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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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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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Friday Aug 25, 2023
The Story of The Big Walk
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
On 4th August 2023, Folk on Foot host Matthew Bannister set off on his biggest walk yet: from Wickham Festival in Hampshire to Folk East in Suffolk. Over two weeks, he covered 186 miles, took 465,137 steps and raised thousands of pounds for the charity Help Musicians. Each evening, he was joined in the pub by some of the folk world’s finest musicians, who sang and played to revive his flagging spirits. This episode tells the inside story of the walk, using Matthew’s private audio diaries and highlights of the glorious music that carried him on his way.
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Johnny Campbell & Mikey Kenney on Whernside
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
This is our highest ever episode. We climbed to the top of Yorkshire’s tallest peak - Whernside - with the singer/songwriter Johnny Campbell and the fiddle player Mikey Kenney to help Johnny record a track for his forthcoming album “True North”. He’s recording each track at the summit of one of the highest peaks in the North of England. Along the way we discuss his passion for Northern folk music, his love of walking and his determination to campaign for a Right to Roam. It’s a big climb - but the view from the top is spectacular!
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Find out more about Johnny at https://johnnycampbell.co.uk/ and Mikey at https://mikeykenney.co.uk/
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Angeline Morrison in North Cornwall
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Angeline Morrison’s “The Sorrow Songs - Folk Songs of Black British Experience” was one of the most significant albums of recent times. On this walk near her home in North Cornwall, Angeline talks about her deep love for traditional music and her determination to chronicle in song the experiences of black Britons through history. By the grave of the master and slave who are buried together she sings “Slave No More” and on the beach where she first composed it, she performs “Unknown African Boy, (died 1830)”. There’s also time for a beautiful song in the Cornish language and her unaccompanied version of “Bushes and Briars”.
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Find out more about Angeline at https://www.angelinemorrisonmusic.com/
Friday May 19, 2023
James Yorkston and Nina Persson in Tentsmuir Forest
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
The Fife based singer/songwriter James Yorkston and the Cardigans lead singer Nina Persson teamed up with the Swedish Second Hand Orchestra to make the gorgeous album “The Great White Sea Eagle”. On this atmospheric walk through Tentsmuir Forest on the Scottish coast just north of St Andrews, James explains why he comes to the forest to find calm and space. Nina recalls her hectic time as a pop star in the 1990s and they share insights into their inspiration and creative process. Then their voices blend beautifully as they sing under the shade of the trees.
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Find out more about James and Nina at https://www.jamesyorkston.co.uk/
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Katherine Priddy at Alvechurch & Tanworth in Arden
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Katherine Priddy grew up in the village of Alvechurch in the West Midlands, writing songs as a teenager which eventually ended up on her beautiful debut album “The Eternal Rocks Beneath”. On a walk in the nearby countryside, she sings two of them before we move on to Tanworth in Arden where Nick Drake is buried. Katherine is part of a stellar line up of artists who’ve been invited to re-interpret Nick’s songs for a new album. By his grave she sings his compositions “They’re Leaving Me Behind” and “Cello Song”. It’s an emotional tribute from one young artist to another.
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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Amy-Jane Beer and Cynefin along the River Clettwr
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Why do rivers play such a vital role in our lives, culture and folklore? In this glorious episode, the nature writer Amy-Jane Beer, author of “The Flow”, joins the Welsh singer and songwriter Owen Shiers (also known as Cynefin) on a walk up the beautiful River Clettwr in Ceredigion. There are songs and stories aplenty and even a game of Pooh sticks.
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Find out more about Cynefin at https://cynefinmusic.wales/
Get hold of Amy's book at https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781472977397?gC=5a105e8b
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Freedom To Roam in the Malvern Hills
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Freedom To Roam is a music and multi-media project dreamed up by the flautist Eliza Marshall as a response to many of the pressing issues facing us right now. On this walk climbing the glorious Malvern Hills she is joined by Catrin Finch (harp), Andrew Morgan (percussion) Donal Rogers (piano, guitar and more) and Jackie Shave (violin) to share the exquisite music they’ve created to tell a story of migration, liberation and care for our planet.
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Friday Jan 13, 2023
Maddy Prior and Rose-Ellen Kemp at Stones Barn in Cumbria
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
“The snow it is lying on Bewcastle Fell
And the wind strips the skin from my face.
The bare bones of a tree give some shelter to me
But still it’s a draughty old place.”
Come to “the least populated area of the least populated county in England” and take shelter from the elements in the warm welcome of Stones Barn where Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span and her daughter Rose-Ellen Kemp are hosting one of their acclaimed singing weekends. Guest tutor Martin Carthy reveals how he discovered the joys of traditional singing when he was just seventeen years old – and Maddy and Rose-Ellen take us to Bewcastle Church to see the 6th Century cross commemorating St Cuthbert and sing in its glorious acoustic.
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Friday Dec 16, 2022
The Wexford Carols with Caitriona O’Leary
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
A festive episode featuring the Wexford Carols sung by the beautiful voice of Caitriona O’Leary. The carols came out of the persecution of Catholics in Wexford in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and were written by Bishop Luke Waddinge and Father William Devereux. Caitriona takes Matthew Bannister to the Franciscan church where Bishop Waddinge is buried and to St Aidan’s Cathedral in Enniscorthy where the area’s most famous carol was collected. We also meet the retired fisherman Dixie Devereux whose father sang the carols every Christmas for 62 years – and who is now passing on the tradition to his own son. A fascinating story with gorgeous music creating an atmospheric, seasonal experience.
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Find out more about The Wexford Carols at https://thewexfordcarols.com/