Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 02:20 PM

That's why I asked a question rather than make a dogmatic assertion...

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 05:05 AM

"How many actually consider themselves folkies..." if that was the question, then how the f=ck would anyone know, making it a totally pointless question in the first place.

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:21 AM

"How many actually consider themselves folkies... " Probably none or very few. That was the whole point of it.

A previous - and different - Guest, I assume.

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: GUEST,Yet another guest
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:59 AM

As someone who loves all sorts of music - folk, blues, jazz, classical, opera, brass band etc. etc., I fail to see how any attempts to categorise music can be seen as useful.
I think it was Louis Armstrong who said something like 'its all folk music, I ain't ever heard no horse playing it'.
I must admit I kind of draw the line at country and western though.

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 09:37 AM

Just watched a few fragments of this "Folk Prom" - more than enough of Sam Lee who couldn't even be bothered to tuck his shirt in???

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: GUEST,yet another guest
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 01:05 PM

Funny that the b'' awful Unthanks represented ENGLISH song-

If a Northumbrian dance band were to chosen to represent the 'English' music tradition, that would be atypical, wouldn't it?

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Aug 18 - 06:02 AM

Prom 27 Folk Music

A review from the Independent; This Prom was to folk music as Disney is to a child’s imagination: brighter, louder, larger and so much less than the real thing.

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Aug 18 - 06:10 AM

They should have had Ashley Hutchings convene a special Albion Band for the occasion!

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Aug 18 - 06:21 AM

They should have had Ashley Hutchings convene a special Albion Band for the occasion! 

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 08:22 AM

I predict a repeat of the points above for a radio2 "Friday Night Is Music Night" coming up...
The Ballads of the Great War - Live
19:50 Fri 9 Nov 2018 MediaCityUK, Salford

... This edition of Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 showcases the outstanding songs composed for the award-winning radio series, The Ballads of the Great War. The songs, written by some of the UK’s top folk musicians, are based on recordings of real people describing their experiences in WWI at home and abroad.

The songs have received stirring new orchestral arrangements by Greg Lawson, and will be interwoven with the poignant testimonies that inspired them.
Respected folk artists
Bob Fox,
John Tams,
Chris While,
Julie Matthews and
Jez Lowe
will sing the songs, along with popular music from the time. ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8zcd4 


Neither the schedule or actual programme are on the BBC website but here is a link for Fri 9 november if you're hoping to listen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8v/2018/11/09 

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 14 Oct 18 - 05:59 AM

10 years ago (gosh was it really that far back!) I called for the ceilidh with the London Lasses at the Folk Prom - the acts included Bellowhead, Bella Hardy and Martin Simpson - not an orchestra in sight! (but a lot of guitar tuning I recall).

Subject: RE: Folk Prom on BBC radio & TV tonight
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 12:31 PM

The Ballads of the Great War - Live

Join the author Michael Morpurgo and the BBC Philharmonic in this very special event to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Michael Morpurgo will read passages from his books, War Horse and Private Peaceful, and in combination with the musical performances and vivid testimonies, pay tribute to people whose lives were so greatly affected by a terrible conflict.

This will be one of the significant commemoration broadcasts marking the centenary of the armistice.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8v/2018/11/09 now shows;

BBC Radio 2 09 November 2018 20:00 World War One
Ballads of the Great War - Live 1 hour 57 minutes