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“Modest people, playing gorgeous music, speaking articulately about areas they love. Fabulously calming” – one listener’s description of this multi-award-winning podcast in which Matthew Bannister goes walking with top folk musicians in the landscapes that have inspired them. “A restorative breathing space in sound” – The Telegraph. “Immaculately produced” – The Times
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Malin Lewis on Eilean Shona
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The trans pipe and fiddle player Malin Lewis grew up on a magical island off the West coast of Scotland. There were no roads or cars and their family were the only permanent residents. Home schooled till the age of seven, Malin had an idyllic childhood roaming the forests, building dens and splashing in the shallows on the white sand beaches. In this episode this rising star of the Scottish folk scene - with a hotly anticipated debut album about to be released - makes an emotional return to the island to play on the shore and stage a homecoming concert in the abandoned village hall.
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Find out more about Malin at https://hudsonrecords.co.uk/artist/malin-lewis
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Official Folk Albums Chart Show—5th March 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
This month’s Official Folk Albums Chart Show from Folk on Foot features an interview with Katherine Priddy who is celebrating the success of her second album “The Pendulum Swings”. There’s also music from The Breath, Rachel Sermanni, The Longest Johns, Tapir! and Sir Bryn Terfel.
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Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Bonus Episode: Joe Boyd and John Wood in conversation at Cecil Sharp House
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Joe Boyd and John Wood were the producer and sound engineer behind some of the greatest folk rock albums of the 1960s and 70s. They worked with Pink Floyd on their first single Arnold Layne, with Fairport Convention on Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief and with Nick Drake on Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon. John produced John Martyn’s Bless The Weather and Solid Air while Joe worked with the Incredible String Band. In this conversation with Matthew Bannister on stage at the Indoor Festival of Folk, they tell the extraordinary stories behind the creation of these classic albums.
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Friday Feb 16, 2024
TRÚ on the Mountains of Mourne
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Come with us to the glorious Mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland to meet the band TRÚ. Taking their name from a mythological trio of poet-musicians from ancient Ulster, Zach Trouton, Dónal Kearney and Michael Mormecha combine Irish nationalist, Ulster-Scots and British-Ukrainian heritages, crossing boundaries which have often divided Northern Irish communities in the past. In this beautiful episode they are united in creating sweet close harmonies as they sing traditional songs against the backdrop of some of the UK’s most spectacular countryside.
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Find out more about TRÚ at http://www.tru-music.com/
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Sandra Kerr (and Nancy Kerr) in Warkworth
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
The beloved baggy cloth cat Bagpuss is fifty years old in 2024. We celebrate his birthday by visiting Sandra Kerr at her home in the Northumberland village of Warkworth. Sandra co-wrote and arranged the music for the series and provided some of the voices. In her cosy music room she shows us her Bagpuss souvenirs, reflects on the show’s enduring appeal and sings one of the songs. Then, on a walk along the River Coquet, Sandra looks back to the folk revival of the 1960s, recalling working as a nanny for Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in exchange for music lessons. Finally, she’s joined by her daughter Nancy Kerr to play traditional Northumbrian dance tunes. A warm, fascinating and entertaining meeting with one of the enduring stars of the folk world.
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Find out more about Sandra at https://www.sandrakerr.net/
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
This year’s seasonal episode takes us to the village of Mallwyd in mid Wales to join the ancient tradition of the plygain carols. On a dark, cold night, local people gather in the warm and welcoming St Tydecho’s Church to sing Welsh language carols which have been handed down through successive generations of their families. They’re joined by Gwilym Bowen Rhys who unearthed his carol in a second hand book shop and by Owen Shiers (Cynefin) whose singing group travels around several plygain services at this time of year. Asked why she joins in, one singer exclaims: “I just feel part of the ages!”
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Find out more about Gwilym at https://www.gwilymbowenrhys.com and Owen at https://cynefinmusic.wales
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Katie Spencer at Spurn Point
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Come to “The Edge of the Land” with the wonderful singer, songwriter and guitarist Katie Spencer. She was born and brought up in East Yorkshire. In this episode she takes us to one of her favourite places: Spurn Point, a narrow spit of land that stretches three miles out into the sea. As we head for the lighthouse at the end, she sings some of her gorgeous songs on the beach and talks about her musical inspiration, but will we be cut off by the tide?
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Find out more about Katie at https://www.katiespencer.net/
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Jon Wilks in Birmingham
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Jon Wilks is singlehandedly bringing folk music to a wider audience, through his excellent TradFolk website and Old Songs Podcast and of course by singing and playing the music itself. In this episode, he takes us for a walk around the stomping grounds of his youth in the centre of Birmingham, sharing his fascinating insights into the history of music making in the city and performing songs on the very spot where they were originally collected. Oh, and then there’s the sausage roll incident in Greggs!
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Friday Sep 15, 2023
Fiona Soe Paing in Aberdeenshire
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
When the Scottish Burmese sound artist Fiona Soe Paing discovered that one of her ancestors was a traditional singer, she resolved to make a contemporary electronic album reflecting the music and folk tales of her home county of Aberdeenshire.
On this walk up Bennachie and then along the coast, she sings some of the songs on the very spot where they were inspired, including John Hosie’s Well (said to have sprung from the ground where his tears fell when he returned from a long imprisonment to find his lover was married to another) and the rock where Maggie Machlin is said to have died from exposure after being ostracised for falling pregnant out of wedlock.
Then it’s off to the fishing village of Pennan, for an atmospheric performance of The Fisher’s Lullaby on the beach and a 40th anniversary screening of the classic film Local Hero in the village hall.
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Find out more about Fiona at https://www.fionasoepaing.co.uk/
Walk with Fiona's album via the Echoes app: https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/sov0xzgBQYdoAfFr
Friday Sep 01, 2023
The Music of the Big Walk
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
On August 4th 2023, Folk on Foot host Matthew Bannister set off on his biggest walk yet. Over two weeks, he covered 186 miles from Wickham Festival in Hampshire to Folk East in Suffolk, raising thousands of pounds for the charity Help Musicians. Every evening he was met (in a pub, of course), by some of the folk world’s finest musicians. This bonus episode treats you to the musical highlights that spurred Matthew on his way. You will hear:
Day 1: Rosie Hodgson and Rowan Piggott of The Wilderness Yet: “The Bee Boy Song”
Day 2: Steve Knightley, Johnnie Kalsi and Eliza Marshall: “Dakota” (by Kelly Jones)
Day 3: Eliza Marshall: “The Rhythms of Migration”; Jon Wilks: “Greek Street”
Day 4: Martin Simpson: “Skydancers”
Day 5: Janice Burns and Jon Doran: “As I Roved Out”
Day 6: Kirsty Merryn: “The Larks They Sang Melodious (Pleasant and Delightful)”
Day 8 (breakfast!): Honey and the Bear with Toby Shaer: “Around the World”
Day 8 (evening): Megson: “And Finally”
Day 9: Sid Goldsmith and Danny Pedler of Tarren: “Sunk”
Day 10: Bird in the Belly: “Neighbours and Sisters”
Day 11: Katie Spencer:”The Edge of the Land”
Day 12: Knight and Spiers: “Halsway Schottische”
Day 13: Bella Hardy: ”Rhapsody on the Peak of Derbyshire”
Day 14: The Young Uns: “Three Dads Walking” and “John Ball”
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