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 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 …
Happy Listening!
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 ….
Happy Listening!
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 ….
Happy Listening!
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
Happy Listening!
