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The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Mark looks ahead to Radio 2's Virtual Folk Festival (on 1 August) and plays new music by Joachim Cooder, Finbar Furey, Shirley Collins and John Doyle.

Plus songs about museums, blackbirds, curses and planet earth.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 29 Jul 202021:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Fara

    Whisky You're The Devil

  • Finbar Furey & Áine Furey

    Blue Jewel In The Sky

  • Peggy Seeger

    The Mother

  • John Doyle

    The Coolaney Reel / The Winding Stair / Rossagh's Rambles

  • Polly Bolton

    Honeyblood

  • Jez Lowe

    The High Part Of The Town

  • Joachim Cooder

    Come Along Buddy

  • Harp and a Monkey

    The Ballad of Wisbech Museum

  • Capercaillie

    Mile Marbhaisg (A Thousand Curses)

  • Levellers

    Food Roof Family

  • Shirley Collins

    Barbara Allen

  • Sam Sweeney

    Steppy Downs Road

  • Ninebarrow

    The Hour Of The Blackbird (feat. Hart Voices & The Chantry Singers)

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 Jul 202021:00
    BBC Radio 2