I missed one week due to being snowed in!! Sorry about that! And another apology for being late with this week's playlist, I was distracted by the birth of a granddaughter.


This week's programme has Graham Pratt talking about Sheffield Folk Chorale.

http://www.grahamandeileenpratt.co.uk/choir.html

The playlist is as follows:

Sharon Shannon/Music for a Found Harmonium/Sharon Shannon
Danu/Apples in Winter/Frost is All Over/Seanchas
Alistair Anderson/When the Frosts are Setting In/Steel Skies
Coope Boyes and Simpson/Drive Cold Winter Away/Fire and Sleet and Candleleet
Sheffield Folk Chorale/Lay Me Low No Easy Trade
Sheffield Folk Chorale/Carollers from Hell/No Easy Trade
Sheffield Folk Chorale/Three Kings Came/No Easy Trade
Sheffield Folk Chorale/Hail Chime On/No Easy Trade
Sheffield Folk Chorale/Grinder's Hardships/No Easy Trade

Interview

Kerfuffle/The Truth From Above/Lighten the Dark
Wendy Weatherby/Riccarton Tollman's Daughter/A Shirt of Silk or Snow
Kerfuffle/Branles/Lighten the Dark

Second Half

Niamh Ni Charra/Alegretto/From Both Sides
Lunasa /Carolan's Welcome/The Story So Far
Runrig/Tear Down These Walls/Searchlight
Norma Waterson/Bright Shiny Morning/Bright Shiny Morning
Eliza Carthy/Jack Frost/Holy Heathens And the Old Green Man
Niamh Ni Charra/Johnny O' Leary's/From Both Sides
English Folk Carols/Pentonville/English Villlage Carols
English Folk Carols/Hark Hark/ English Villlage Carols
English Folk Carols/Raise Christians Raise/English Villlage Carols
Glenrock Carolers/While Shepherds Watch/Voices of Christmas

I covered Radio Derby's axing of its folk programme. Any listener wanting to join me in the protest can write to:

Simon Cornes, BBC Radio Derby. 56, St Helen's Street, Derby DE1 3HY.

And send Lester and Mike a Christmas card. The next song seemed appropriate.

Ian Campbell Folk Group/Peat Bog Soldiers/Voice to the People
Roaring Jelly/Christmas in Australia/Nowt So Funny As Folk
Spooky Men's Chorale/Vote the Bastards Out/Tooled Up

Life and Times/All in The Wintertime/Charivari
Niamh Ni Charra/San Antonio/From Both Sides


Thanks for listening
Dave