The Folk Music Hour

By David Calder

David Calder presents the music he loves in The Folk Music Hour, with the aim of rekindling listeners' interest in acoustic music in the Anglo-American tradition, including NZ folk song, and world fol... more

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How many episodes does The Folk Music Hour have?

The podcast currently has 467 episodes available.

The Folk Music Hour episodes:

November 25, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 24-11-2024 Songs of the Sea
The seafarer's life has inspired a vast repertoire of folk songs.
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1h
November 18, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 17-11-2024 Folk Fusion
Setting fine musicianship to a beat is being called Folk Fusion, and Celtic sounds work superbly.
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1h
November 11, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 10-11-2024 Five Hundred
A celebration of the 500th Folk Music Hour includes some of David's favourites
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58min
November 04, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 03-11-2024 Farewells
A playlist of goodbye songs, of which there are many, some even promising a return.
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1h
October 29, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 27-10-2024 Folk Genres
The desire to classify kinds of music has ocurred in Folk, too
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58min
October 21, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 20-10-2024 Mixtape 17
A new world tour sharing folk music that includes tracks sent in by listeners
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59min
October 14, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 13-10-2024 Our Celtic Roots
So many of us have bloodlines that go back to the ancient Celtic peoples of Eurasia. That’s why we love Celtic music.
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59min
October 07, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 06-10-2024 Pick
Humans soon learn to hold something hard but flexible to get the best out of their stringed instruments. The 6th in our series Instruments of Folk.
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59min
September 29, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 29-09-2024 Bow
Our Instruments of Folk series resumes. After plucking strings to make folk music, some clever person invented a bow to draw across the strings.
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55min
September 29, 2024 The Folk Music Hour 29-09-2024 Bow
Our Instruments of Folk series resumes. After plucking strings to make folk music, some clever person invented a bow to draw across the strings.
...more
55min

FAQs about The Folk Music Hour:

How many episodes does The Folk Music Hour have?

The podcast currently has 467 episodes available.