FolkCast

The first in a special series of podcasts featuring interviews recorded at the Great British Folk Festival 2012. We chat backstage to Ashley Hutchings and Simon Care of The Morris On Band, and Ashley's son Blair Dunlop on his solo career and work with the new Albion Band.

November is the month of memories. We pay tribute to the dead of all wars; Babba lights the fuse on the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot; and we remind you that the Great British Folk Festival is coming at the end of the month!

FolkCast 080 - November 2012 setlist.

Never A Soldier by Duncan McCrone

Born To Be A Soldier by Gary Cordice

Tommy by Peter Bellamy

King And Country by Seth Lakeman and The BBC Concert Orchestra

Coming Home by Show Of Hands

Fourteen Hundred Hours by Talis Kimberley

Huzzah! by Jamie Smith's Mabon

Roll Out The Black by Feral Mouth

Pretty Nancy Of Yarmouth by Feast Of Fiddles

The Lover's Ghost by Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party

Shining Morn by Gordon Giltrap

This Time by Merry Hell

The Story Behind The Song: An Honest Man by Carys & Rosemary (Babba tells the story of The Gunpowder Plot)

Loch Tay Boat Song by Amber Road

See the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk for full details and links

In this month-ending show for October 2012 there is a subtle mood of menace for the mysterious season, with strange tales of a modern woodland battle, of blazing bonfires, punch-ups with army recruiting parties, of deadly border raids and of a real life medical man who may not have been all he seemed...

Music in this show:

Bonfires by Garforth and Myers

Are We There Yet? by Hadrian's Union

Dance Around The Fire by The Halstead Clan

Crinkle Drive by Dodson And Fogg

Girl In A Room (remix) by Antiqcool

Arthur McBride/Graeme McDowell's by The Ralf Weirauch Trio

She Moved Through The Fair by Maeve Mackinnon

Willow Tree by Galley Beggar

A Quarter Hour Of Fame by The Albion Band

Doctor James by Gilmour & Roberts

Black Is The Colour by Blair Dunlop

Icy Shivers by Mulholland & Ward

The Raiders by Maddy Prior with Hannah James and Giles Lewin

For full details and links see http://www.folkcast.co.uk/ShowNotes/shownotes079.html

An exclusive interview with guitarist, composer, playwright, singer and songwriter (and regular FolkCast co-presenter) Ken Nicol on the release of his album Historic Events and other subjects. Phil Widdows chats to Ken about all the tracks on the album, and we hear excerpts of all of the songs and instrumentals:

10 Pound Poms

She's Walking

A Waltz With Alice

Demon Of The Well

Let The Wind Blow My Prayers

Old School Days

The Beautiful Truth

The Shot That Killed Three

The Complete Banker

A special show to mark the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, with a journey through Halloween to reach the approach of winter.

Sakonnet by Allysen Callery

Falling Leaves by Candidate

Copper, Russet And Gold by Ashley Hutchings and Ken Nicol

The Awe In Autumn by Tattie JamPoetry: Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar (read by Paul Adams)

Summer's Lament by Jamie Smith's Mabon

October Day's Therapy by Yvonne Lyon

October Song by Bert Jansch

Autumn Leaves by Mc2

Harvest Myth by SedayneLore - Poetry: Poem In October by Dylan Thomas, read by Richard Burton

Stags Bellow by Martha Tilston

Shades by Thursday's Child

Poetry: The Last Week In October by Thomas Hardy (read by Ghizela Rowe)

Halloween by The Coffinshakers

Reading: Warlock's Ride by Robert Walsh featuring Theme from Halloween by John Carpenter

A soalin' by Tony Provencher

Hallowe'en by Sangsters

Eynhallow Sound/The Halloween Flit by Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley - Poetry: The Pumpkin Tree by Robert Wrigley (read by the poet)

After Halloween by Stargazer

Welcome Cold November by Pig's Ear

November by Whalebone - Poetry: To Autumn by John Keats, read by Michael Stuhlbarg

Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

In this show we Think Local with a series of songs and tunes linked to various places around the British Isles. Also there is a preview of our interview with Ken Nicol talking about his new album, Historic Events And Other Subjects. The music is Byker Hill by Bellowhead - Kingsdale by The Moonbeams - Land Of Chalk And Clay by Beggar's Bridge - Da Full Rigged Ship by The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc - Kerry And Donegal Reels by Rochentune - Lady Montgomery by Session A9 - Hook by MacmasterHay - Mastiau Hen Longau by Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog - A Thousand Tongues by DeBorah - Silver And Gold by James J Turner - Evensong and Five Thousand Birds by Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim - After After by Ryan Ayers - Me And My Dark Companion by Declan Sinnot - Ten Pound Poms and The Demon Of The Well by Ken Nicol - Grey Bull and Wark Football Team by Kathryn Tickell

There is a watery theme running through this show with stories of riverboat romance, epic journeys, trawling, sailing, angling and privateering. Back on dry land there are circuses, lost loves, cursed singers, a hanged man and a battle royal between the devil and a she-monster! Who dares to say that folk music is boring? The music - The Greatest Show On Earth by Green Diesel - Gave You A Thought by Steel Threads - The Pinery Boy by The Emperors Of Wyoming - The Ballad Of The First Fleet by Between The Wars - The Trawling Trade by James Findlay - Harbour Voice by The Young'Uns - Adieu Adieu by The Village Quire - The Devil And The Ploughman by Kim Lowings and The Greenwood - 10,000 Miles Away by Bellowhead - Hold On To Me by Balthazer and The Beatitudes - The Thompson Family Singers And I by Jess Morgan - Story Behind The Song: Drake by Show Of Hands - Privateering by Mark Knopfler - More Than Boys by Luke Jackson.

A soundtrack for the summer, sizzling with specially selected songs of the season - there is sun, there are good times, there are warm nights ... and a little summer rain. Music: 01 Now Welcome Summer by Malthouse Passage - 02 Til The English Summer's Done by Ken Nicol - 03 Days Like Today by Duncan McCrone - 04 The Summer Shower by Tattie Jam - 05 I Love The Sun by Jon Redfern - 06 Summer On The L by Lisa Redford - 07 Summer Town by Pete Bennett - 08 Run To The Sun by Leatherat - 09 Ode To The Summer by Syd Arthur - 10 Greek Lightning by Bob Fox - 11 Suntrap by Show Of Hands - 12 Sun Goes On Rising by Sarah McQuaid - 13 Under Their Breath by Jon Boden - 14 My Back Garden by The Moonbeams - 15 After Summer Rain by Steve Tilston - 16 Midsummer Blue by Liz Law & Terry Conway - 17 Summer Sun by Folklaw - 18 Red Rose Summer by Big Al Whittle - 19 The Midst Of Summertime by Merrymouth - 20 Night Falls On Summer's End by The Owl Service - 21 Summer's End by Jackie Oates - 22 And Summer Slips Away by Goldenlikethesun.

(This is a REVISED version to correct an audio problem. Please delete any previous version you may have downloaded)... Sibling rivalry, deceit, murder, mutilation … plus magical music and a weather forecast! Witchcraft and murder from 400 years ago provide the backdrop to this show as we set the controls of the FolkCast time machine for 1612 to hear Old Pendle from Seat Of The Pants, plus witchy offerings from poet Dave Alton - featuring Sedayne - and from Steeleye Span. Plus new music from: The Sea Kings - Joy Dunlop and Twelfth Day - The Rachel Hair Trio - Georgia Ruth - Riotous Assembly - Naymedici - The Roughneck Riot - Ewan McLennan - Damian Clarke - Fifteen Days - Sid Wright - Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman.

The All-Request Special! Phil mixes together a show full of the latest folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots-based music, as requested by an odd bunch of listeners. Music from: Leatherat - Nigel Brown - Bella Hardy - Luke Jackson - Simon Fowler - The Imagined Village - Arnwyn - David Harbottle and The Friendly Cats - Blackwing - Alan Reid and Rob van Sante - Riotous Assembly - Peter Nardini - Mike and Ruthy - Fling - Al Stewart - Liz Law and Terry Conway - Skerryvore. This month's Story Behind The Song from Babba tells the bloody tale of Charlotte Corday.