This week’s Folk Show includes two tracks from the forthcoming album Stand Up Now: Songs from the Landworker’s Alliance. It’s a compilation featuring some great artists, including Ewan McClennan and The Norfolk Broads (featured in the show) and Nick Hart, Owen Shiers, Sid Goldsmith and Jimmy Aldridge and many more. This musical project has been initiated by the Landworkers’ Alliance, a union of small-scale and ecological farmers from all corners of the British Isles. The album is a compilation of fifteen songs about the land, farming and the struggle for a better world. Find out more here: www.landworkersalliance.org.uk.
Also featured are two tracks that nestle quite nicely in the middle of the mix. They are both from a new Reveal Records compilation and include Duncan Lloyd, who is one of the main songwriters and founding members of North East art-rock band Maximo Park and Withered Hand, with an early version of New Gods (feat. Pam Berry). The compilation, titled “Have You Heard?” is available via Bandcamp here: https://revealrecords.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-have-you-heard-reveal-records
Also featured is a track from the Brigid Mae Power‘s ‘Burning Your Light’ digital download that’s out 24th September alongside her upcoming UK & Ireland tour. A gorgeous new collection of covers that sees Brigid take on Songs: Ohia, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Patsy Cline, along with a reworking of Irish Ballad ‘May Morning Dew’ featured here.
Naragonia are a well known European folk duo, formed in 2003 by Pascale Rubens and Toon Van Mierlo. There’s no compromise to the music they make, which is free from all conventions. The track here is taken from their new release on TRAD Records titled ‘The Guesthouse Sessions’. Due to the unfiltered live recordings and the variety of the guest musicians, ‘The Guesthouse Sessions’ is different from their other studio albums. However, the duo are still loyal to their uncompromising pursuit of beauty and authenticity. A search that already counts 18 years of beautiful music which gave voice to Belgian folk in many parts of the world.
Dan Brown makes his debut release next month with Rewilding, on which he takes inspiration from the likes of Mike Vass and Dreamers Circus. Drawing heavily on the imagery of the Scottish rugged landscape, this debut is far from predictable, spanning different genres and calling on some of Scotland’s finest musicians, including fiddle player Laura Wilkie and saxophonist Matthew Carmichael whose album we recently reviewed here.
We also have another track from our Artist of the Month John Francis Flynn who we interviewed recently here and from Iorram, the latest offering from Aidan O’rourke and also one of our Featured Albums of the Month reviewed here. The show’s final song is from Rosa Zajac, taken from a Broadside Hacks compilation – a new collective derived from a group of like-minded musicians with a wild and lustrous curiosity for traditional, radical folk heritage. This is from a compilation released back in June titled Our Singing Tradition Vol. 1. They have a new compilation album coming soon titled ‘Songs Without Authors Vol.1’ on September 24th, from which we recently shared a duet from Rosa and Daragh Lynch of Lankum here.
Plus music from Skipper’s Alley, Salt House, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Martin Simpson, Lau and Emily Portman.
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Folk Show: Episode 100 – Music Played
Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke – Rana The Fortunate
Brigid Mae Power – May Morning Dew (Traditional)
The Norfolk Broads – Green Brooms
John Francis Flynn – Cannily, Cannily
Skipper’s Alley – Francie Manus Byrne’s/Bill The Weaver’s
Rónán Ó Snodaigh – Sliabh Gan Anam
Aidan O’Rourke – Iorram
Salt House – Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Joshua Burnside – Come My Little Son (England’s Motorway)
Duncan Lloyd – A Chime
Withered Hand – New Gods (Early Version) (Featuring Pam Berry)
Ewan McClennan – Rufford Park Poachers
Martin Simpson – The Bramble Briar
Lau – Toy Tigers (Unplugged Version)
Naragonia – Alio
Emily Portman – Fine Silica
Dan Brown – Greenside
Rosa Zajac – Skippin’ Barfit Through the Heather
Photo by Alex Gallacher (Shot on 35mm Kodak Film in Devon)