Traditional songs can walk out in new stylings, and the Kronos Quartet have collaborated with four singers, arranging striking string settings for the voices. The result makes for a beautiful programme of folk music.

On this week's show Davey features a preview of who's playing at next years Womad festival

Celebrating NZ women who write and sing contemporary folk but with hints of jazz and lashings of country

On The Folk Music Hour Davey features The Singing Word Part 4 in a series of shows featuring folk songs made out of poetry set to music

More verse set to music, poems becoming immortal songs, including arguably the world's most famous folk song.

We continue our series investigating great songs which started life as poems.

We begin a series investigating what happens when poetry is set to music, becoming folk song. Subtitled Poems:Sung, we take our title from Barry Mitcalfe's seminal work on Māori poetry.

On This Week's Show Davey features inspirational folk that he is loving at the moment

Some fab artists are coming to NZ now and soon. We take a look and have a listen.

We celebrate the life and work of the founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers whose contribution to the revival of American vernacular music has been so important. The NY musician, photographer, filmmaker, collector and ethnomusicologist died recently, aged 87.