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Mayday :: Alison Brackenbury

There are more songs in the folk canon about May than any other month. This week, Genevieve is playing a few of them.
Last week, Gloucestershire poet Alison Brackenbury was one of the performers at Much Wenlock Poetry Festival. Genevieve took the opportunity to talk to her.

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Sun 1 May 201618:00
BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire

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Music Played

  • Cloudstreet

    Dance Up the Sun

    • Dance Up the Sun.
    • Own Label.
    • CDST04.

  • Maddy Prior

    Padstow May Day Song

    • Ballads and Candles.
    • Park Records.
    • PRKCD54.

  • The Night Watch

    Miri it is

    • The Ambassadors.
    • Own Label.
    • TNW03.

  • The Bailey Sisters

    Stretford and Northern May Song

    • After Silence, Music.
    • Own Label.
    • PINKFIZZ002.

  • James Findlay

    The Claudy Banks

    • The Liberty to Choose.
    • Fellside.
    • FECD257.

  • Laura Cortese

    For Catherine

    • Into the Dark.
    • Own Label.
    • LC1.

  • The Village Quire

    One May Morning Early

    • The Good Old Way.
    • Own Label.
    • VQCD2.

  • Pete Morton

    The Lincolnshire Poacher

    • Trespass.
    • Harbourtown.
    • HARCD037.

  • The Watersons

    Hal-an-Tow

    • Frost and Fire.
    • Topic.
    • TSCD136.

  • Mary Humphreys & Anahata

    May Song

    • A Baker's Dozen.
    • Treewind.
    • TWD014.

  • Laura Cortese

    I am the House

    • Into the Dark.
    • Own Label.
    • LC1.

  • Spiers & Boden

    Dawn Chorus

    • Bellow.
    • Fellside.
    • FECD175.

  • Whapweasel

    Mayday

    • Colour.
    • Own Label.
    • WW0007.

  • Jane and Amanda Thelfall

    Searching for Lambs

    • Gown of Green.
    • Beehive Music.
    • WBCD002.

  • Beguildy

    The Difference

    • The Mary Webb Songs.
    • Own Label.
    • B1.

  • June Tabor

    A Place Called England

    • A Quiet Eye.
    • Topic.
    • TSCD510.

  • Fernhill

    Bredon Hill

    • Llatai.
    • Beautiful Jo.
    • BEJOCD23.

  • Waterson:Carthy

    May Song

    • Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man.
    • Topic.
    • TSCD562.

  • ALAW

    Pan O'wn y Gwanwyn

  • The Night Watch

    Sumeris Icumen in

    • The Ambassadors.
    • Own Label.
    • TNW03.

  • Lal Waterson

    May Butterfly

    • Teach Me To Be A Summer's Morning.
    • Fledg'ling Records.
    • FLED 3095.

  • Brass Monkey

    The Swinton May Song

    • Flame Of Fire.
    • Topic Records?.
    • TSCD550.

  • Bellowhead

    If You Will Not Have Me, You May Let Me Go

    • Bellowhead Live - The Farewell Tour.
    • Navigator Records.
    • NAVIGATOR095X.

  • Loreena McKennitt

    On A Bright May Morning

    • The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
    • Quinlan Road ?.
    • QRCD114.

  • Spiers & Boden

    Jack Robinson/Argiers/Old Tom of Oxford

    • Bellow.
    • Fellside.
    • FECD175.

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 May 201618:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire