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Season 5 Trailer
Season 5 Episode 42
A delicious taster of some of the amazing new episodes coming your way in season 5 of Folk on Foot. Recorded before the lockdown, we’ve been walking with Kitty Macfarlane on the Somerset Levels, Chri…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Bonus Episode: Seven Songs from Season 4
Season 4 Episode 41
Featuring “Queen of Waters” by Nancy Kerr, “Scapa Flow 1919” by Kris Drever, “Sleeping Beauty” by Bella Hardy, “I’m a Woman on Wheels” by Peggy Seeger, “The Token” by Rachel Newton, “Walking Through …
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Episode: Front Room Festival 2 Highlights
Season 4 Episode 40
On Monday 25th May – Spring Bank Holiday in the UK – we staged the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival 2 with an astonishing line up of artists. The show lasted for eight hours – but we have distilled i…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Episode: Jarlath Henderson at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls
Season 4 Episode 39
Jarlath Henderson has been described as the “Jimi Hendrix of the uilleann pipes”. He is also a fine singer and accomplished player of the whistle. At the age of 17 he became the youngest ever winner…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Episode: Su-a Lee at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls
Season 4 Episode 38
Su-a Lee is a classically trained cellist who loves breaking down musical barriers. With the group Mr McFall’s Chamber she’s played contemporary classical music in night clubs and she regularly colla…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Rachel Newton at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls
Season 4 Episode 37
The Edinburgh-born harpist, fiddle player and singer Rachel Newton sings in both English and Gaelic and is a member of The Shee, The Furrow Collective and the Lost Words Spell Songs. We walked with h…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Episode: Front Room Festival Highlights
Season 4 Episode 36
On Easter Bank Holiday Monday, April 13th 2020, we organised the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival - seven and a half hours of wonderful folk music from 15 top artists playing in their front rooms, li…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Bella Hardy in Edale
Season 4 Episode 35
The singer, songwriter and fiddle player Bella Hardy takes Matthew for a rain-sodden walk through the majestic countryside of the Edale Valley in the Peak District where she was brought up and has no…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Peggy Seeger in Iffley
Season 4 Episode 34
After a life on the road, folk legend Peggy Seeger has settled in the village of Iffley on the outskirts of Oxford. In this episode she talks poignantly about her mother, a talented composer who die…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Kris Drever on Orkney
Season 4 Episode 33
The guitarist, singer and songwriter Kris Drever was born and brought up on Orkney, the archipelago off the Northern coast of Scotland which is steeped in history. The walk starts in the main town of…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago