The Festive Selection Box from FolkCast: Recent Episodes
Phil Widdows
A special seasonal feed directly to the Festive Selection Box editions of the FolkCast podcast. Here you will find the annual collections of some of the best independent music, plus poems, readings and comedy celebrating the seasons of Winter, Christmas, Yule, Hannukkah and the New Year. The Selection Box podcasts are in the form of a complete show, with music mixing from track to track, with no DJ chat. Burn it to CD or listen on your MP3 player, and have a great holiday season. For a full tracklisting of all the music, see the individual ShowNotes at http://www.folkcast.co.uk/ShowNotes/seasonalindex.html
The Selection Box 2018: Our latest collection of music, old and new, for Christmas.
Music by: Cara Dillon - Gregory Fish - Folk On - The Christmas Jug Band - Hidden Xmas Deluxe - Jimmy Lee Morris - The Legendary Ten Seconds - Lew Bear - Rebecca Loebe & Findlay Napier - The Andrews Sisters - Norm Adams & Julia Robertson - JD McPherson - Songwriterz - The Gathering Tide - Duke Robillard - The Grizzly Folk - The Staves - Yvonne Lyon - Morecambe & Wise - Rum Ragged - Crofts Family - Jennifer Cutting’s Ocean Orchestra - Kurt Lewis Neufer - Keston Cobblers Club - The Black Dyke Band. Guest appearances by: Garrison Keillor - David Nixon
FolkCast: the podcast that brings you the worlds of folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music. THIS EDITION: A marvellously magical mix of music for a merry Christmas and a cool Yule! FolkCast is produced and presented by 'Folkie' Phil Widdows Music featured: IT'S ONLY CHRISTMAS TIME
by Kludo White
from the album “The Christmas Album” (2012)
WINTER ECLIPSE
by Beta Radio
from the album “The Songs The Season Brings Vol 1-4” (2015)
CHRISTMAS LITE
by Milton Hide
Single release (2017)
The Biggest Santa Claus Of All…
1950s Radio Advertisement
TOO MANY SANTAS
by Maxwell, Miranda, Parsley
from the album “Catskill Christmas” (2016)
CHRISTMAS IS CALLING
by Julia P
Single release (2017)
“Eggnog! Certainly!”
An excerpt from Christmas Eve (1986)
A BIT OF MAGIC
by Daniel Nestlerode
Single release
I WATCH THE SNOW
by Daria Kulesh
from the EP “Vasilisa” (2017)
TO THE ANGELS OUT THERE
by Rebecca Hosking
Single release (2017)
“I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess…”
An excerpt from A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
HERE COMES CHRISTMAS
by Davidson/MacFarlane
Single release (2015)
I DON’T WANT AN IPAD… (I JUST WANT WORLD PEACE)
by Skinner & T’Witch
Single release (2017)
MIDNIGHT MASS, CHRISTMAS EVE
by The Citizen (aka Ken O’Duffy)
Single release (2017)
IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME
by Jimmy Lee Morris
Single release (2017)
Christmas Day In The Workhouse
recited by Ed Asner
An excerpt from “The Gathering” (1977
CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING
by Canny Fettle
from the album “Still Gannin' Canny” (2016)
“I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year!”
Sir Seymour Hicks
An excerpt from Scrooge (1935)
CHRISTMAS MORNING / SCROOGE’S CHANGE OF HEART
by GreenMatthews
from the album “A Christmas Carol - A Folk Opera”
THOUGHT OF SNOW
by Neil Thomson and Gerry Cambridge
from the album "Shore Crab" (2016)
AND IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN
by Rich Krueger
Single release (2017)
SNOW
by Sleeping At Last
from the album “Christmas Collection Vol 1” (2017)
SEASON’S BRIGHT
by Robert Land and Emily Ewing
Single release (2017)
It's O! To Be In Devon At The Merry Christmas Time /
CHRISTMAS BELLS
by Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll
from the album “The Songs Of Edward Capern” (2017)
"Hello, Bedford Falls! Merry Christmas!"
An excerpt from It's A Wonderful Life (1947).mp3
DOWN AT THE BILLET ON BOXING DAY
by The Stoned Cherries
from the album “Baked In A Pie” (2017)
PIPER AT CAPHEATON
by Devils Water
from the album “Treading The Marches” (2017)
THE BOAR'S HEAD
by KIVA
from the album "Yuletide" (2014)
DECK THE HALLS
by Andrews Massey Duo
from the album “Make Merry” (2013)
“If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's!”
An excerpt from Die Hard (1988)
For full details see the Shownotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
Music, poetry and fun for a very merry Christmas and a blessed Yule!
The Christmas Goose
by Kate Rusby
From the album "The Frost Is All Over" (2015)
"Johnny's Christmas Guitar"
with Johnny Cash
from The Johnny Cash & Family Christmas TV Show (1977)
Sleigh Ride
by Sam Bush
from the album "Christmas Roots" (2013)
Standing By My Christmas Tree
by Cara Dillon
from the album "Upon A Winter's Night" (2016)
The Winter Song
by Skinner And T'Witch
single release (2016)
Infinite Space
by Eddie & Luc
from the album "Tirade" (2016)
with
"A Christmas Poem"
written and read by Jim Thielen
Christmas Pudding
by Greg Trafidlo
from the album "Folk Singular" (2005)
"Have you ever seen a million dollars?"
Judge Reinhold and Eric Lloyd
from "The Santa Clause" (1994)
The Secret Tree Of Gotham
by Hicks & Goulbourn
from the album "Immortal" (2016)
Pass The Bottle (A Christmas Song)
by Jethro Tull
single release (2016)
"Santa's Little Helper"
Julie Andrews and Peter Ustinov
from "Julie's Christmas TV Special" (1973)
The Oak King Rises (Live)
by Wood, Wire & Words
FolkCast exclusive (2016)
"Christmas"
by John Betjeman, read by Robert Donat
with
Carol Medley
by Ken Nicol
from the album "Tidings" (1991)
Rejoice (O Come Emmanuel)
by Eddy Mann
single release (2016)
"It's Christmas Eve…"
Bill Murray
from "Scrooged" (1988)
There's Magic In Christmas Eve
by The Changing Room
from the EP "The Magic Of Christmas" (2016)
The World Falls In Love
by The Houghton Weavers
from the album "Christmas In Lancashire" (2016)
"December"
by Dollie Radford
Reading courtesy of Classic Poetry Aloud
with
The Holly And The Ivy
by Andrews Massey Duo
from the album "Make Merry" (2013)
The Magic Christmas Tree
by Pilgrim's Way
from the EP "Shining Gently All Around" (2011)
A Winter's Tale
by The Magnets
from the album "Christmas - The Collection" (2011)
"A Christmas Surprise…"
with The Muppets
from "Muppet Family Christmas TV Special" (1987)
#1 Record For Christmas
by Neil Diamond
from the album "Acoustic Christmas" (2016)
The Snowman's Song
by Simon Mayor & Hilary James
from the Musical Mystery Tour albums (2016)
"Snow for Christmas…"
Gracie Burns and Peter Brocco
from "Burns and Allen: Company for Christmas" (1955)
Come Mad Boys
by Telynor
from the album "Off The Beaten Track" (1992)
The Quantock Carol
by Ange Hardy
from the EP "The Quantock Carol & Mary's Robin" (2016)
By The Fireside
by Ellen And The Escapades
single release (2012)
"None of us are as young as we look these days…"
Bing Crosby and David Bowie
from "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas" (1977)
Christmas Day
by Johnnyswim
from the album "A Johnnyswim Christmas" (2014)
"Goodbye…"
Julie Andrews
from "The Sound Of Christmas TV Special" (1987)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / The Official Brawle
by Joshua Burnell
single release (2016)
For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
A celebration and contemplation for the darkest season. Produced and presented by 'Folkie' Phil Widdows Hide! The Storm Is Coming
by Heg & The Wolf Chorus
from the album "Raising The Fires" (2016)
Verses (Tho Winter Comes Dreary)
by Gordon Tyrrall
from the album "A Distance From The Town" (2000)
When Winter Rides In
by Pete Shirley
from the album "Sunset Katy And 0ther Stories"(2015)
Wait For The Storm
by Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate
from the album "Invisible" (2011)
Turning Into Winter
by Jack The Lad
from the album "It's Jack The Lad" (1973)
When The Last Leaf Falls
by The Bills
from the album "Trail Of Tales" (20160
Coming Home
by K.P. Devlin
from the album "Violescent" (2014)
The Houses Of Winter
by Peter Mayer
from the album "Midwinter" (2005)
For Winter
by Pilgrim
from the EP "For Winter" (2016)
Reading: "Winter Nightfall"
by Robert Bridges
This recording is used with the permission of Classic Poetry Aloud : giving voice to the classic poetry of the past.
December
by Skippinish
from the EP "Three Latest Hits" (2015)
Same Thing Every Year
by Paul Davy
from the album "Better Late" (2015)
The Coming Winter
by Krista Detor
from the album "Barely" (2015)
How Cold The Winter
by Ida Wenøe
from the album "Time Of Ghosts" (2015)
Reading: "A Scottish Winter"
by Gavin Douglas, read by John Laurie
from the album "Poetry And Music For Winter" (2011)
Long Shadows
by Maddy Prior
from the album "Year" (2009)
Reading: Mousehole Tom
by Phil Widdows
Tom Bawcock's Eve
by Richard Trethewey
from the album "Dig Where You Stand" (2012)
To The Coast
by Gren Bartley
from the album "Songs To Scythe Back The Overgrown" (2012)
Season III: The Winter Of Life
by Lady Maisery
from the album "Cycle" (2016)
The Month Of January
by Mary McPartlan
from the album "From Mountain To Mountain" (2016)
Cold Winds Blow
by Broom Bezzums
from the album "No Smaller Than The World" (2015)
Coppicing Song
by Hannah James
from the album "Jigdoll" (2016)
Long Cold Winter
by Kingfisher Blue
from the album "Til The Pond Freezes Over" (2016)
For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
FolkCast: the podcast that brings you the best from the Folkosphere Welcome to FolkCast’s Autumn Crackler for 2016. In just under 80 minutes we’ll follow the harvest, collect wild mushrooms and visit the standing stones. We’ll celebrate All Hallow’s Eve and Bonfire Night, and join Thanksgiving. So come on, bring a basket and we’ll gather the season’s bounty in song! Presented and produced by Phil Widdows
Harvest Home
by Spiral Dance
from the album "The Quickening" (2006)
All Among The Barley
by Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
from the album “Shadows & Half Light” (2008)
“Killing The Corn Spirit”
from The Golden Bough by Sir James Frazer
read by “hefyd” for Librivox.org
John Barleycorn
by Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy & Paul Weller
from the album "The Imagined Village" (2007)
King Harvest
by Dave Pegg & PJ Wright
from the album “Galileo's Apology” (2006)
Imperceptible
by Locomotive Ghost
from the album "Seasons" (2014)
Mysterious Mushroom Hunter
by Radim Zenkl
from the album "Strings & Wings" (2005)
with
“Mushrooms”
written by Margaret Atwood
Fall
by Mind Of Max
from the album "Seasons" (2013)
La Prima Volta
by Scott McWatt
from the album “A Ceíst Amá” (2013)
The First Leaf Of Autumn
by Michael Chapman
from the album "Wrecked Again" (1972)
Autumn Song (excerpt)
by Magna Carta
from "Tomorrow Never Comes - The Anthology" (2012)
Wild, Wild Berries
by Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman
from the album "Unity" (2010)
To The Stones
by Ninebarrow
from the album “Releasing The Leaves” (2016)
"All Hallow's Eve"
read by Owen's Quest
written by Erin Morgenstern
All Hallows
by Sharron Kraus & Friends
from the album " Right Wantonly A-Mumming" (2007)
Hallows’ Eve
by Show Of Hands
from the album “The Long Way Home” (2015)
All Hallow’s Eve
by The Story
from the album “John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth” (2011)
November
by Christopher Cross
from the album “Doctor Faith” (2011)
“The Origin And Customs Of Guy Fawkes' Day”
Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson and Harry Bartell as The Host
from "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Gunpowder Plot"
American Radio - Mutual Broadcasting System
(first broadcast: November 5th 1945)
Penny For The Guy
by Giggetty
from the album "Black Country Time" (1980)
Bonfire Night
by The Gathering Tide
from the album “The Gathering Tide” (2016)
Cold November Day
by Katy Rose Bennett
from the album “Songs Of The River Rea” (2016)
Thanksgiving Talk / Thankful
by Kristina Olsen
from the album "All Over Down Under" (2002)
Ride The Wind
by Spiral Dance
from the album "The Quickening" (2006)
For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
FolkCast: the podcast that brings you the worlds of folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music. The Summer Sizzler 2016: Jump in and take a ride through more than an hour of superb sounds to keep you sizzling all summer long… FolkCast is produced and presented by Folkie Phil Widdows
Music featured:
First Day Of Summer
by King Courgette
from the album "King Courgette" (2016)
In The Summertime
by Erik Johnson
from the album "In The Summertime" (2009)
A Surfer Courted Me
by Martha Tilston And The Woods
from the album "Ropeswing" (2005)
Sunshine
by Jimmy Lee Morris
from the album "Wilderness Wood" (2016)
It's A Barbecue Day
by Wood, Wire & Words
from the album "It's A Barbecue Day" (2015)
On Holiday In Stornaway
by Ken Nicol
from the album "Thirteen Reasons" (2011)
Beach House
by Bluebird Avenue
from the EP "Bag Of Animals" (2013)
Moonlight And Gold
by Rab Noakes
from the album "I'm Walkin' Here" (2016)
Fly Higher
by Ross Ainslie
from the album "Remembering" (2015)
If You Can't Land Her On The Old Verandah
by Hot Fingers
from the album "Fellside At 40 - The Journey Continues" (2016)
Blackberry Crisp
by Genevieve And The Wild Sundays
from the album "Fine Line" (2016)
Summer Sands
by James Filkins
from the album "Summer Sands And Sleeping Bears" (2012)
plus
"Life's A Beach" (written by Phil Widdows)
Skimming Stones
by Jacanda
from the album "Skimming Stones" (2009)
Sometimes At Sunset
by Helen Chadwick
from the album "Fragments Of Love" (2015)
Down In The Valley
by Rusty Shackle
from the album "Dusk" (2016)
O For Summer
by Clive Palmer
from the album "All Roads Lead To Land" (2005)
The Longest Day
by Kris Drever
from the album "If Wishes Were Horses" (2016)
Summer Skin
by Amy Cook
from the EP "Summer Skin Sampler" (2012)
Corn Jenny
by Talis Kimberley
from the album "Cloth Of Gold" (2016)
Campervan Song
by Jimmy Lee Morris
from the album "Wilderness Wood" (2016)
Home
by Darwin's Daughter
Single Release (2016)
August Leaves
by Carol Laula
from the album "The Bones Of It" (2016)
"You know it's summer when … the FolkCast Summer Sizzler hits your podcatcher!"
For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
March Into May 2016: A Podcast all about the season of Spring! FolkCast's fourth annual celebration of Spring. Presented and produced by Phil Widdows It's Spring Again by Arthur Askey
from the album "Hello Playmates" (2006)
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Gloomy Winter's Now Away by Spoil The Dance
from the album "Northern Commons" (2015)
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Spring 1919 by Coope Boyes & Simpson
from the album "As If…" (2010)
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"On Tower Hill beside All Hallows Church, members of the Groves of the Ancient Druid Order celebrate the 'Spring Equinox' (when Spring breathes new life into the dead Winter and barren earth becomes green again)…"Newsreel (1973)
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The Return Of The Sun by Kellianna
from the album "Lady Moon" (2004)
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The Shepperd: III. March by Margaret Buckle
(read by Niamh Cusack)
from the album "Summer's End: The Poems of Margaret Buckle with music by Edward Watson" (2009)
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So Early In The Spring by Mark Owen Music
Digital Release (2014)
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Boing by Mike Reinstein
from the album "The Tommy Tomato Songbook" (2005)
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Springtime Sunshine by Green Genes
from the album "Green Genes" (2010)
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"Let us to the open road, where every aspect pleases…"
"Silly Springtime Poem" (1938)
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Your Man by The Knights Of Mentis
from the album "New Pound Coin" (2013)
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"The origins of All Fools' Day"
from the book "The Twelve Months Of The Year" (published 1980)
Music: April Fool by John Kirkpatrick
from the album "The Duck Race" (2004)
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'Twas On One April's Morning by Show Of Hands
from the album "The Long Way Home" (2016)
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Dark Swift And Bright Swallow by Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr & Martin Simpson
from the album “Murmers” (2015)
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So Much Rain by Sarah McQuaid
from the album "The Plum Tree And The Rose" (2012)
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Pussywillows Cattails by Kenny Rankin
from the album "Silver Morning" (1974)
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*"Spring is sprung, grass iz rizz. I wonder where dem boidies is?
Ah! The boid is on the wing! But isn't dat absoid? I thought the wing is on da boid…"*
Anon.
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Cuckoo by Christof
from the EP "Springtime" (2010)
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Singing In the May by Mike O’Connor
from the album "Summon Up The Song" (2010)
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Hal-an-Tow by The Changing Room
from the album "Behind The Lace" (2015)
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Fort Lauderdale College Spring Break
1967 newsreel (Part I)
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Hunt The Hare (Part II) by Lisa Knapp
from the album "Hidden Seam" (2013)
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It's Saturday morning in Springfield…
from "Father Knows Best: Spring Cleaning", NBC radio (1954)
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The Pleasant Month Of May by Jackie Oates
from the album "Hyperboreans" (2009)
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Fort Lauderdale College Spring Break
1967 newsreel (Part II)
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Dandelions And Foxgloves by Becky Mills
from the album "Dandelion" (2013)
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Blow The Windy Morning by Faustus
from the album "Broken Down Gentlemen" (2013)
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When The Summer Comes Again by Hilary James & Simon Mayor
from the album "The Mandolin Album" (1990)
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Spring by Fabian Holland
from the album "A Day Like Tomorrow" (2015)
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Spring Song by Charlie Chaplin
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For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
The FolkCast Festive Selection Box - bursting with good things for the season of Christmas, Yule and Saturnalia, with specially selected music and readings. Beware the Abbot of Unreason!
Produced and presented by 'Folkie' Phil Widdows, featuring Babba *The Festive Programme:*
"What's in the shed?" featuring Phil & Babba
Sentimental Song by Reid Jamieson
from the album "Songs For A Winter's Night" (2012)
Fairytale Of New York by Christy Moore
from the album "Live At The Point" (1994)
All I Want For Christmas Is My Upper Plate by Homer & Jethro
Single Release (1953)
Christmas In Bed by Terence Blacker
from the album "Lovely Little Games" (2012)
Frost On The Gatepost (Instrumental) by Whapweasel
from the album "Skirl Naked" (1998)
with excerpts from "Christmas": A Dictionary Of English Folklore by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud (2000)
"Christmas Is Coming…" by Dominic Behan
from the album "The Singing Streets" (1958)
Deck The Halls by Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
from the album "A Sound Of Christmas Past" (2014)
Babba's Bad Christmas (part one)
Snow on Snow (The Bleak Midwinter) by Rue Royale
from "Christmas EP 2009/2010"
Old December by Thea Gilmore
from the album "Strange Communion" (2009)
Santa Will Find You by Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook (vocals: Eddi Reader)
from the album "Phil Cunningham's Songbook" (2015)
"Over the housetops and through the snow…"
from the animated film "Merry Christmas" (1950)
Silver Bells by Lorrie Newman Keating
from the EP "Memories Of The Season" (2015)
Dear Santa by Mike Reinstein and the Christmas Daysies
from the EP "Dear Santa" (2015)
Babba's Bad Christmas (part two)
The Boar's Head Carol by The Voice Squad
from the album "Concerning Of Three Young Men" (2014)
Festival Of Lights by Under A Banner
from the album "Close To The Clouds" (2014)
Phil is confronted by Babba's "Reindeer"….
Christmas Is Killing Me by 100 Mile House
from the EP "New Year" (2011)
Jingle Bells by River Whyless
Single release (2014)
Babba's Bad Christmas (part three)
Solstice Carol by Catt Kingsgrave
Digital release (2015)
Carol Of The Bells by The Last Bison
from the EP "Sleigh Ride" (2013)
Through Your Eyes On Christmas Eve by Abney Park
from the album "Through Your Eyes On Christmas Eve" (2012)
Gaudete E Personent Hodie by Angelo Branduardi
from the album "Futuro Antico I" (1996)
River by Kirsty Almeida
Digital release (2015)
Excerpt from "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding And Other Stories"
By Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
The Winter Wind by Marina Florence
Single Release (2015)
Three Boats by Commoners Choir
Digital release (2015)
Santa, Teach The World To Fly by Skinner & T'witch
Single release (2015)
When Christmas Day Is Near by Ange Hardy
From the EP "When Christmas Day Is Near" (2015)
A Dram To Warm The Piper by Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie
from the album "Journeys To The Heart" (1984)
Phil & Babba discover Santa's secret identity…
Merry Christmas from Everyone at FolkCast! For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
The Winter Storm 2015: music and readings for the darkest months.
Storm Warnings by various meteorologists...
Winter's Dreaming by Spiral Dance
from the album "Through A Sylvan Doorway" (2012)
Reading: December from "The Masque of Months" by Edward Fawcett (1878)
Winter Song by Jay Woodward
Single release (2013)
A Winter's Blues by Maz O'Connor
from the EP "London Lights" (2014)
Gathering Storm by Battlefield Band
from the album "Dookin'" (2007)
Reading: ”It was a dark and stormy night…"
Anon.
These Winter Winds by Luke Jackson
from the album "This Family Tree" (2015)
Winter (Part 1) by Iain Morrison
from the album "Skimming Stones… Sinking Boats" (2008)
Out Of Light by Kris Drever, John McCusker, Roddy Woomble
from the album "Before The Ruin (Remastered)" (2014)
Snow Blind by NE3Folk
from the album "Show Us Your Reds" (2015)
with
Reading: "The Snow Storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Jackie Leven
from the album "The Haunted Year" (2009)
Midwinter by Magna Carta
from the album "Tomorrow Never Comes - Best Of" (2012)
"Godzilla El Niño"…
with
Black Mamba/El Niño by Jethro Tull
from the album "Dot Com" (1999)
King Of Snow by Mike Reinstein and The Christmas Daysies
from the EP "Dear Santa" (2015)
The Blackest Night by Heed The Thunder
from the album "Cokaigne" (2014)
Forgotten, Never Be by Damh The Bard
from the album "Sabbat" (2015)
Sugar Wassail by Waterson-Carthy
from the album "Holy Heathens And The Old Green Man" (2006)
The January Stars by Winter Mountain
from the album "Winter Mountain" (2013)
January by Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin
from the album "Watershed" (2015)
The Last Dim Light Of January by Adam Dale
from the album "The Last Dim Light Of January" (2013)
The Green Man by Thedra
Single release (2008)
with
Reading: "The Green Man" by Lauren Raine
When The Green Man Walks The Forest by Martyn Wyndham-Read
from the album Where Ravens Feed (2001)
February by Alex Cambridge
Single release (2015)
"Damn You Snow!" ~ The Simpsons
Goodbye Cold Winter by Steve Folk (aka Blabbermouth)
from the album "Ramble" (2012)
Spring To Come by John Butler Trio
from the album "Flesh And Blood" (2014)
For full details see the ShowNotes section of www.folkcast.co.uk
As Summer fades, enjoy the wonders of Autumn with the Crackler! Featuring: Summer Fades To Fall by Don Amero
from the album "Refined" (2015)
Hi The Cuckoo! by Paul Green
Digital Release (2014)
'Tis Autumn by Geraldo & His Orchestra
B-side to the 78rpm single release "Soft Shoe Shuffle" (1942)
Look At September, Look At October / Tommy Randell's by Spoil The Dance
from the album "Northern Common" (July 2015)
with
It's September - poem by Edgar Albert Guest
The Orchard by Talis Kimberley
from the album "Queen Of Spindles" (2012)
Hopping Down In Kent by The Albion Dance Band
from the album "Live In Concert" (1993)
Harvest Will Come by Ashley Hutchings (guitar and vocals by Ken Nicol)
from the album "Human Nature" (2003)
The Old Bearded Man written and read by Dahm The Bard
(recorded exclusively for FolkCast - August 2015)
John Barleycorn by Oysterband with Steve Knightley and June Tabor
from the album "The Big Session Volume 1" (2004)
Gather My Fruit by Little Miss Higgins
from the album "Across The Plains" (2010)
Apple Picking Season by The Riverside
from the album "Apple Picking Season" (2013)
Now Westlin Winds by Dick Gaughan
from the album "Handful Of Earth" (1981)
Autumn Seed by Gill Sandell & Chris T-T
from the album "Walk Away, Walk Away" (March 2015)
Embers by March To May
from the album "The Water's Edge" (April 2015)
October Sun by Tudor Lodge
from the album "Runaway" (2003)
Weathercock by Phil Beer
from the album "Plays Guitar And Fiddle. Sings A Bit" (2014)
"As the nights draw in…" by David Drever, Convenor, General Teaching Council for Scotland
with
Fair Drawin' In by Clype (featuring Jenny Sturgeon)
from the album "Clype" (July 2015)
Halloween Is Black As Night by Jackson C. Frank
from the album "Fixin' To Die" (2014)
Jack O Lantern by Gilmore & Roberts
from the album "Conflict Tourism" (released: September 18 2015)
Rose Hip November by Beautiful Junkyards
from the album Beautiful Junkyards (2013)
Guy Fawkes Night by Luke Daniels & John Dipper
from the album Sleeping Giants (2012)
with
Bonfire Night - read by Ron Hynes
from the album "Hard Light - 32 Little Stories By Michael Crummey" (2003)
Welcome In Another Year (Bonfires) by Blanche Rowan & Mike Gulston
from the album "The Dance Goes On" (2013)
Milk And Honey by Sandy Denny
from the album "Sandy Denny (Complete Edition)" (2010)
Three Bonny Ships by Na-Mara
from the album "Navajos & Pirates" (May 2015)
FolkCast is produced and presented by Folkie Phil Widdows For full details see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk. Be kind to hedgehogs!
The Soundtrack for the Season! Grab your picnic blanket or a folding chair and enjoy more than an hour of superb sounds to keep you sizzling all summer long
Summer Is A-Comin' by Merry Hell, from the album "The Ghost In Our House And Other Stories" (2015)
Sun Song by Laura Veirs, from the album "Warp And Weft" (2013)
"A few days by the sea…" Newsreels, (1950s)
English Seaside Postcards by Paul McGladdery and Gaynor Wilson, recorded especially for FolkCast (2015)
Picnic by Peter Knight's Gigspanner, from the album "Doors At Eight (Live)" (2011)
Haymaking by Dora Greenwell
Country Life by Whapweasel, from the album "Festivalis" (2012)
Summerfly by Teresa Doyle and Doug Riley, from the album "Summerfly" (2004)
"Oh boy, Lake Platatuki!", from 'It's Higgins, Sir!' American Radio Show (1951)
Lake Song by The Decemberists, from the album "What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World" (2014)
Lilac Time by Anne-Marie Sanderson, from the EP "Shadows & Sparks" (2015)
"I've always loved the idea of summer and sun and all things hot…", from the film "Frozen" (2013)
Wonderful Day by Lee Maddison, from the album "Weightless" (2014)
Underneath A Blue And Cloudess Sky by Seasick Steve, from the album "You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks" (2011)
Sunshine Saturday by David Dee Moore, from the album "The Sun, The Moon, The Stars… and Other Moving Objects" (2013)
The Swallow by Thomas Aird
Swallows by Abbie Lathe, from the album "Low Summer" (2011)
Summer! Rain!, from British newsreel (1954)
Rain by Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, from the album "Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston" (2012)
"…atomic bombs, flying saucers or the eclipse!", British newsreel (1954)
Caught In The Rain by Steve Knightley, from the album "Track Of Words - Retraced" (2009)
The Weather Forecast, from British newsreels (1947)
Weatherman by Stormy Mondays, from the EP "On My Radio" (2010)
Lazybones by Joe Brown (with Sam Brown), from the album "The Very Best of Joe Brown: 50th Anniversary" (2008)
How Can I Compare Thee? by Skinner And T'witch, from the album "Rise" (2015)
"Thinking of Europe", from 'Our Miss Brooks' Summer Vacation', American Radio, 1955
Forest Of Summer by Fairytale, from the album "Forest Of Summer" (2015)
Solstice Call by Gaia Consort, from the album "Evolve" (2004)
Wickerman by Damh The Bard, from the album "Sabbat" (2015)
Head Home by Blackmailed & Bereft, single release (2014)
For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
A podcast all about the wonders of Spring.
Good news! You've survived the winter! Let's celebrate the coming of Spring with FolkCast's March Into May 2015, a progression in music and verse from the slow departure of old man winter to the birth of the summer. And in Spring, my fancy turns to just one thing! Anyone fancy a ride on my pogo stick? Spring Song by Charlie Chaplin, from the film "Limelight" (1952)
Written In Green by Bella Hardy, single release (2011)
Exile Of The Winter King by Phil Widdows (2015) featuring Looking Through by Mike Vass, from the album "DecemberWell" (2012)
Come The Springtime by Lee Maddison, from the album "Weightless" (2012)
"Everybody discovered it was Spring…" radio broadcast (March 1947)
First Light Of Spring by Luka Bloom, from the album "Innocence" (2005)
Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa' by North Atlantic Trio, from the album "Some Part Of Something" (2013)
Echoes From The Gates Of Darkness by Darren Sant
Spring Warning by Terence Blacker, released online
"Spring, Spring, you lovely thing…" Harold Peary as The Great Gildersleeve (radio, March 28th 1943)
Spring Song by Laura Veirs, from the album "Hello I Must Be Going" (2012)
Spring Season by Amazing Blondel, from the album "Evensong" (1970)
Farewell Winter by Matthew Tomayko, from the album "Pilgrim Window" (2010)
The Snows They Melt The Soonest by De-Malebysse (demo)
Making Maple Syrup ~ Excerpt from "Charles Kuralt's Spring" read by Charles Kuralt (1997)
Maple Syrup Time by Pete Seeger, from the album "One Meat Ball" (2006)
Transformation Of Energy by Night An'Fey
Antlered Crown And Standing Stone by Damh The Bard, from the album "Antlered Crown and Standing Stone" (2012)
"This is also a story of Spring…" from "Family Theatre" Radio Drama, April 1951.
April Fool's Day by S.J. Tucker, from the album "Blessings" (2008)
April Come She Will by Tracy Grammer, from the album "Book of Sparrows" (2008)
Easter Sunday can occur anytime between March 22nd and April 25th…
The Rochdale Coconut Dance by Threepenny Bit, from the album "Pantomime Cannon" (2014)
April Song by Jolly Jack, from the album " Seasons, Ceremonies & Rituals- The Calendar In Traditional Song" (2006)
April Friend by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, from the album "Strands Of Gold" (2006)
Shropshire Lad: Cherry Trees by A. E. Housman (1887)
Cherry Blossom by Paul McGladdery, released online (2014)
“What’s it like being in love..?” - radio show (March 1947)
Spring Cleaning by Fats Waller, (originally release 1937)
"…Lamb Bites Wolf…", excerpt from British Newsreel (1949)
One Morning In May by Kyle Carey, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, from the EP "One Morning In May" (2013)
Sumer Is Incumen In by Richard Thompson, from the album "1000 Years Of Popular Music" (
One Man's Morris / Ampthill Sunrise by Life And Times, from the album "Charivari" (2001)
The Beltane Fire Dance by Beltane Border Morris
Cotton Hill by Fairytale, from the album "Forest Of Summer" (2015)
"The Cuckoo comes in April…" Traditional rhyme
First Cuckoo Of Spring by Danni Nicholls, from the album "A Little Redemption" (2013)
Weaving The Summer by Spiral Dance, from the album "The Quickening" (2006)
For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
The FolkCast Festive Selection Box - bursting with good things for the season of Christmas, Yule and Saturnalia, with specially selected music and readings. Produced and presented by Folkie Phil Widdows featuring Babba and special guest star Ashley Hutchings with an exclusive appearance by Santa Claus. Introduction (from "Santa's Workshop" 1932)
Could It Be Christmas by Jon Lindsay, single release (2011)
"Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa!" ~ Bart Simpson.
The Reindeer Boogie by Hank Snow, single release (1953)
Sleigh Ride by Christmas Accordion, single release , with "Sly Little Santa" by Mrs CS Stone (1912) .
Father Christmas Down Hounslow High Street by Robb Johnson & The Irregulars – from the album "The Ghost Of Love - A Christmas Song Suite" (2009)
St Benedict's Christmas Fair by Lisa Redford, single release (2013)
"Shoes", written and read by Ashley Hutchings, with Christmas Shoes by Saxophone Dreamsound, from the album Sax Christmas (2014) into All I Want For Christmas Is Some Rockin' Shoes by Johnny Aitken, single release (2009)
"If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candles and nuts we'd all have a merry Christmas!"
Christmas At Sea by The Longest Johns, from the EP "Christmas At Sea" (2013)
Winter by John Smith, from the album The Fox And The Monk (2006)
Christmas In No Man's Land by Maggie Boyle, from the album "Won't You Come Away" (2012)
Silent Night by Andrews Massey, from the album Make Merry (2013) with "The Star", written and read by Ashley Hutchings.
Silent Night by Anne Marie Sanderson, single release (2014) with all proceeds to Amnesty International.
Someone by Barry Allen, from the album "Where The Heart Is" (2012)
Keep The Flame by Johnny Coppin, single release (2011),
This Time Of Year (Second Version) by Runrig, from the album Stepping Down The Glory Road (2013)
"The Queen's Christmas Message" read by Babba.
Christmas Rose by Blackheart, single release (2012)
"Burn Logs Burn" written and read by Ashley Hutchings into Burn Logs Burn, by The Albion Christmas Band, from the album "A Sound In The Frosty Air" (2011)
Footprints by Bella Hardy, from the album Bright Morning Star (2012)
"Smoking Bishop" read by Phil & Babba, to Punch by Lunasa, from the album "The Kinnitty Sessions" (2004)
"Eggnog 1887" read by Babba & Phil.
Who Spiked The Eggnog? by Straight No Chaser, from the album "Christmas Cheers" (2009)
The Little Drummer Boy by Ringo Starr, from the album I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999)
Carol Of The Bells by Marillion, single release (2014)
"Extract from 'Orlando' by Virginia Woolf", written and read by Ashley Hutchings.
God Rest Ye by Andrews Massey, from the album Make Merry (2013)
"Tinsel" read by Phil & Babba
Snow White Lies by Zoe Wren, from the album The FolkStock Christmas Present (2014)
"Boxing Day" read by Phil & Babba
The Wren Boys' Song by Nowell Sing We Clear, from the album "Nowell Sing We Four" (2007)
Good King Wenceslas by Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, from the album "A Sound Of Christmas Past" (2014)
Send Phil Some Brandy by Wood, Wire And Words - specially recorded for FolkCast (2014)
For full details and links to artists' websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk Merry Christmas from Everyone at FolkCast. It's our finger in YULE ear!
A storming collection of songs, poetry and prose for the winter 2014/15 Drive The Cold Winter Away by Green Diesel
from the album "Wayfarers All"
Winter Singing by The Imagined Village
from the album "Bending The Dark"
The Running Fox by The Young 'Uns
from the album "Never Forget"
Sparrow by Peter Lacey
from the album "Last Leaf"
(featuring a quotation as recorded by The Venerable Bede)
Song For A Winter's Night by Reid Jamieson
from the album "Songs For A Winter's Night"
*I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.*
~ Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing
Winter King by Ninebarrow
from the album "When The Blackthorn Burns"
When Springtime Comes Around by Mark Ellis
from the album "When Springtime Comes Around"
A Season In Your Arms by Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
from the album "The Call"
December Song by KC Barber
from the album "Cold Wind Blowing"
"The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons."
~ James Carlos Blake, Wildwood Boys
Through The Winter by George Boomsma
from the EP "Through The Winter"
*"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter….
In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity."*
~ John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers
Red Deer White Snow by Stooshie
from the album "Stydd"
*"I put up a petition annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us.
Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fire-side: candles at four o’clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea,
a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without…"*
~ Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Weather by Rainbow Chasers
from the album "Chimes At Midnight"
Icicles by Miranda Sykes
from the album "Bliss"
*The days are short,
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.
Fat snowy footsteps
Track the floor,
And parkas pile up
Near the door.
The river is
A frozen place
Held still beneath
The trees’ black lace.
The sky is low.
The wind is gray.
The radiator
Purrs all day.*
~ John Updyke, January
Gloomy Winter by Shine
from the album "Sugarcane"
"The English winter—ending in July, To recommence in August…"
~ Lord Byron
"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter."
~ Billy Connolly
Highland Snow by Andi Butler
from the album "Six Songs"
“Winter is not a season; it's an occupation.”
~ Sinclair Lewis
Winter Fever by Kyle Carey
from the album "North Star"
*Think of winter and think of snows
but in England that's not how it goes.
Here blizzards are as rare as a placid child,
English winters are wet and mild
and wild with gales and gnawing damp
that dull the days and put a cramp
on life out of doors. So we don't dash
through crystal drifts but trudge and splash
as the rain and drizzle floods and flows
and dewdrops drip from off our nose.
Then, soaked and raw, we go home quick
… and turn the heating up a click.*
~ Phil Widdows, English Winter
January Sky by Charlie Mosbrook
from the album "Something To Believe"
"Winter is nature’s way of saying, 'Up yours!'."
~ Robert Byrne
Harbour View Hotel by Duncan McCrone
from the album "Colourblind"
"February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March."
~ Dr. J.R. Stockton
Storm by Nigel Brown
from the album "Mother Ivey"
For full details and links to artists' websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
Greetings, and welcome to the FolkCast Halloween Scream for 2014, a special show featuring My Babies…, an original tale of terror about a folk tradition which, for some, has a gruesome intensity.
**So, this is not suitable for those of a nervous disposition, or whose imaginations tend to get the better of them when darkness falls, the wind howls, and when the veil between the worlds becomes thinnest.
It's not something to play to your babies, either. Not yet. Save it until they are old enough to know that what they imagine and what is real are not always the same thing. Not … always.**BUT, if you're willing to take the risk of a shiver or a shock, please - lock all your doors and windows, turn off all distractions, sit back and be comfortable for the next 20 minutes while I tell you all about My Babies…
+~+
My Babies... is written, presented and produced by Phil Widdows
Intro music taken from: Jack-O-Lantern Waltz by The Similar Trends – from the album 'Man In The Moon'
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"Earth/Moon Dance Music": The Hangman's Waltz by Daisy Chapman – from the album 'Shameless Winter'
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Closing Song: The Pumpkin Song (I Long To Be A Jack-O'-Lantern) by Paul Borgese and the Strawberry Traffic Jam – from the album 'Songs For Halloween'
See our website: www.folkcast.co.uk
A hand-gathered harvest of music and poetry for the season. Take a walk with us from September to December, through Halloween and Guy Fawkes' Night.
Presented and produced by Phil Widdows, featuring readings by Babba and Phil.
Golden Sun by Phil Manzenera
from the album "Vozero"
Silver And Gold by Kim Lowings & The Greenwood
from the album "This Life"
Out Of Season by John Conolly
from the album "Send Us A Postcard"
Small High Whistle From A Bird by Maia
from the album "Maia"
September Road by Jane Thomason
from the album "September Road"
Harvest Moon by Peter Lacey
from the album "Last Leaf"
Summer Fades by Smoke Fairies
from the album "Through Low Light And Trees"
The Man In Green by Show Of Hands
from the album "Lie Of The Land"
Trees Turn To Fire by Jon Budworth
from the album "Trees Turn To Fire"
Autumn Sounds by The Vessels
from the album "The Vessels"
England's Skies by David Gibb & Elly Lucas
from the album "Up Through The Woods"
Setting Sun by Salt House
from the album "Lay Your Dark Low"
Birdsong by Ninebarrow
from the album "When The Blackthorn Burns"
Autumn Leaves by Feast Of Fiddles
from the album "Still Live"
Autumn Leaves by Deborah Rose
from the album "Soul Be My Soul"
Harvest by Nick Cook
from the album "Mistaken"
October Sky by Taylor Brown Trio
from the album "Notebook"
Soul, Soul by John Kirkpatrick
from the album "Every Mortal Place"
We'll Be Ghosts by Brooke Bentham
single release
The Ghost On The Moors by Ange Hardy
from the album "Bare Foot Folk"
Penny For The Guy by Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie with The Missing Pieces
from the album "Cut And Run"
A Cob-Coaling Medley by The Oldham Tinkers
from the album "Best O' T' Bunch"
December Snow by The Moody Blues
from the album "December"
For full details and links to artists' websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
The Summer Sizzler 2014 from FolkCast
The Soundtrack of the Season! *Pull up a beach chair, help yourself to barbecue and beer, and enjoy 80 minutes of sizzling summer sounds from FolkCast,
home of the best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music!*
Presented and produced by Phil Widdows with interjections from Babba Contents
Sing A Song Of Summer by John Martyn from the album "The Tumbler"
Springtime Promises by Pentangle, from the album "Basket Of Light"
"Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends." - Darell Hammond
Meet You In The Summer by Chris Hardy, from the album "Health To Your Hands"
"In the Bible when it rained for 40 days and 40 nights they called it a disaster. In England, we call it summer…" - Anon
Right As Rain by Peter Lacey, from the album "Last Leaf"
“At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun." - Sandy Gingras.
Sun Golden Sun by The Tansads, from the album "Rough And Ready: The Early Years"
Atoms by Runrig, from the album "Everything You See"
Summer by Broadfoot, from the album "Straight Between Us"
"It's summer, and that can only mean one thing: it's time to find out what my friends with swimming pools have been up to since last summer…" - Anon
The Swimming Song by Fairport Convention, from the album "Old, New, Borrowed, Blue"
"I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball!" - Gene Perret
I Have Lately Learned To Swim by 3 Boxes, from the album "Strings Attached"
In The Summertime by The Peddlers, from the album "Three For All"
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." — Sam Keen
Inverary Summer Nights by The Clydesiders, from the album "Scottish Folk Songs Of The West"
Stars Over Cloughanover by The Saw Doctors, single release.
Skylark by Moonrakers, from the album Beneath The Snow
- with To A Skylark (excerpt) by John Clare, read by Michael Sheen
Summer Fires by Ninebarrow, from the album "While The Blackthorn Burns"
Dunstable Downs by Life And Times, from the album "Charivari"
- with Summer Solstice Song, written by Sophie Watson, performed by Frejya's Fire
Noon Of The Solstice by Damh The Bard, from the album "Spirit Of Albion"
Lush Green Leaves by Paul McGladdery, from the album "Northwing Sessions 2013"
"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jewelled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." - Ada Louise Huxtable
Down By The Greenwood by Golden Bough, from the album "Contemporary Songs: The Night Wind"
The Way Through The Woods by David Gibb & Elly Lucas, from the album "Up Through The Woods"
Summer Outing to Heaton Park, by Ewan MacColl
This Time by Merry Hell, from the album "BLINK ... And You'll Miss It"
"Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James
Postcard From Summer (instrumental) by Sebastian Owen, download release
"Now let's find our own thrill…" - 1946 newsreel
Wonderland by House Of Hats, from the album "This Love"
Dog Days by Locomotive Ghost, from the EP "Summer"
The Summer Lady by Steeleye Span, from the album "Wintersmith"
Keep focused on FolkCast for the best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music … all year round!
FolkCast's second annual celebration of the season of Spring, as told in music, rhyme and verse. Come on, let's set out now on a journey from the death of Old Man Winter to the dawning of a new summer … on the way we'll visit April and Easter as we March Into May! The Music and Verse (§) Spring Song by Charlie Chaplin
First Song Of Spring by Paul McGladdery
It May Be Spring But I Still Need A Coat by The Webb Sisters
§ Spring by Ian Bland (written and recorded exclusively for FolkCast)
with Dance Of The Demon Daffodils (instrumental) by John Kirkpatrick
I Saw The Sun Today by Becky Mills
Come The Springtime by Blue Rose Code
§ Never Mind, March by Anon
The Springtime Of The Year by John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers
First Spring Day by Suburban Tribe
Spring Has Sprung by George Breakfast
§ Excerpt from Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost
with The Walk Before Easter (instrumental) by Martin Simpson
§ Blackrod Hawthorn written and spoken by Dogman (aka David Sands)
One More Day by Skylark Song
Snowdrops/Birth by Maddy Prior
§ Pace-Egging And Old Tosspot
Pace-Egging Time by The Watersons
§ Easter by Bill Hicks
Easter Snow by Christy Moore
It Can't Be So by Ange Hardy
Our Stolen Season by Ashley Hutchings (vocals, Emily Slade)
Let's Misbehave by Irving Aaronson & His Commanders
§ Excerpt from Jeeves In The Springtime by PG Wodehouse
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park by Tom Lehrer
Bleed The Maple by Emmett Doyle
Bluebells by Rosa Rebecka
§ May Day Approaching… by Ewan MacColl
Northill May Song / Mwynen Mai by Blanche Rowan & Mike Gulston
The First Of May (instrumental) by James Bell
Cuckoo's Nest by The Morris On Band
§ May Day In Ducklington by Cecil Sharp
Cuckoo's Nest (instrumental and dance) by Hunter's Moon Morris
May Morning by Triangle
§ Why Spring? by Phil Widdows
A Clown's Heart by Oysterband
For full details and links to artists' websites, see the Shownotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
In 2014, spring begins with the vernal equinox on March 20 at 4:57pm GMT
Music and poetry for the season of Winter, of Christmas & Yuletide.
Presented by Babba - Produced by Phil Widdows - Readings by Phil Widdows Song For A New Beginning by Secret Garden, from the album Winter Poem
.... with Winter Begins by Phil Widdows
Winter Song by Anne Marie Almedal, from the album Memory Lane
Winter Rose by Fairground Attraction, from the album The Very Best Of Fairground Attraction
.... with Winter Bonus, a limerick...
Cold Blow December Winds by Winter Wilson, from the album Cutting Free
Wintersongs by Judy Dyble, from the album Flow And Change
The Invisible Waltz by Howard Haigh, from the album Ride Forever and A Winter Snowscape by Martin Barre, from the album Stage Left
.... with London Snow by Robert Bridges
Bring Us In Good Ale by Maddy Prior And The Carnival Band, from the album A Christmas Caper
The Company Makes The Feast by Kathryn and Bob Tickell, from the album Northumbrian Voices
All In The Winter Time by Life And Times, from the album Charivari
Christmas Bells by Bellowhead
Gower Wassail by Blast From The Past, from the album A Victorian Christmas
Wailey Wailer by Jim Causley, from the album Dumnonia
The Holly & The Ivy by Kerfuffle, from the album Lighten The Dark
Deck The Halls/Ding Dong by Andrews Massey Duo, from the album Make Merry
Wexford Carol by Gareth Davies-Jones, from the album Nine Lessons
North Pole Express by Nick Lowe, from the album Quality Street
I Believe In Father Christmas by Lisa Redford
Canadian Christmas Song by Eric Bogle, from the album The Dreamer
That Sleigh by Steve Folk
It's This Time Of Year by Neils Cremer
A Light Out Of The Dark by The Halstead Clan
Advent Polka/Saint Nick's Brawl by The Albion Christmas Band, from the album An Albion Christmas
... with About Socks by Dr Seuss (take #61)
Big Daddy C by Roy Mette
We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Brian Brink, from the album Christmas In The Grove
... with Another Spring by Patience Strong
We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Bella Hardy, from the album Bright Morning Star
For full details, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk This is a FolkCast podcast. All original content is copyright FolkCast 2013 ©
The FolkCast Autumn Crackler 2013: a collection of songs and quotations for the season
*"Summer swift becomes memory,
and autumn falls to the ground
in a harvest of gold leaf and ripe berries,
as the year rolls around
And here is the FolkCast Crackler,
a harvest of verse and of song,
a salute to the season's quality
as the year rolls along."*
The Boys Of Summer by Show Of Hands
The Green Man by Roy Harper
“Autumn -- that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness -- that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
September (Alternative Version) by Nick Cook
Autumn by Paolo Nutini
Brambles On A Hill by Ashley Hutchings
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ― George Eliot
Gathering Summer In by Talis Kimberley
“But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September. It stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favourite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.” ― Stephen King, Salem's Lot
Fire At Midnight by Jethro Tull
Sparkle Eyes by Gill Sandell
"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night." — Hal Borland
Half The Way by Marco Catracchia
“It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.” ― P.G. Wodehouse
Paris In Spring by Mark Handley
Mist In Autumn by FolkLaw
Things Behind The Sun by Luluc
*“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”* ― Humbert Wolfe
Wind That Cracks The Leaves by In Gowan Ring
Sycamore Tree by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker
“October proved a riot; a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” ― Keith Donohue
October by Tuung
“The tints of autumn: a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier
Autumn Snow by The Last Bison
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild colour just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
A Leaf Must Fall (intro) by Prydwyn And Kira with Quickthorn
Marigold by Maddy Prior
“Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.” ― Daphne du Maurier, The Birds & Other Stories
Migrating Bird by Anthony Thistlethwaite
Remembrance Day by Mark Knopfler
*"November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.*
*With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.**The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring."*
— Clyde Watson
November by Steven Lindsay
Strangers We Meet by The Black Feathers
For further details, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
A soundtrack for the season: summery songs and songs of the summer, with poetry and quotations to match. A soundtrack for the season: summery songs and songs of the summer, with poetry and quotations to match.
Music from: Eddi Reader - The True Gents - Candidate - Co-Pilgrim - Blanche Rowan & Mike Gulston - Lola & The Bludgies - Uku The Mighty - Union Jill - Jack Harris - Alexandre Nestorov - Damh The Bard - Jon Airdrie - Paul Mosley - Nick Drake - Mark Knopfler - Man's Ruin - Nigel Brown - Show Of Hands - Martin Francis - Luke Jackson - Eric Pukos
Poetry and quotations from: Enid Blyton - James Dent - William Cullen Bryant - F. Scott Fitzgerald - William Shakespeare - Natalie Babbitt - Deb Caleti For full details, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
Spring Into May: A FolkCast Seasonal Special Music and poetry for the Spring to early Summer, from Easter to the Merry Merry month of May.
Produced by Phil Widdows. 1: March Borrowed From April by Hilary James
with Oh Sweet Spontaneous by E.E. Cummings §
2: Spring Song by Waking The Witch
"Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush!"
- Doug Larson *
3: Holding Out For Spring by Jonnie Murphy
4: As I Roved Out by Matthew Ord
"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month!" - Henry Van Dyke *
5: Oh For The Spring by Neil Cousin
6: In Weaving Spring by Sedayne
with Days Too Short, by WH Davies
read by David Barnes via Librivox.org
"Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature—if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you—know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse."
- Henry David Thoreau §
"The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields; there, in dalliance, to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now, we just set the clocks an hour ahead…"
- E.B. White *
7: When Spring Comes In by Spriguns
8: The First Rites Of Spring by Simon Fowler's Merrymouth
9: Springtime by Tess
"In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours…"
- Mark Twain *
10: Spring Song by Fairport Convention
11: April Morning by The Ralf Weihrauch Trio
*"Come, fill the Cup. And, in the Fire of Spring
the Winter Garment of Repentance fling.
The Bird of Time has but a little way to fly,
and Lo! The bird is on the wing…"*
- Omar Khayyam §
12: The Cuckoo by James Findlay
13: Two Giants by Dave Alton
(Music featured: Wintro by Mike Vass; Pan Dance by Jethro Tull; Lights Out by Mike Vass; Winter's Dreaming by Spiral Dance; Melter by Mike Vass )
14: Green Man by Magicfolk
*"And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."* - Percy Bysshe Shelley *
15: Green Jack by Lisa Knapp
16: The Pleasant Month Of May by Jackie Oates
17: Garland Gay by Little Johnny England
18: Maymorning by Runrig
19: Middle Of May by Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
with Weathers by Thomas Hardy
read by Richard Burton
20: Bonny Black Hare by Steeleye Span
21: Beltane by Jethro Tull
22: Summerisle by The Bailey Sisters
"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." - Rainer Maria Rilke*
23: Under A Beltane Sun by Damh The Bard
§ = read by Phil Widdows
- = read by Babba
See the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
Come to the FolkCast Village Hall for a special show full of music, poetry and comedy to celebrate winter, Yuletide, Christmas and beyond! Presented and produced by Phil Widdows. Our programme:
- Fire And Wine by Green Diesel
- The Last Month Of The Year by Tarbox Ramblers
- Winter Song by Emily Smith
- Reothadh (Frost) Joy Dunlop and Twelfth Day with Winter by William Shakespeare (Read by Ruth Golding for librivox.com)
- Iced In by Life And Times
- By The Fire by Josienne Clarke
- Bransles by Kerfuffle with For The Children Or The Grown-ups? by Anon. (Read by Phil Widdows) *
- It's That Time Of Year Again by Bob Kirkpatrick
- Silent Night by Priscilla Ahn
- Mistletoe And Holly by Beegie Adair
- Wonderful Christmastime by Jars Of Clay
- Merry Christmas Everyone by Bella Hardy
- Stop The Cavalry by Barricades Rise
- Cycles by Mike Vass with Colloquy Of The Oak And Holly King written and recited by Damh The Bard and Cerri Lee *
- Snow Falls by The Albion Band
- Tune For A Blythesome Turkey by Ken Nicol with The Turkey by Dave Carr (Read by Phil Widdows) *
- Essex Wassail by Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer
- Jingle Bells by Anup with Is There A Father Christmas? by The Human Nutrino (Read by Babba) with a rebutting excerpt from Miracle on 34th Street*
- Dad, Is There Really A Santa Claus? by The Albion Band
- We Three Gypsy Kings by The Christmas Album Band with The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus by Ogden Nash (Read by Phil Widdows) *
- Little Christmas (Chasing Fairy Lights) by Jo Bywater *
- Love Came Down by Gareth Davies-Jones
- Winter Song by Lindisfarne
( = a FolkCast exclusive)*
For further details and links, click here to see the ShowNotes
Bring a bottle and join the party for our festive special for 2011, with music from: Coope, Boyes, Simpson, Fraser, Freya and Boyes - The Rash - Findlay Napier and The Bar Room Mountaineers - Debra Cowan - Thursday's Child - Cross The Border - Damien Barber and The Durbervilles - Erica Wheeler - Waterson:Carthy - The Morris On Band - Neil innes - The Banana Sessions - The Tremendous Seasons - David Cahalan - Carwyn Tywyn - The Glasgow Madrigirls - The Oxford Voices with Sioned Williams - The Oxford Waits - Ken And Lisa Theriot - Magpie Lane - Brocc - St Agnes Fountain - Billy Bragg and Ben Sollee - Robin Allender - Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Bailey Sisters.
A short, smooth blast of folk music that is just right for the end of the year with New Year's songs from Lisa Redford, Amy Dixon Kolar and The Albion Band.See the ShowNotes for the New Year's Eve Blast 2010
Our festive special for 2010 features music from: Tennessee Ernie Ford - B.E. Taylor - Damh The Bard - Jon London - Keith Ahern - Monte Selby - Eric Reed - The Magical Christmas Tree Tour featuring Pete Morton, Maggie Boyle and Chris Parkinson - Aine Furey - Brave Combo - Blabbermouth - Michael Silvestri - Stig Denson - Pink Martini - Durbin Elf - Natalie McCool - Tim and Kathy Mahoney - Joemy Wilson - The Lancashire Hotpots - The Columba Minstrels - Triangle - Ken Nicol - Joglaresa - Rusty Bladen - The cast of A Dont Hug Me Christmas Carol - The Swing Cats - Pittsburgh Symphony Brass. See the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
Seasonal songs, tunes and readings in a hand-picked mix of some of the very best alternative music for the Christmas period. Featuring: Roger Pontare - Steve Fulton - Undercover Christmas - Adrienne Pierce - Ann Sweeten - The GrooveBarbers - US Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants - Magpie Lane - Clearance - Asleep At The Wheel - Would Be Goods - The Tinsel Tones - Triangle - Dan Baraszu and Joseph Patrick Moore - Bill Furner - The Lancashire Hotpots - Torquestra (featuring Jobee) - Amy Marie - Anna Wilson - Janyse - The Swingle Singers - Kites With Lights - Kitty Robbins - Steeleye SpanFor full details see the ShowNotes at http://www.folkcast.co.uk/ShowNotes/shownotesbox09.html
A recreation of the British folk tradition of the guiser or mummers play - an entertainment of great renown, featuring the finest theatrical talent and music both rare and excellent! Music from: The Christmas Revels - Peter Calo - The Oxford Waits.
See the ShowNotes for Sir Guy The Seeker
Seasonal songs, tunes and readings in a hand-picked mix of some of the very best alternative music for the Christmas period. Music from: The Christmas Revels - Al Pettaway and Amy White - Lee Harris And Country Sunshine - Blitzen Trapper - Ian Whitcomb - Bill Kahler - Chris Goddard - Doug Astrop - Kitka - Pittsburgh Symphony Brass - The Tequila Mockingbirds - Jars Of Clay - Jennifer Avalon - Al Stravinsky - Simon Bernard-Smith - Maeron English Folk Music - Damh The Bard - The Klezmatics - Chris and Siobhan Nelson - James Edwards - Helene Blum - Mike Fred - Howell-Freundlich Orchestra - Neil Murray - Martin Sexton - Ken Nicol.. See the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
No talk, just music. A journey through mid-Winter into Yule, Christmas and New Year, ending with a look to the far distant summer. Featuring: Pig's Ear- Chris and Siobhan Nelson - Venereum Arvum - Philip G. Martin - Stonefield Tramp - Bernie Stocks - Christian Hoffman - Dahm The Bard - Pumajaw - Steeleye Span - The Numbskulz - The Bully Wee Band - Songs From The Blue House - Craig Cardiff - Erik Darling - Hank Stone - Lee Rosemere - Jim Goodrich - The Moonrakers - Ken Nicol - Rachel and John Bowyer - Flowman - The Volume Brothers - Magpie Lane - Abbie Lathe - Pigs Ear - Tracy Jane Comer - The Owl Service - Show Of Hands. See the ShowNotes at http://www.folkcast.co.uk/ShowNotes/shownotesbox07.html
to brighten any year end celebration, we present the Festive FolkCast - no talk from us, just great music from Puzzlejug - The Hipcola - Dan Edwards - 3 Blind Mice - Pete Dodds - Clive Gregson - Steve Tilston and Maggie Boyle - The Christmas Jug Band - Gary - gidgets ga ga - The Albion Band ... and something saucy and spicy from Big Al Whittle. See the ShowNotes at http://www.folkcast.co.uk/ShowNotes/shownotes012.html