The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan

Subject: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan
From: John Routledge
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 09:31 AM

At 9.30am GMT Tuesday 16 Jan there is a 15 min piece on the voice in Folk Song. It will look at voice specifically.

It is the second programme in a series of five the first being the Jazz Voice which can be heard on BBBC Radio 4 archive.
It was broadcast yesterday (9thJan) at 9.30am titled "The Singer not the Song"

Just listened to it again. Great stuff worth 15 mins of anybodies time

Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan
From: sian, west wales
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 11:24 AM

I heard a bit of the first one and am looking forward to the second. Blurb:

The Folk Voice

Tuesday 16 January 2007 9:30-9:45 (Radio 4 FM)

What defines an unforgettable voice, and is a great voice born or made? In this series we will not only hear and analyse some of the best voices across the last century, but also inform about music and the context in which they are singing.

We consider the qualities essential to sing traditional English folk songs. In a genre where storytelling ability is paramount, is having a beautiful voice a burden or a blessing?

If it were not for the work of a handful of collectors in the early part of the 20th Century travelling around the country, painstakingly recording the music of the working class, many of the songs which had been orally handed down from generation to generation for hundred of years would have been lost.

Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, who have been leading figures in the folk revival since the 1960s, discuss the artistry of the folk singer.


sian

Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM

The first programme, on jazz singers, was excellent (why only 15 minutes, though? It should have been an hour at least!).
I will be fascinated to hear the folk singers prog., although, it has to be said, that I'm not holding my breath. The BBC usually display appalling prejudice and ignorance when it comes to trad. song. Of course, MC and NW are neither prejudiced nor ignorant but it will be interesting to see how much they have allowed themselves to be 'nobbled' by the folk hating beeb.

Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan
From: JohnB
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 10:54 PM

Oh I see a warning, yes it says the 16th of January and that has not happened yet.
Yes That's why the Jazz programme is still on the Listen again bit.
Thanks for the Heads Up, JohnB feeling slightly more stupid than normal.

Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:09 PM

high-pitched nasal whining

Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:18 PM

The braying of drunken farmhands.