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28 Jan 16 - 11:05 AM (#3768793) Subject: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting Folk Connections over this weekend, 29/30/31 January. The content is wonderful, but the branding is haphazard - and the publicity is minimal. Folk Connections Half a dozen programmes have been specially commissioned, but the great majority of programmes over the weekend have links - of varying degree - to folk music. Appalachian Trail Here is a list of programmes for the series, and some leading up to it too. Thursday 28 January 7:30pm BBC Radio 3 Radio 3 In Concert BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Recorded at Celtic Connections at the weekend 7:30 Liam O'Flynn, with his colleagues Arty McGlynn and Rod McVey, performs from his orchestrated repertoire, including The Brendan Voyage by Shaun Davey (excerpts) 8:30 Bela Fleck performs his own The Imposter Banjo Concerto, commissioned by the Nashville Symphony and premiered in 2011 Friday 29 January 10:30am Radio 3 Music in Time Delius's Brigg Fair The focus is on the Modern period and Delius's English Rhapsody, Brigg Fair. 'Brigg Fair', the folksong, was 'collected' by Grainger in 1905 after a musical festival in the North Lincolnshire town of Brigg. When Delius heard Grainger's own arrangement of the song for solo tenor and chorus, he asked his permission to use it as the basis for this magnificent orchestral theme and variations. 2:00pm BBC Radio 3 Afternoon on 3 Penny Gore pre-empts Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend with a concert recorded in November at Chichester Festival Theatre. The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by the folk musicians Nancy Kerr and James Fagan in a specially arranged programme featuring folk-inspired orchestral music by the likes of Holst, Moeran and Britten alongside traditional song and dance tunes. BBC Radio 3 Folk Connections weekend; Celebrating folk music and the influence of folk on classical music Friday 29 January 4:30pm In Tune Folk Connections Special Suzy Klein presents a special edition of In Tune live from Cecil Sharp House to launch Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend celebrating folk music and exploring how folk music has inspired composers through the centuries. Alongside traditional folk song there will be music influenced by folk, including the songs of George Butterworth in the year which marks the centenary of his death at the Somme. 11:00pm World on 3 Folk Connections Lopa Kothari presents music from Calan, Bella Hardy and Afro Celt Sound System from Celtic Connections at the CCA in Glasgow - performances by leading musicians from Scotland, Wales and England as part of Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend. Saturday 30 January 7:00am Breakfast Tom McKinney including music for Folk Connections 10:30am Record Review Recent recordings of British folk music 12:15pm Music Matters Debating the appropriation of folk music in the classical repertoire with Sandra Kerr 1:00pm Saturday Classics chosen by Kathryn Tickell 2/2 (Available on demand 23 January Kathryn Tickell 1/2) ***3:00pm Folk Connections 1/3 Voice of the People Continuing Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, Verity Sharp chairs a discussion about the history, origins and future of folk song collecting in the UK. With live performances from Emily Portman, Fay Hield and Thomas McCarthy. ***9:45pm Between the Ears Return to Brigg Fair Jim Moray bends sound and time to recreate the encounter between composer Percy Grainger and elderly farm bailiff Joseph Taylor which marked a major turning point in the history of traditional folk music. 10:15pm Hear and Now Modern Muses Beamish's folk-infused double concerto Seavaigers 12:00 midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz The folk-jazz connection from Lead Belly to Dizzy Gillespie Sunday 31 January 7:00am Breakfast Tom McKinney with folk-inspired classical music 9:00am Sunday Morning including Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger and Beethoven's settings of Scottish and Irish songs 12:00 noon Private Passions Michael Berkley welcomes Shirley Collins She tells Michael about her Sussex childhood, her passion for Baroque music, and the pleasure she's finding in singing again after a gap of more than thirty years. And we hear Shirley singing with her late sister and collaborator Dolly. ***1:00pm Folk Connections 2/3 Sam Lee and Friends in concert from Celtic Connections 2:00pm The Early Music Show Lucy Skeaping explores the influence of folk music on early music 4:00pm The Choir with guest Paul Sartin and his own Loft Singers 5:30pm Words and Music Village Minstrel - Celebrating John Clare Texts and music inspired by John Clare's poetry. With folk music from Paddy Tunney and Fred Jordan, singer-songwriters Vikki Clayton and Chris Wood, fiddler Giles Lewin and The Imagined Village, plus works by Britten, Haydn, Gurney, Tippett, Thomas and Linley. ***6:45pm Sunday Feature Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail Andy Kershaw follows Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail through Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, hearing some of the songs he collected both in their original versions and in present-day interpretations in specially-recorded sessions from Martin Carthy, Brian Peters and more. 7:30pm Radio 3 in Concert Transatlantic Sessions concert from Celtic Connections ***11:50pm Folk Connections 3/3 Verity Sharp and Bruce MacGregor join the Festival after-show party, sample more highlights from Celtic Connections, and contrast the folk scenes in England and Scotland. Radio 3 this week |
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28 Jan 16 - 02:14 PM (#3768850) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Felipa thanks - I've seen your message in time to listen tonight |
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28 Jan 16 - 02:28 PM (#3768855) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs Many thanks for your efforts in all this. |
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28 Jan 16 - 02:40 PM (#3768860) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp Thank you. Tonight's concert has just started - and sounds wonderful! Lots more to come! |
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28 Jan 16 - 05:41 PM (#3768918) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Marje Wow, I would never have spotted all this stuff, thank you so much! |
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29 Jan 16 - 03:16 AM (#3768998) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST Friday 29 January 10:30am Radio 3 Music in Time Delius's Brigg Fair The focus is on the Modern period and Delius's English Rhapsody, Brigg Fair. 'Brigg Fair', the folksong, was 'collected' by Grainger in 1905 after a musical festival in the North Lincolnshire town of Brigg. When Delius heard Grainger's own arrangement of the song for solo tenor and chorus, he asked his permission to use it as the basis for this magnificent orchestral theme and variations. 2:00pm BBC Radio 3 Afternoon on 3 The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by the folk musicians Nancy Kerr and James Fagan in a specially arranged programme featuring folk-inspired orchestral music by the likes of Holst, Moeran and Britten alongside traditional song and dance tunes. We used to visit my Granny in Brigg every half term. She was living there when Percy Grainger first came to the North Lincolnshire Musical Festival in 1905 - and she may well have attended it too. I never thought to ask her. In their concert, James sings Brigg Fair, while Nancy sings Fol the day, her tribute to Joseph Taylor. Just wonderful! |
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29 Jan 16 - 06:55 AM (#3769030) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,matt milton For me, the pick is Sunday's edition of Private Passions - featuring Shirley Collins. Can't wait. |
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29 Jan 16 - 07:06 AM (#3769034) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,Peter C The lack of publicity for this reminds me that there are only two theories of management - the conspiracy theory, and the cock up theory. (Actually some people only think there is one theory - the conspiracy cock up - but that is another subject!)Under the conspiracy theory, the BBC are reacting to continued pressure from people like us to put on some folk music at last, then can say, well no one listened, so no demand! Under the cock up theory, well it is just a cock up! |
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29 Jan 16 - 07:38 AM (#3769057) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,DaveRo GUEST,Peter C wrote: The lack of publicity for this...What do you expect the BBC to be doing that they're not doing? Adverts on TV? There's a lack of publicity for radio generally. We've recently gone back - after some decades - to buying Radio Times, because other listing mags have either dropped radio in the face of more and more TV channels or are useless - they'll say 'composer of the week' without saying who. The BBC website is good, but to scan the week ahead I prefer a listings mag. But the posts here are welcome - thanks for those. |
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29 Jan 16 - 08:00 AM (#3769066) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,Peter C I also take Radio Times! But did not realise the scope and content of this festival. Adverts on TV - why not? BBC do it for other things! |
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29 Jan 16 - 08:38 AM (#3769085) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST Rosie Hood tweeted: @RosieHood Here @cecilsharphouse for @BBCRadio3 @BBCInTune this afternoon! @OllieKing @TheDovetailTrio |
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29 Jan 16 - 08:46 AM (#3769089) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs Leveret were superb on Late Junction - 25 minutes of performance, that's what I call a session, I have it playing in my car today! |
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29 Jan 16 - 09:25 AM (#3769094) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp Presumably, the BBC wants Folk Connections to retain its classical music listeners and attract new listeners to Radio 3. I don't think the publicity for Folk Connections reached most people with an interest in folk, except those who are already regular Radio 3 listeners. There are some indications of integration in the programmes and announcements on Radio 3. But I'm afraid Folk Connections is unlikely to attract many new listeners to either Radio 3 or folk music. That is a shame, because it has a lot to offer. But I shall enjoy it! |
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29 Jan 16 - 12:11 PM (#3769128) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Steve Shaw Very nice stuff on Afternoon On 3 today (Friday) from Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. Some unaccompanied singing, some duet, some with fiddle and plucked thing (bouzouki? Come on, I'm a harmonica man!) and some with the BBC Concert Orchestra. We even got the Archers theme during their break! Lovely, fresh, flexible voices without a hint of affectation. Get it on iPlayer! That's Radio 3 by the way. |
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29 Jan 16 - 12:15 PM (#3769131) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST A second interview or were they reusing the Late Junction interview from Tuesday? |
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29 Jan 16 - 12:56 PM (#3769149) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Steve Shaw If that was to me, it wasn't an interview. It was a concert. |
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29 Jan 16 - 03:40 PM (#3769175) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST Different then, Tuesday was more like Desert Island Discs. |
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29 Jan 16 - 04:43 PM (#3769185) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST Steve - and anyone else - you can encourage Radio 3 if you like a programme. You can air your views by contacting Points of View. For opinions and comments on BBC Radio output use the Feedback programme page. If you'd like to tell us how much you enjoyed a BBC programme, or send us any appreciative comments, you can do so by using the 'Contact Us' link below. If you would like to contact a BBC programme have a look at the Contact a programme FAQ. Not all programmes can be contacted directly, but the FAQ will help point you in the right direction. Alternatively you can use the 'Contact Us' link to send us your comments or ask a question. |
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29 Jan 16 - 04:47 PM (#3769186) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Steve Shaw Well, Guest, you're talking to a bloke who's had his name read out 21 times by Rob and Sarah for getting the daily challenge right! :-) |
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29 Jan 16 - 04:48 PM (#3769187) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp Leveret Hare-raising! |
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30 Jan 16 - 06:44 AM (#3769287) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Felipa I'm listening to bbc radio 3 a lot this weekend, because of the special programming. |
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30 Jan 16 - 07:28 AM (#3769296) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp Radio 3 continuity announcers say, "For full details, see the Folk Connections website." But there isn't a front page! At least, I can't find one. There are pages for individual programmes - with lots of interesting clips - but there is no description of the whole weekend. Very strange. Coming up next in Music Matters, 12:15 onwards Folk Connections: Folk and classical connections As part of Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, Tom Service talks to folk musician Sandra Kerr, classical music writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson, and music historian & ethnographer Philip Bohlman about the boundaries between folk and classical genres and the appropriation of folk music into classical repertoire. |
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30 Jan 16 - 07:32 AM (#3769297) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs All available for download as aac 320kbps - with appropriate free software!!! |
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30 Jan 16 - 07:58 AM (#3769304) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,Joe G Radio 3 is the first place I would look for folk music content on the radio - there is a lot of it in programmes such as Late Junction and World on 3. I scour the Radio Times each week to what is coming up - only listings magazine worth considering! |
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30 Jan 16 - 09:05 AM (#3769323) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: FreddyHeadey Henryp "...But there isn't a front page! At least, I can't find one." In some ways the BBC web pages are brilliant, in other ways they baffle me too. The one that looks like the front page http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070wx5d is only useful in giving an episodes tab http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070wx5d/episodes/guide The other thing they do is so sometimes have a 'contact' button on a page but when there isn't a button they never say "sorry you can't contact the producers of this programme". As I can never quite remember where the contact button should be I can spend ages looking for it. Here. |
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30 Jan 16 - 07:21 PM (#3769477) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: MoorleyMan You're right on both counts, Guest Joe G! Radio 3 does a lot for the promotion of the spectrum of folk music, presenting it in an informed context and a sensible, non-sensational manner while not losing sight of its entertainment value. The difficulty of "signposting" individual musical items is recognised, though, and the various programmes' playlists go some way towards addressing this. |
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31 Jan 16 - 08:05 AM (#3769581) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp I doubt we'll hear anything else as moving as A Denying (The Blacksmith) by Shirley Collins, and her sister Dolly. |
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31 Jan 16 - 08:38 AM (#3769590) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Continuity Jones Wonderful to hear all this on BBC R3. I've listened in to maybe four of the programmes and they've all been top notch. |
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31 Jan 16 - 09:03 AM (#3769597) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs More live music from Celtic Connections on BBC Radio Ulster "Folk Club" 7pm this evening Here is the webstream for high quality at 320kbps http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_ulster.m3u8 |
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31 Jan 16 - 09:12 AM (#3769600) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Steve Shaw Anthems In Eden (the song cycle, not the whole CD), by Shirley and Dolly, has long been on my list of eight desert island discs. Not forgetting the contribution of the much-loved, much-lamented, wonderful David Munrow. It was lovely to hear Shirley on Private Passions. She mischievously challenged her interviewer to find an example of a Handel piece sung by an untrained voice! |
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01 Feb 16 - 03:09 AM (#3769781) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs And so it ends, now I have about 20 hours of recordings to sort out! |
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01 Feb 16 - 01:59 PM (#3769915) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs Crikey, it's 38 hours !!! |
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01 Feb 16 - 03:25 PM (#3769935) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,henryp Every half term, we used to stay with my Granny in Brigg. And Brigg Fair cropped up four times! Ruairidh Greig talked about Joseph Taylor and the White Hare was mentioned in Nancy Kerr's song; Though the end of time is long before us We are hunted like the Oldham Hare Let us sing like it's the fifth of August And our love is way beyond the fair Fol the day-O, love is sweet-O Seeds are blooming underneath our feet-O From the fields through city streets-O Like a Joseph Taylor melody |
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02 Feb 16 - 02:47 AM (#3770007) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs Pity that a set list has not been posted for the Folk Connections "In Tune" programme. |
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02 Feb 16 - 06:55 AM (#3770047) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST @Bonzo3legs Contrary to Mudcat myth most of the world doesn't even know that this site exists. It is very easy to contact the BBC, Google is your friend! |
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02 Feb 16 - 08:05 AM (#3770071) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs Ah thanks I might try that. |
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02 Feb 16 - 12:02 PM (#3770120) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: FreddyHeadey re Folk Connections "In Tune" programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06xyqr5 00:00:30 Dovetail Trio*...... - Banks of Mossy 00:05:40 Florilegium........ - Ellen O'.....? 00:12:00 Florilegium........ Teleman - trio Am 00:15:15 Peter Savidge & David Owen Norris ...... Vaughan Williams - Linden Lea 00:22:45 Peter Savidge & David Owen Norris ...... Cecil Sharp - Incidental Music from Midsummer Night's Dream - Roses 00:25:30 Belshazzar's Feast...... John Playford - Mundesse & Gathering Peascods 00:32:50 Rosie Hood & Ollie King... - William Taylor 00:40:30 Emily Portman, Rosie Hood & Ollie King..... - Eilmer the Flying Monk 00:45:05 Peter Savidge & David Owen Norris...... George Butterworth - The Lads In Their hundreds 00:51:00 Peter Savidge & David Owen Norris ...... George Butterworth - Come My Own One (this was actually quite straight) 00:53:10 Florilegium........ Thomas Baltzar - Variations on John con______? 01:01:20 Florilegium........ Francesco Barsanti - Scots Aires 01:06:40 Belshazzar's Feast...... - Abbots Bromley 01:13:20 Belshazzar's Feast...... Cisely Fox Smith & Sarah Morgan - Home Lad Home ( href="@displaysong.cfm?SongID=10098">Homeward) 01:20:30 David Owen Norris...... Butterworth/Grainger(/Sharp) - Helston Ferry, Shepherd's Hey 01:23:10 RLPO........... Butterworth - Engish Idyl no 1 01:37:30 Florilegium........ from a Bolivian folk tune - "January" 01:43:00 Peter Savidge & David Owen Norris ...... Britten - O Waly, Waly 01:47:50 Dovetail Trio*...... - Two Magicians 01:56:40 Belshazzar's Feast...... - If I Was A Blackbird *Rosie Hood, Matt Quinn, Jamie Roberts |
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02 Feb 16 - 12:47 PM (#3770131) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby Enjoyed everything I heard, so thanks Henry for giving us the heads-up on this. Would that it could the start of a regular programming even if on a lesser but more frequent scale. |
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02 Feb 16 - 04:37 PM (#3770188) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: Bonzo3legs Many thanks FreddyHeady, I'm not seeing that set list when I go into the programme page! |
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02 Feb 16 - 05:55 PM (#3770200) Subject: RE: BBC Folk Connections January 2016 From: FreddyHeadey B3l ....quiet afternoon at work.... and it deserved another listen. I'm not sure about the spellings/timings... |