Williams – Callissun; John Doran and Janice Burns – The Trees are all Bare; Jez Lowe – A Message from a Mandolin; The Young Uns – Tiny Notes; Nowell, Sing We Clear – Penny for the Ploughboys; Pete Coe – Bring the New Year In; Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith – Sing We All Merrily; Lynn & Will Rowan – Jacobstowe Wassail; Pentangle – The Cherry Tree Carol; Melrose Quartet – Lullay My Liking; Robin Williamson – When Winter Comes; Pamela Ward & Paul Cherrington – Dancing at Grenoside; John Conolly – Boar’s Head & Bells; Nowell, Sing We Clear – Song for the New Year; Notts Alliance – The New January Man; Chad – It’s Behind You; Windborne – Welcome in Another Year …
Welcome to our November edition of Roving Folk – In the show today – music with links to the month of Remembrance – memories, tributes and an appreciation of Archie Fisher – music from people appearing in the area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his folk diary – and David Kidman will also be here with his recommended choice of the latest releases.
With music from …. Archie Fisher – Final Trawl; Mick Ryan – Poppies; Pamela Ward & Paul Cherrington – Sail on By – The Curacoa Disaster; Barbara Dickson – Beautiful Day ; Houghton Weavers – My Brother Sylveste; Donovan and Joan Baez – Colours; John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris – The Gipsy Laddie; John Bromley – Western Island; Barbara Dickson – Witch of the Westmerland; Ray & Archie Fisher -The Night Visiting Song; Archie Fisher – Waltz into Winter; Archie Fisher – The Parting Glass; Andy Irvine – The Titanic (feat. Rens van der Zalm & The Parachilna Parrots); TangleJack – Needs Must When the Devil Drives; Kerry Smith – The Trees are Growing Taller; Those Folk – Life Inside a Box; Narthen – Daddy Fox; Narthen – Hanter Dro 2 From Tud & Hamster Grow; Amy Goddard – Sing with Me; Joe Collins – Rosie’s Last Waltz; Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh – Carol of the Bells; Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones – I Traced Her Little Footmarks in the Snow; JIB – The Old Pubs; The Heathen Kings – Rambling Sailor …..
Welcome to our October edition of Roving Folk – In the show today – music with links to the month of October – memories and tributes to a number of performers who are no longer with us – music from people appearing in the area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his folk diary – and David Kidman will also be here with his recommended latest releases.
With music from …. York Waits – Blow thy horn, hunter; Maggie Boyle – October Song; Grace Notes – Gathering Mushrooms; Gordon Bok – Turning Toward the Morning; Graham Shaw – I am the Minstrel; Pentangle – Let No Man Steal Your Thyme; Mike Nicolson & Company – When All Men Sing; Riley Baugus – False Hearted Lovers Blues; Jack Rutter – Bold Nevison the Highwayman; Colum Sands – Beyond the Frame; Will Finn & Rosie Calvert – The Trawling Trade; Steve Knightley – The Winter Yards; Muckram Wakes – Pulling-Down Song; Carson McHone – September Song; Katie Spencer – Come Back and Find Me; Katie Spencer – Forget Me Not; Damian O’Kane & Ron Block – Two Metre Gossip -The Icy Skid; Andy Irvine – Carrowclare; Graham Shaw – Tin Can Squat; Benny Graham & Bob Fox – Have a Game for the Crack; Billy Mitchell and Bob Fox – Ramblin Rover; Graham Shaw – The Ghost of Mary Hey; Hedgehog Pie – The March of the King Of Laois, 1975…
Welcome – Come and join us for our September edition of Roving Folk – earlier this month we had a full moon – a corn moon – with an eclipse – I’m told that (this year) we’ll need to look out for the harvest moon on 7th October.
In the show today – as well as music with links to the month of September – we have lots of music from people appearing in the area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his folk diary to tell us where they can be seen – and David Kidman will be harvesting the latest releases ….
With music from … Steeleye Span – Harvest of the Moon; Runrig – Harvest Moon; The Corries – Skye Boat Song; Archie Fisher – Western Island; Maddy Prior – Marigold & Harvest Home; Albion Band – Harvest Anthem; Artisan – What’s The Use of Wings; Dougie Mackenzie & Brian Miller – Bonnie Light Horseman; Kimber’s Men – Barrett’s Privateers; Phil Beer (Arizona Smoke Review) – Factory; Phil Beer – Bus Stop; Philip Boulding – Sally Gardens; Caffrey, McGurk, Madge – The Whitby Whaler; Mike Harding – Rochdale Cowboy 1975; Stringtown Pickers – Harvest Moon; United Bible Studies – Viewing the Waterhen; United Bible Studies – On Silbury Hill; Gwenifer Raymond – Dreams of Rhiannon’s Birds; Gwenifer Raymond – Cattywomp; Mikey Kenney – The Doing of the Bee; Lonan – Oddy Locks; Lonan – Sands of Dover; Lester Simpson – Long, Long Tunnel; Shelley Posen – Little Ice Shanty; Johnny Flynn & Robert McFarlane – Coins for the Eyes; Hop-Picking in Kent – BBC newsreel; Albion Dance Band – Hopping Down in Kent; Shirley & Dolly Collins – Harvest Medley; Keith Kendrick + Musica Inebriata – Harvest Supper Song …..
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
Happy Listening!
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 ….
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