Hosted by Ken Hudson
Broadcast the 4th Sunday of the month - 10am-12noon
Welcome to Roving Folk – this time, we have a number of links with the month of September – music from performers visiting our area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary – and David Kidman has his pick of the new releases.
With music from …. Nic Jones with Pete and Chris Coe – Heights of Alma; Heritage – Ripe and Bearded Barley; Rosanne Cash with Johnny Cash – September When It Comes; Stuart Douglas – Sailing to Philadelphia; Alex Campbell – The Gresford Disaster; Bob Fox – My Love is in America; Mick Hanley – Lord Franklin; Maclaine Colston & Saul Rose – Bold Fisherman; Alistair Anderson – Dave Pattison’s Birthday; Alistair Anderson – The Pies in the Parish House Set; Chris Manners – Tall Trees Cast Long Shadows; Hebble – The Oldham White hare; Tom McConville – Rocky Road; Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings – London Waterman; Chris While & Julie Matthews – King of Sheds; Chris While & Julie Matthews – Our Corner of The World; Georgia Shackleton Trio – Frost Fair; Den Miller – All It Took Was Time; Phoebe Rees – The Didin Didin (Si Kahn); Colum Sands – Before Winter Sets In; Hamish Imlach – The Calton Weaver (Nancy Whiskey); Session A9 – C Set ….
Welcome to Roving Folk.
This is Part 2 of our 7th Virtual Festival of Folk past & present – once again, we have a number of venues to visit – the site for our imaginary festival is extensive – we have tents, marquees, village halls, and open-air entertainment – there’s a main stage, many smaller stages and some very small intimate venues. Mary Twentyman is in the new Festival Memories Marquee – David Kidman has his special festival selection of New Releases, and Folk Rewind brings us recordings of much-loved artists who are no longer with us.
With music from …. Paul McKenna Band – Western Island; Doug Eunson and Sarah Matthews – Lilly Gilders; Linda Kelly & Hazel Richings (Hissyfit) with Maggie Boyle – Northern Tide; Caffrey, McGurk & Madge – Time for the Leaving; Bill Price – Fosters Mill; Gary & Vera Aspey – From the North; Pat Ryan – Leaboy’s Lassie; Jolly Jack – Santa Fe Trail; Tees-side Fettlers – Chemical Workers song; Den Miller – Cheese Strings (live); Al O’Donnell – What put the blood (18th Sept 1966); Pyewackett – The Well Below the Valley; Stanley Accrington – Battle of Maldon; The Kipper Family – Dido Fido; The Yetties – The Village Band; Roger Davies – Brighouse on a Saturday Night; The Yetties – The Old Arm-Chair; Mike Waterson – Rushcart Song; Robb Johnson – Winter Turns To Spring; The Wilderness Yet – Mary & The Soldier; Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood; Robb Johnson – You Don’t Have to say goodbye; Seth Lakeman & Fisherman’s Friends – Brave Volunteers; The Seaham Timesteps Dance & Drama Group – Bringing it Home; The Lowland Folk Four -The Jute Mill Song; Dolly O’Rourke, Aileen Carr, Barbara Dymock and Lesley McLuckie – The Women o’ Dundee; Southern Nonsuch Meet – Emma’s Waltz; Saul Rose & Maclaine Colston – Barbaree; Jim Couza – Alabama Jubilee …..
Welcome to Roving Folk.
This is our 7th Virtual Festival of Folk past & present – once again, we have a number of venues to visit – the site for our imaginary festival is extensive – we have tents, marquees, gazebos, village halls, open air entertainment – there’s a main stage, many smaller stages and some very small intimate venues – and so the list goes on. The largest – and most magnificent marquee – this year – is devoted to ‘folk club memories’ – once inside, you’ll see that it’s divided into many sections. Last month, I asked if any of our listeners would like to share their memories of folk clubs over the years – and we had a wonderful response.
One of the advantages of having a virtual festival is that we can include recordings of much-loved artists who are no longer with us – that is where Folk Rewind proves to be very useful.
With music from …. Ken And Brad Kolodner – Turkey in The Pea Patch; Mike Harding – Away with Rum; Roy Bailey – Poverty Knock; The Blackpool Taverners – Windmills; Vin Garbutt – Street of Staithes; Hebric – Fairy Dance & Davy, Davy, Nick-nack; Nic Jones – Annan water; Nic Jones – The Trooper – at Kenilworth Folk Club, April 1973 ; Jimmy McBeath – Tramps & Hawkers; Katie Nicholas – The Wheel; Anne Briggs – Hills of Greenmore; The Songwainers – The Banks of Red Roses (25th July 1965); Mike & Jaquey Gabriel with Sue Burgess – Bartholomew Fair& Room for Company (1st Dec 1974); The Songwainers – Whose Pigs are These (29th Nov 1971); Debbie McClatchy – Liza Jane; Grace Notes – The Dewy Ones; Banoffi – Tune for The Elves; The Watersons -Broom of the Cowdenowes (25th June 1965); Pete & Chris Coe – When this old hat was new; Banoffi – Bluebells (Live); Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher – Weary Winter; Mike Waterson – Rushcart Song; Bright Phoebus – Down in the Valley to Pray; Peter & Barbara Snape – Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier; Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger – The Song of the Iron Road; The Northern Front – Farewell Johnny Miner; The Exiles – The Pound-a-week Rise; Cleckheaton Festival Music Hall Community Singing (short); John Foreman 1966 – Pretty Polly Perkins; Janet Russell – All the Tunes in the World
Welcome to Roving Folk – this time, we have links with weather (quite wet, recently) – and the month of June – music from performers visiting our area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary – and David Kidman will be giving us his recommendations from his bag of latest releases.
With music by …. Steeleye Span – One Misty Moisty Morning; Steeleye Span – Rosebud in June; Cyril Tawney – The Oggie Man; The Wolfe Tones – Spancil Hill; Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Jug of Punch; Christopher Rowe & Ian Clark – Humber Bridge; Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – New Barbary; Swan Arcade – Babylon (BBC John Peel Session 1973); Babylon Is Fallen – Second Ireland Sacred Harp Convention – 2012; Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham – Shine On; Jim Radford – The Shores of Normandy; Eric Bogle – The Gift of Years; Cockersdale – The Drovers (1983); Cockersdale – Billy Armitage; Graham Pirt & Val Marsden – Turning the Clock Back; The Tees-side Fettlers – Whitby Whaler; Kaia Kater – Maker Taker; Kaia Kater – History in Motion; Alan Hull – Clear White Light; Alan Hull – Windy Miller; Ruth Moody – The Spell of The Lilac Bloom (Featuring Joey Landreth); Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger – Hello Friend; Tola Custy & Cyril O’Donoghue – Four Pence A Day; Dransfield – What will we tell them; Pyewackett – Bonny Hawthorn – 1981 ….
Welcome to Roving Folk – we have music from performers who are visiting our area – we continue to celebrate the Springtime theme – and will be dipping into the archives again – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary – and David Kidman will be giving us his recommendations from the crop of latest releases.
With music by … Robin Dransfield – Spencer the Rover; Robin & Barry Dransfield – Rout of the Blues; The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Seeds of Love; Jim McCann & The Dubliners – Down by The Glenside; Robb Johnson – From Here to Palestine; The Voice Squad – Reconciliation; Paddie Bell with Finbar and Eddie Furey – I Know Where I’m Going; Hebric – No Telling; Sherburn Bartley Sanders – William Taylor; Genticorum – Le Persuadeur; Monkey’s Fist – Santa Anna; Jez Lowe, Bob Fox, Julie Mathews – Pull Down Lads; Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh – My Love’s in Germany; Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – Press Gang Song; Angeline, Cohen & Jon – Turn Round Newton; Jon, Angeline & Cohen – Eyes on The Prize; Wendy Grossman – South Wind; Wendy Grossman – One, I Love; Ray Cooper – The Sky Was Black with Diamonds; Dove’s Vagaries – Oh Napoleon; Simon Mayor – Eleanor Plunkett; Rum Ragged – The Dewy Dells of Yarrow; Jake Blount – Where Did You Sleep Last Night; The Barely Works – Byker Hill …
Welcome to Roving Folk – we have lots of music from performers who are visiting our area – we celebrate the natural world with some songs with Springtime theme – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary – and David Kidman will be giving us his recommendations from the crop of latest releases.
With music from …… Sarah Matthews – April Song; Pete Morton – The Rivers of the Isle; Martyn Wyndham Read – When the Green Man Walks the Forest; The McCalmans – Yellow on the Broom; Dougie MacLean – The Gael (Last of the Mohicans Theme) – clip; Dougie MacLean – Caledonia (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013) ; Frances Black – All the Lies That You Told Me; Chris Manners – 50 Shades of White; Alice Jones – Wedding Mazurka & Poor Strange Girl; Louise & Chris Rogan – My Love he sails with Nelson; John Tams – Harry Stone (Hearts of Coal); Sid Kipper – The Kipper Country Code – clip; The Kipper Family – Joan Sugarbeet; Kitewing – The Greenland Shark; Kitewing – Holy Mackerel; Phil Odgers & John Kettle – The Passing of My Life; Phil Odgers & John Kettle – If I Knew; Martin Simpson – Donal Og (Live); Pitmen Poets – Factory & Working Man; Benny Graham – Kellyburn Brae; Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithewaite Kilcoyne & Jon Bickley – Dear Polly; Angeline Morrison – Grace will lead me Home; Vic Gammon – First of May; Magpie Lane – May Song …..
Welcome to Roving Folk – we have lots of music from performers who are visiting our area – we celebrate the month of St Patrick by looking back at members of the band Planxty – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary – and David Kidman will be giving us his recommendations from the crop of latest releases.
With music from …Joan Baez – Donna, Donna; The Dubliners – I’m a Rover; The Carter Family – Who’s That Knockin’ on My Window (1938); Paul Brady – The Lakes of Pontchartrain – 1977; Planxty – The Blacksmith; Planxty – Only Our Rivers; Daoiri Farrell – Blackwater Side; Sandy Denny – Blackwaterside; Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley – One Foot of Silver, One Foot of Gold; Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley – Unclear Sphere; Paul Thompson – You and Your Child; Paul Thompson – Hold the Light; Jeff Wasserman – The Last Defender; Jeff Wasserman – Army St & Lincoln St; Shirley Collins – Adieu to All judges And Juries; Kate Rusby – Singy Songy Tour; Kate Rusby (with Nic Jones) – The Lark; Gaelforce – Down to Old Maui; Ken Wilson – Bampton Fair; Christine Kydd – Bonnie Wee Lad (Wow Song); Damien Barber – The Dying Californian; Fay Hield – Jenny Wren; Sons of Town Hall – The Line Between; Heptonstall Players – Pace Egg Play 2011; The McCalmans – The Pace Egg Song; Magpie & Friends – Singing through the Hard Times ….
Welcome to Roving Folk – this month sees a plethora of performers visiting our area – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary to keep them in order – and David Kidman will be giving us his recommended listening from the crop of latest releases.
With music from …
Brooks Williams – Ring Those Golden Bells; Vin Garbutt – John Doonan’s Hornpipe; Bill Dodds – Goodnight Vin; Vin Garbutt – Old Parkin Raine the Fiddler; Ed Pickford – See A Toad; The Wilsons – I Am Coal; Ken Wilson – The Black Seam; Off the Cuff – Children of the Dark; Peppercorn – Admiral Benbow; Richard Trethewey – The Lonesome Track; Tom Bliss – Sound of the Drum; Tom Bliss – The Seeds of Love (with a veggie twist); The Fisherman’s Friends – Sam’s Gone Away; Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton – Harpers Frolic Bonnie Kate; Serious Sam Barrett – Female Drummer; Serious Sam Barrett – Holmfirth Anthem; Katherine Priddy – Selah; Katherine Priddy – Ready to Go; Martin Simpson – Skydancers; Martin Simpson – Flash Company; The Longest Johns – Shawneetown; The Watersons – The Pace-Egging Song; Moya Brennan – Theme from Harry’s Game; The Yetties – The Sheepstealer; Pete Shutler – King of the Fairies; The Yetties – La Morna; The Yetties – Sweet Thyme …
Welcome to our latest edition of Roving Folk – the 4th Sunday Folk Show – on Phoenix FM – we have songs connected to the time of year – hope 2024 will be a good one for you – Geoff Twentyman will be along with his Folk Diary – and David Kidman will be giving us with his recommendations from the crop of latest releases.
But – before all of that – in the first part of our show we’ll be saying a fond farewell to our friend, Chris Coe, who passed away, after a long illness, on the 20th December. Chris has given so much to the world with her music, her teaching and her boundless love of people – she touched many of our lives – and there are countless people singing, dancing and playing an instrument now because of her influence.
With music by ….
Archie Fisher – The January Man; David Kettlewell & Trotto – Chickens; David Kettlewell & Trotto – The Bells of St Mary’s; Pete & Chris Coe – When this old hat was new; New Victory Band – Long, Long Trail; Bandoggs – The Herrings Head; Salmon Tails; Little Fishes; Chris Coe & Maggie Holland – Two Sisters; Jimmy Cooper & Chris Coe – Edit – Isle of Capri, Play to me Gypsy; Chris Coe – 2001 – Young Leonard; Chris Coe & Johnny Adams – Peeler Creek Waltz & Dog in Difficulty; Barbara Dickson & Rab Noakes – Together Forever; Caffrey, McGurk & Madge – The Hanged Man; Nick Hart & Tom Moore – Bold Riley; Julie Atkin – The Unquiet Grave; Hirondelle – I Drew My Ship; Oysterband – New York Girls; Den Miller – Cheese Strings (live) (Den’s parody of Richard Thompson’s Beeswing); Good Lovelies – Song for A Winters Night; The Magpie Arc – Jack Frost; Schmoozenbergs – Cortisol Swing; Merry Hell – The Baker’s Daughter ….
Happy Christmas to all our Listeners – wherever you may be!
Welcome to Festive Roving Folk!
With music from ….
Crickmore: Crewe – In Praise of Christmas; The Family Chadwick – Intro & Outro; Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa; Chad – Foxtrot Tango Calling; Hazel with Chad – Christmas Fairy; A Winter Union – Minstrels; Doc Watson – Appalachian Christmas Lullaby; Magpie Lane – In Winter Time; Kate MacLeod & The Jean Ritchie Experience – Wintergrace; Magpie – Give Light; John Kirkpatrick – The Trees Are All Bare; Robb Johnson – Move On, Egyptian; Robb Johnson – Hallelujah! Oh, Be Joyful; O’Hooley & Tidow – We Sing Hallelujah; The Young Tradition, Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins – Is It Far to Bethlehem; Gary Watson – Interlude – The Great Frost; The Young Tradition, Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins – Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day; Simon Mayor – The Snowman’s Song; Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden – Shepherds Arise; Kate Rusby – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree-Sleigh Ride; The Furrow Collective – O Watch the Stars; Don McLean – Vincent (Starry, Starry Night); The Roches – Star of Wonder; Swan Arcade – Mighty Rocky Road; The New Victory Band – Harpers Frolic & Bonny Kate; Mark Knopfler – Secondary Waltz; Bryony & Alice – Ripon Sword Dance; Nowell, Sing We Clear – Kris Kringle; Peter, Paul & Mary – Christmas Dinner; Kate Rusby – Spean (Brightest & Best); The Irish Rovers – Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake; Simon Mayor – Hail Smiling Morn
