A new generation of singer-songwriter, some 50-year-old Californian songcraft, and Lady Nairne’s canonical folksongs of centuries long past…
Wandering Arrow – Curiosity Shop
Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright – Martin Simpson
Senegal – Spell Songs
Everybody Knows Now – Alice Faye
A Mountaineer Is Always Free – Pierce Pettis
On And On – Stephen Bishop
Rolling Stone (Reimagined) – Beth Malcolm & Rayon City Materials Company
Kait’s – Rebecca Hill and Charlie Stewart
The Auld Hoose – Jean Redpath
The Rowan Tree – Hannah Rarity & Innes White
Time Will Forget – Lavinia Blackwall
POEM: ‘Time does not bring relief; you all have lied’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time – Frances Black & Kieran Goss
The Universe – Josie Duncan
Little Italy – Stephen Bishop
POEM: ‘The Wild Geese’ read by Wendell Berry
The Peace Of Wild Things / Dayblind – Crooked Still
Honest Work / Finlandia – Maddy Prior
Last Trip Home – BrÒg
Working Man – Rita McNeil
Cradle Song – Daisy Chute and Michael Csányi-WillsLand O’ The Leal – Silly Wizard
Bright Star – Sarah Irvine
Time After Time – Cassandra Wilson
I Know Now – Andie
Careless – Stephen Bishop
Jolene – Rachel Newton
On Tuesday for my 80th birthday I went to Dalston near to where I used to see a performance of Bright Phoebus, reworking the 1972 album by Mike and Lal Waterson. A six piece group led by Eliza Carthy and her cousin Marie Waterson. With an introduction by Stewart Lee and one song sang by Paul weller it was joyous.