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FolkCast

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FolkCast episodes

  • FolkCast's Tribute To Pete Seeger: We Shall Overcome
    This week the world lost Pete Seeger, a true giant of the folk music scene. For seven decades, Pete was at the heart of American folk music and personifies protest music. Here, as a tribute to the great man, we at FolkCast have dipped into our archive to present an edition of our long-running Story Behind The Song feature, to showcase a song that was intimately tied to Pete Seeger throughout his long career.
    Originally aired in November 2011, here is FolkCast’s history man, Babba, with The Story Behind “We Shall Overcome”.
    For regular updates from the worlds of folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music, keep focused on FolkCast - at folkcast.co.uk. Search for FolkCast on Facebook and Twitter, and check out our blog at folkcasters.blogspot.co.uk
    FolkCast - it’s our finger in your ear!
    20 min
  • FolkCast 093 - February 2014
    The best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music from The UK and around the world.
    New year, new music - plus a pause for thought about the true nature of sacrifice.
    The Men With Strong Arms by The Men With Strong Arms
    from the album “Sunshine Street”
    We Won’t Go Home Tonight by Leatherat
    from the album “Snake Eyes”
    Not Peace, But A Sword by Robin Mitchell
    from the EP “Return”
    A Beggin’ I Will Go by Nigel Parry
    from the album “Row Out To Your Ship Of Dreams”
    Father’s Footsteps by Luke Jackson
    from the album “Fumes And Faith”
    A Precious Place by Patsy Reid
    from the album “The Brightest Path”
    Towards The Sun by Calum Stewart & Heikki Bourgault
    from the album “Hunter’s Moon”
    Drunken Sailor by Chris Ricketts
    from the album “Outward Bound”
    The Wicker Man by Damh The Bard
    single release
    Buain Ná Rainich (Fairy Love Song) by Eddi Reader
    from the album “Vagabond”
    Hate by Ian Roland
    from the EP “Helicopter”
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song: High Germany by Isambarde
    Room For Company by Brillig
    from the album “Comrades”
    Your Time Is Now by Ralf Dee
    from the album “Your Time Is Now”
    See the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 092 - December 2013
    An end-of-year special: more songs by some of the artists featured on FolkCast throughout 2013
    Presented and Produced by Phil Widdows
    Music:
    Marching Through The Green Grass by Lucy Ward
    Blackjack, Whiskey And Gin by Jenna
    Let’s Have A Drink by True Gents
    When A Knight Won His Spurs by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker
    Crudetés by Blanche Rowan and Mike Gulson
    We Shall Wear Midnight by Steeleye Span
    Flash Company by The Outside Track
    Ford O’ Kabul River by Blackbeard’s Tea Party
    Morecambe Bay by Union Jill
    Emerald Green by Merry Hell
    The Captain’s Daughter by The Longest Johns
    The Landlord’s Daughter by Fabian Holland
    The Landlord’s Daughter by Magnet and Paul Giovanni
    Coming Up For Air by Zeptepi
    For Peace And For Green by Helen Dorothy
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song
    The Boar’s Head Carol by Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band
    Canu Cwnsela / Pwnco by Allan Yn Y Fan
    Hymn For The New Year by Gavin Davenport
    For full details and links see the Shownotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast Selection Box 2013
    Music and poetry for the season of Winter, of Christmas & Yuletide.
    Presented by Babba - Produced by Phil Widdows - Readings by Phil Widdows
    Song For A New Beginning by Secret Garden, from the album Winter Poem
    …. with Winter Begins by Phil Widdows
    Winter Song by Anne Marie Almedal, from the album Memory Lane
    Winter Rose by Fairground Attraction, from the album The Very Best Of Fairground Attraction
    …. with Winter Bonus, a limerick…
    Cold Blow December Winds by Winter Wilson, from the album Cutting Free
    Wintersongs by Judy Dyble, from the album Flow And Change
    The Invisible Waltz by Howard Haigh, from the album Ride Forever and A Winter Snowscape by Martin Barre, from the album Stage Left
    …. with London Snow by Robert Bridges
    Bring Us In Good Ale by Maddy Prior And The Carnival Band, from the album A Christmas Caper
    The Company Makes The Feast by Kathryn and Bob Tickell, from the album Northumbrian Voices
    All In The Winter Time by Life And Times, from the album Charivari
    Christmas Bells by Bellowhead
    Gower Wassail by Blast From The Past, from the album A Victorian Christmas
    Wailey Wailer by Jim Causley, from the album Dumnonia
    The Holly & The Ivy by Kerfuffle, from the album Lighten The Dark
    Deck The Halls/Ding Dong by Andrews Massey Duo
    Wexford Carol by Gareth Davies-Jones, from the album Nine Lessons
    North Pole Express by Nick Lowe, from the album Quality Street
    I Believe In Father Christmas by Lisa Redford
    Canadian Christmas Song by Eric Bogle from the album The Dreamer
    That Sleigh by Steve Folk
    It’s This Time Of Year by Neils Cremer
    A Light Out Of The Dark by The Halstead Clan
    Advent Polka/Saint Nick’s Brawl by The Albion Christmas Band, from the album An Albion Christmas
    … with About Socks by Dr Seuss (take #61)
    Big Daddy C by Roy Mette
    We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Brian Brink, from the album Christmas In The Grove
    … with Another Spring by Patience Strong
    We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Bella Hardy, from the album Bright Morning Star
    For full details, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    Published December 11th 2013
    This is a FolkCast podcast. All original content is copyright FolkCast 2013 ©
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 091 - November 2013
    FolkCast 091 - November 2013
    Delights, surprises and new releases from the worlds of folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music, plus a journey into the catastrophic past of Old London Town in The Story Behind The Song, telling the tale of The Fire Of ’66.
    Robbing On The Highway by James Bell
    Wintersmith by Steeleye Span
    Katie Cruel by Salt House
    Burnwood by Moonrakers
    Eyes by Elliott Morris
    The Heart Of It All by The Speedbumps
    Don’t Feel The Same by Annie Dressner
    Who Killed JFK? by Tommy Sands
    Kennedy And The Warren Commission by Bill Hicks…
    New Deal by Gareth Davies-Jones
    Alien Forces by Monster Ceilidh Band
    Bushes And Briars by DJ Ualdemar
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song: Fire Of ’66 by Roy Mette
    I’m Going Now by Kevin Doherty
    Presented and produced by Phil Widdows
    For more details see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast Halloween Scream
    The FolkCast Halloween Scream 2013
    The Beast In The Attic
    A tale of terror illustrated with music and poetry
    Presented and produced by Phil Widdows
    A Time That Never Was… by Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks
    Souling Song by Kristen Lawrence
    It’s Halloween by Laura Warfield
    Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
    Ghost by Matt Stevens
    Introduction To Horror, presented by Arch Oboler
    Watching Ghosts by Helen Dorothy
    Graveyard by True Gents
    Along Destiny Road, a poem by Dave Alton
    with
    Dreaming Of Ditches by Hermione Harvestman
    The Bet by Show Of Hands
    O! Death by Sproatly Smith
    The Gravedigger by Jake Thackray
    The “Other Dance”… from Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett, read by Babba.
    The Dark Morris by Steeleye Span
    Seven Years Old by Sedayne
    ”Tis Now The Very Witching Time Of The Night”, from Hamlet, read by Richard Burton
    The Unquiet Grave by Moonrakers
    The Moonwraith by Bonfire Night
    Halloween Radio Broadcast by Bing Crosby and Lena Home
    Goetia AD72 by English Heretic
    Samhain Eve by Dahm The Bard
    Death Is Just A Dream by Ken Nicol
    See the ShowNotes at See the ShowNotes for full details at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 090 - October 2013
    New songs, old songs, pop songs as folk songs, songs about the weather and the Story Behind The Song. It's a rockin', riotous, rumbustious FolkCast show…!


    The Chemical Worker's Song by The Demon Barbers

    from their new, as yet unreleased, album


    Soul Traders Drum by Day Of The Rabblement

    from the album "Night Time Rallies"

    Bolinder by Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer


    from the album "Red House"

    Paint It Black/Devil In The Kitchen by Whalebone


    from the album "Runes"

    Road To Nowhere by The Bad Shepherds


    from the album "Mud, Blood & Beer"

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Red Hot Chilli Pipers


    from the album "Breathe"

    The Wind It Will Blow by Doug MacNearney


    from the album "Rambling Songs"

    The Wind Blows Around Them All by Beau


    from the album "Twelve Strings To The Beau"

    After The Rain by Zeptepi


    from the album "Coming Up For Air"

    Erin Farewell by McDermott's 2 Hours


    from the album "Anticlockwise"

    Waiting For The River by Merry Hell


    from the album "Head Full Of Magic, Shoes Full Of Rain"

    Roundabouts by Barricades Rise


    from the album "All I Have Is Here"

    South American Skies by Skylark Song


    to be released as a single on November 25th 2013

    The Mermaid by James Bell


    from the album "Joy & Jealousy"

    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song

    The life and times of Dr William Price - eccentric, nudist, enthusiastic lover, father to many, many children and the man who opened the door to the acceptance of cremation in Britain. The Song: Dr Price by Fabian Holland

    Rollin' Home by Roving Crows


    from the album "Deliberate Destractions"

    See the Shownotes for FolkCast 090 at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast Autumn Crackler 2013
    FolkCast Autumn Crackler 2013: a collection of songs and quotations for the season
    "Summer swift becomes memory,
    and autumn falls to the ground
    in a harvest of gold leaf and ripe berries,
    as the year rolls around
    And here is the FolkCast Crackler,
    a harvest of verse and of song,
    a salute to the season's quality
    as the year rolls along."
    The Boys Of Summer by Show Of Hands
    The Green Man by Roy Harper
    “Autumn -- that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness -- that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    September (Alternative Version) by Nick Cook
    Autumn by Paolo Nutini
    Brambles On A Hill by Ashley Hutchings
    “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ― George Eliot
    Gathering Summer In by Talis Kimberley
    “But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September. It stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favourite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.” ― Stephen King, Salem's Lot
    Fire At Midnight by Jethro Tull
    Sparkle Eyes by Gill Sandell
    "Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night." — Hal Borland
    Half The Way by Marco Catracchia
    “It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.” ― P.G. Wodehouse
    Paris In Spring by Mark Handley
    Mist In Autumn by FolkLaw
    Things Behind The Sun by Luluc
    “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
    We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” ― Humbert Wolfe
    Wind That Cracks The Leaves by In Gowan Ring
    Sycamore Tree by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker
    “October proved a riot; a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” ― Keith Donohue
    October by Tuung
    “The tints of autumn: a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier
    Autumn Snow by The Last Bison
    “Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild colour just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, & Learning the Hard Way
    A Leaf Must Fall (intro) by Prydwyn And Kira with Quickthorn
    Marigold by Maddy Prior
    “Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.” ― Daphne du Maurier, The Birds & Other Stories
    Migrating Bird by Anthony Thistlethwaite
    Remembrance Day by Mark Knopfler
    "November comes
    And November goes,
    With the last red berries
    And the first white snows.
    With night coming early,
    And dawn coming late,
    And ice in the bucket
    And frost by the gate.
    The fires burn
    And the kettles sing,
    And earth sinks to rest
    Until next spring."
    — Clyde Watson
    November by Steven Lindsay
    Strangers We Meet by The Black Feathers
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 089 - September 2013
    It's oh so quiet as we fill this month's show with folk, singer-songwriter and roots music from the chilled end of the scale. It's all low-key, laid back, and decidedly delicious, including an exclusive live session from our special guest, Sarah McQuaid.
    Music featured:
    To Make You Stay by Tinkerscuss
    from the album "The Best Of Tinkerscuss"
    Pretty Young Things by Becky Mills
    from the album "Dandelion"
    Money And Gold by Day Of The Rabblement
    from the album "Night Time Rallies"
    Church On Sunday by Jont
    from the album "Hello Halifax"
    The FolkCast Live Session
    The Sun Goes On Rising by Sarah McQuaid
    recorded live at MVS Sound, Preston
    The Private Still by Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer
    from the album "Red House"
    Sly Whispers by Jenna
    from the album "Hitchhiker"
    Sportsman's Hornpipe/Banks Of The Nile by Phillip Henry And Hannah Martin
    from the album "Mynd"
    The Story Behind The Song
    The tale of Mary Queen of Scots is told by Babba
    featuring Fotheringay by Fairport Convention
    Shipping Song by Lisa Knapp
    from the album "Hidden Seam"
    The FolkCast Live Session
    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Sarah McQuaid
    recorded live at MVS Sound, Preston
    The Last Place You Said Goodbye by Skylark Song
    Released as a double-A side single.
    Banks Of The Dee by Fabian Holland
    from the album "Fabian Holland"
    For full details see the Shownotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 088 - August 2013
    New sounds from the worlds of folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music. Excerpts from two very different musical journeys, a version of Raggle Taggle Gypsies like you've never heard before, and some music that's so chilled out it moves at just 1mph.
    Music featured:
    The Last Pirouette by Lucy Ward
    from the album "Single Flame"
    Overcome/Override by The Freedom/Guilt Equation
    from the album "Breathe"
    Gazing At The Stars All Night by Chris Flegg
    from the album "Gazing At The Stars All Night"
    Forlorn Land by Ange Hardy
    from the album "Bare Foot Folk"
    Vagabonds And Rogues by Tess Of The Circle
    from the album "Thorns"
    You Are On Beach by One Mile An Hour
    from the album "One Mile An Hour"
    Lady Maisery by Lady Maisery
    from the album "Mayday"
    The Border by Gill Sandell
    from the album "Light The Boats"
    Bird Above Snake Below by Jet McDonald
    from the album "Soft Soft Soft The Sparrow Sings"
    Raggle Taggle Reggae by Celtic Reggae Revolution
    from the album "Everything Comes To Those Who Wait"
    Ducks On The Roof by Whalebone
    from the album "Runes"
    Afraid Of Death by Between The Wars
    from the album "Won't Go Quietly"
    The Story Behind The Song
    The tale of King Richard III and Henry Tudor is told by Babba
    featuring Richard Of York by Lord Zarquon and The Legendary Ten Seconds
    Head Full Of Stars by Judy Dyble
    from the album "Flow And Change"
    Mud, Blood & Beer by The Bad Shepherds
    from the album "Mud, Blood & Beer"
    For full details see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min

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