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So here we go with another wonderful line-up this month.We have a gorgeous live performance from Cara Dillon at the Grand Opera House in Belfast.
Plus there's music from Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage, from Griffin, The Wandering Hearts, Martin Simpson and Scaryvore.Lucy has all the gig and album news and I'll be telling you about the next episode of Folk on Foot which features glassblowing
Yes, it's true.But let's kick off with some fine Orcadian musicianship as Nos play the track Christine's, which is named after Conor's Auntie Christine. Here's the first chart countdown.At 40, Bryn Terfel's Sea Songs.
At 39, Cloud Horizons from Catherine Tickell and the Darkling.At 38, Catherine Williams and Withered Hand present Wilson Williams.At 37, Nos re-enter the chart with Stretching Skywards.At 36, Rachel Simani and Dreamer Awake.
At 35, Sam Carter's Silver Horizon.At 34, a new entry from Griffin with Griffin Live, A Sonic Tonic.We'll hear a track in a moment.At 33, John Smith and The Living Kind.At 32, The Light Fantastic from John Branwell.
And at 31, Thea Gilmore's self-titled album. But back to that new entry at number 34 from Griffin.They've been purveying their eclectic blend of medieval music and folk rock since 1972, and three of the founder members are still going strong.
But with the addition of some new recruits, they've now released their first ever live album, A Sonic Tonic.Here's a taste of it as they play Kemp's jig at the Met in Bury.One, two, three, four.
Apparently, they use some 40 instruments in every show, ranging from crumb horns, bassoons and recorders, to guitars, violins and percussion.Griffin are new at 34 with their live album, A Sonic Tonic.The film was by Trevor Cottrell.
Here's the next chart countdown.At 30, Daisy Rickman's Howl is a re-entry.At 29, Landless with Lurek.At 28, John Francis Flynn's Look Over the Wall, See the Sky is up 11 places.
At 27, various artists celebrating the songs of Nick Drake in the Endless Coloured Ways. At 26, a new entry from Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage, In The Dart We Grow.We'll hear from them in a moment.At 25, The Wandering Hearts and Mother.
At 24, Sam Lee's Song Dreaming.At 23, Grace Petrie urging us to build something better.At 22, Serum from Oxen.And at 21, The Longest Johns and Voyage. Back to that new entry at 26 from Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage.
They spent a year touring with Fairport Convention and jamming with them and they took that spirit of collaboration into the making of their new album In The Dark We Grow.Here's a beautiful track called The Youngest Sailor.
To board the ship alone Kind friends and family I have none I've gone to sail the ocean To see how the wind blows
There's a girl in my homeland Died in one civil line But I failed to blend her good charms So when I return With stories, muscles, jewels and gold
Sail on... Sail on... Sail on... Sail on... Oh, sail on, sail on, sail on Oh, sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage with the youngest sailor from In The Dark We Grow, their album which is new in the chart at 26.
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But now let's get all the latest gig and album news from Lucy Shields of The Folk Forecast.Lucy, what have you got for us this month?
So there's lots to look forward to.First of all, Hartlepool Folk Festival is coming up this weekend from the 4th to the 6th of October.
They've got an amazing lineup, Kate Rusby, Lady Masery, Peggy Seeger, Catherine Takao and the Darkening, the Wilsons, the Breath. Frankie Archer, and loads more.
And I always really like the fact that they have lots of things that are just a little bit different as well.They do a panel game called Nevermind the Band Dogs, which I really like.
It's just a bit of silliness and all sorts of like quirky one-off things that you wouldn't get at any other festival.So that's a really lovely one to go to.Also, Bellowhead, of course, are heading out on tour in November.
Lots of their dates have already sold out, of course, but there are a few tickets left at some venues.So really looking forward to that.
Yes, I've got my tickets.
Yes, luckily I have as well.
I booked about six years ago.It feels like that anyway.
Yeah, it does feel a long time.And then another one I'm really looking forward to is Heel and Harrow at King's Place.So it's a fantastic project from Rachel Newton and Lauren McCall.It's all about the Scottish witch trials.
And I loved the album when it came out, but I haven't seen them live.And I think chances to see them live are quite few and far between.So really looking forward to seeing them. at King's Place in October as well.
And then lots of folk on foot artists out on tour.
There are, yes.We've got Sarah Smelt for anyone who enjoyed her recent episode of Folk on Foot.There are lots of chances to catch her, including Skipton, Penrith, Stamford, Kingsland and Darlington.
Frankie Archer is heading out far and wide, everywhere from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Peebles, down to London, Brighton and lots more.And of course, Newcastle.She's got to do a home date for us as well.
Angeline Morrison has got a few dates with Clark Camilleri. So lots of chances to catch her as well.
And then John Bowden and the Remnant Kings, they're touring the new album Parlor Ballads before some of them, of course, head off on the Bellowhead tour.And then also some of the ones I mentioned last month as well.
So Steve Knightley, Cara Dillon, Katie Spencer, Jackie Oates, Gig Spanner Big Band, Afro Celt Sound System, the Ryangan Sisters and lots more.
Right.Wonderful.And what about online?Any of the online gigs coming to the fore now?
Yes, we're sort of getting into the swing of things.So myself and everyone I work with at Live to Your Living Room, we've been busy behind the scenes.So we've got lots coming up in October.Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman on the 8th of October.
So lots of people, of course, will know Mark from the folk show on BBC Radio 2, but he also has a duo with David Boardman.So really looking forward to that.Sally Barker on the 11th of October.
You might know her from The Pusies or even from The Voice, which she was a finalist on as well. 18th October we've got Rachel McShane and the Cartographers who of course is from Bellowhead as well.
24th October we've got Marilla Holmes who's based in Sheffield but comes all the way from Australia.25th October Sam Carter is touring his new album Silver Horizon which has been in the chart.
31st October we've got CulverAche, which is a new harmony trio with Matt Quinn, Seb Stone and Lizzie Hardingham.And if you can't make any of those live, we've also got their own catch up as well for three days.
Then over at Rosslyn Court in Margate, they're still live streaming lots of their gigs.They've got on the 3rd of October, Coen Braithwaite Kill Coin.On the 17th
They've got Angeline Morrison and Clark Camilleri on the 31st, Gilmore and Roberts, and lots more coming up in November as well.
Wonderful.Sounds brilliant.What about album releases?
So just at the end of September, we've had Kate Young has just released Oompa Loompa.Kate is an incredibly innovative artist.It's really great to have some new music from her.It was recorded in Northumberland with a string quartet.
And as you might expect with Kate's music, it kind of crosses the boundaries between genres.So it's sort of a crossing the gaps between chamber folk, pop, world music, and it's just very contemporary.
Every song on the album is also connected with herbs or flowers and their ancient uses in folklore.So it's really interesting on that one.4th of October, Steve Knightley is releasing The Winter Yards.
It's his first studio album, solo studio album in 17 years, but he is joined by lots of his long-term collaborators.So he's not completely on his own on the album.
show of hands partner in crime Phil Beer, Philip Henry from Edgelarks, Track Dogs, Johnny Calci and lots more are making an appearance on the album and he's got a 29 date tour coming up as well so lots of chances to see him playing all this music live as well.
Then 4th of October, we've got Mary Arad Green and Rachel Newton are releasing Anaban.So they're cousins actually, and their great-great-grandmother was known as Anaban.
And she was one of a group of young women who were at the forefront of the Koygac resistance during the highland clearances.
And they've always known about this story, but I think they'd heard recently about a sculpture being commissioned to honor these women. And they were inspired to get together and make music that celebrates that history and celebrating those women.
So that's a really interesting one as well.Really fascinating history.
Absolutely fascinating albums to listen to.Lucy, wonderful to hear about those.Thank you very much indeed.And we'll see you again next month.
It's a long way down, barely treading water.Trying to catch my breath, I'm out of my depth.Holding on to bricks, you can't get much colder.Watching these four walls. I went down to the river to cry.I went down to the river to cry.
How do I let you go when you're all I've ever known?I went down to the river to cry.I went down to the river, down to the river to cry. left in my head.And the light goes on.Everything is changing with these ocean tides burning my eyes.
How do I let you go when you're all I've ever known?I went down to the river to cry.I went down to the river to cry. I went down to the river to cry I went down to the river to cry There's no easy way to say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Never will you see me cry.There's no easy way to say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Gorgeous harmonies of The Wandering Hearts with River to Cry.Their album Mother is up seven places to number 25 in this month's chart. counting down from 20 to 11.At 20, Bernard Butler and Good Grief.At 19, Kingfisher, Alive from Dublin.
At 18, Taper with The Pilgrim, Their God and The King of My Decrepit Mountain.At 17, Martin Simpson with Skydancers.At 16, Cara Dillon's Coming Home.We'll hear from both of them in a moment.At 15, Kleptocracy from Ferocious Dog.
At 14, This is the Kit and Careful of Your Keepers. At 13, Beauty in Your Wake from Fink.At 12, Lancum Live in Dublin.And at 11, The Staves with All Now.Great to see our old friend Martin Simpson heading back up the chart this month.
So we thought we'd take the chance to share with you again the title track of his album Sky Dancers and once again to revel in the beautiful dancing of the ballet folk artist Anna Smith.
Bright bedstraw constellations shine among the budding heather and ling And the jade green berry bushes, the oak eggers are on the wing
The stone chats and the pippets fly And spring lap wings and curlews cry But there is something missing There are no dancers in disguise And the bird completes the skyline That is clear to see An empty sky is a heartbreak So what is it to be?
A lush grey sky dancer or this wasteful cruelty?
At fifteen I saw the falcon fly At Simmons Yacht on the River Wye Scarce and unexpected then Red treasure in the sky In Mid Wales fifty years ago The red kite's beauty lit the snow Now I might see them every day Falcon on the city cliffs Red kites by the motorway
And the bird completes the skyline, that is clear to see An empty sky is a heartbreak, so what is it to be?A pearly ring-tailed harrier, or this shooting gallery?
Now the heathland it is burning Up above the valley towns The greedy flames consume the peat So when the rains come down They pour across the moorland's wreck And overwhelms the stream and beck Burst the banks of stream and beck And floods the town again
And the bird completes the skyline, that is clear to see An empty sky is a heartbreak, so what is it to be?This life-supporting landscape or this brutal tyranny?
And a bird completes the skyline that is clear to see An empty sky's heart breaks up, what is it to be?The pale ash-grey sky dancer or this wasteful crew?
Absolutely gorgeous.Martin Simpson's Skydancers is up three places to 17 in this month's chart.But now let me tell you about the next episode of Folk on Foot which is out on Friday October the 11th.
It's a remarkable walk around the West Midlands town of Stourbridge with the singer and songwriter Dan Whitehouse.
For 400 years, Stourbridge was a major centre of glassmaking in the UK, and Dan made an album called Voices from the Cones, based on the memories of glassworkers.
For our episode, he takes me to a college in a former glassworks, where glassblowing is one of the craft skills taught to neurodivergent students.He sings the songs inspired by the glassworkers, and even arranged for me to have a go at glassblowing.
Here's a taste of what happened.
And as a young lad, we were sent down the road to the pig or the fish for the bill.I carry it back up and put it down to one of the seniors said, son, get in. You've been drinking out of that?"I said, I have.He said, you have.
And the next time he sent me down to the pub I lined up them bottles on the wall and I had a sip from this and a sip from that.A little bit of foam before the beer goes flat.A sip from this and a sip from that.Pots set in, such a sweaty task.
Free workers beer.There's common sense in that. Until the health and safety went mad.Free bed.
Mind the glass, that's Dan Whitehouse in Stourbridge, the next episode of Folk on Foot out on Friday, October the 11th.Subscribe or follow us in your podcast app so you don't miss it.And Dan's playing some gigs this week.
Tomorrow, he's at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, on Thursday at the Rope Walk in Barton-upon-Humber, and on Friday at the Finnish Church in Rotherhithe in London.So do go and see him if you can.
And talking of live performance, we have a spine-tingling one to share with you now. It comes from Cara Dillon, whose album of poetry and music, Coming Home, is up ten places in this month's chart.
Here she is at the Grand Opera House in Belfast with Clear the Path.
Clear the path now.Weeds have gathered on our ancestral trail.Singers of songs long gone.Poets, storytellers, artists, weavers.Give in now and surrender to them.Those from whom you came.The long lines coursing through your veins.
Come on and fan the flames and concentrate For it's written on your son's face That light shining through, blazing In a moment of grace
We are the daughters of women that we will become The trailblazers whose lives will never be done For they stood on this self-same soil Buried the seeds that germinated, birthed and fed A new generation of tiny intricacies Forgotten family traits Hidden eyes and taunts That reveal themselves like the strangest
Speak of them, search for them, for they are true.Speak of them, search for them, for they hold you.
We are the daughters of woman we will become Bruises can never be done
Isn't she absolutely amazing?All the way from the south of France,
Cara Dillon's amazing performance of Clear The Path at the Grand Opera House in Belfast.Well, we're into the top 10 now, and at 10, Linda Thompson's Proxy Music.
♪ I had a voice clear and true ♪ ♪ I chided and scolded and lied about you ♪ ♪ Never held my wicked tongue ♪ ♪ And now that voice is gone ♪
At nine, Catherine Pretty and The Pendulum Swing. Then at eight, up two places, are Skerryvore with Tempus.Here they are at the beach with Together Again.
Hey, how you doing?How's life been treating you?It's been so long since we've all been together now. And I know we took it all for granted The sweetest love is always there for you Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Love is the sweetest thing
Oh, the sweetest thing.And I'll be back with you someday, and life will move on like we were never away.It's been real tough, but we're making it up together, together, together again.I'll be back with you someday, and life
It's been real tough, but we're making it up. Hey, how you doing?Has the world brought you something new?
A little light casting shadows away from you Even though we took it all for granted The sweetest love is always there for you Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Love is the sweetest thing
The sweetest thing and I'll be back with you someday And life will move on like we will everywhere It's been real tough but we're making it up Together, together, together again I'll be back with you someday And life will move on like we will everywhere
But we're making it up Together, together, together The sweetest night.
Skerrivor are at number eight with Tempus.At seven we have the Tumbling Paddies with The Journey So Far Live.
I guess that I'm a dreamer, but I'm a great believer.What's meant to be the place will never pass you by.I'll get to where I'm going.
But foresters don't know it What's written in the stars As I'm blessed to leave the bar Spend the weekends over drinkin' Mondays over thinkin' Will I find a better plan?But I try my best and I, I try It's just the way I am
At six, the fisherman's friends say, all aboard.
I wish I was a cabin boy aboard a man o' war.Sam's gone away aboard a man o' war.I wish I was a cabin boy aboard a man o' war.Sam's gone away aboard a man o' war.Pretty work, brave boys, pretty work, they say.Sam's gone away aboard a man o' war.
At five, Ship to Shore from Richard Thompson.
Another day without a dream, without a hope, without a scheme.Another day to find you crawling on your knees.You raise your face up to the sun, you blow a kiss to Kingdom Come.You say goodbye to everyone that made you freeze.
At four, The Merry Wallopers with Irish Rock and Roll.Well, don't blame the idler who sits on the corner.
Sits on a corner, a cup in their hand.
But blame the idler who owns the apartments Built by his cronies on ex-public lands At three, Johnny Flynn and Robert McFarlane with The Moon Also Rises We all got lost in the uncanny valley Took the wrong turn at the end of the alley No one had a map and no one kept alley In the uncanny valley, no one kept alley Oh, we slipped through the rail On a grass and a tree
The two Beth Gibbons and Lives Outgrown And still at number one, Miles Smith and You Promised a Lifetime. But that's all for this month.
Don't forget the new glass-blowing episode of Folk on Foot with Dan Whitehouse in Stourbridge, coming your way on Friday, October the 11th.
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