Classic Folk with Mike Norris
Former English Folk Dance and Song Society Chairman (2006–2011) and long-standing member Mike Norris hosts our weekly folk radio programme.
Mike explores a wide range of folk and acoustic music from the UK and abroad – from rarely heard archive and field recordings to the very latest releases.
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Monday 28 September 2020
This week’s music
1. The Keach in the Creel / Megson
2. Autumn Leaves / The Magpie Arc
3. Black Girl / Snakefarm
4. The Night Visiting Song / / Norman Kennedy
5. Mary And The Soldier / Judy Dunlop & John Scaife
6. Gone Fishing / Flook
7. Sunken Cemetery / Laura Mulcahy
8. Once I Had A Sweetheart / Pentangle
9. Bonny May / June Tabor
10. Maui / Johnny Collins, Dave Webber & Pete Watkinson
11. Seafarers / Roger Watson
12. Nauticas at Sea / Nauticas
13. What A Voice / Jeannie Robertson
14. Banks of the Dee / William & Nancy / Saul Rose
15. William's Sweetheart / Rosie Hood
16. Johnnie Gallagher / Kevin Mitchell
17. Repeal Of The Union / The Gloaming
18. Suzanne / Leonard Cohen
19. Frozen Fields / Jerry Douglas with Alison Krauss & Union Station
20. Lady Diamond / The Long Hill Ramblers
21. The Reddleman / Freshly Ground
22. Ashes To The Wind / Okavanga
23. The Deserter / Mischief Afoot
24. Wanton Brown [Trad] / Rakoczy
25. Westlin' Winds / Kris Drever
26. Farewell, Farewell / Gilbert Paeffgen, Joe McHugh & Shirley Grimes
The presenter: Mike Norris
Mike’s passion for folk music spans decades; from first learning to play the melodeon and singing shanties at school, to running folk festivals and gigs.
A teenager during the 1960s, Mike was heavily influenced by protest song and folk-rock popularity (Bob Dylan, the Copper Family, Joan Baez, Fairport Convention etc), as well as the tail end of the folk-song revival shaped by The Watersons, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Shirley Collins, Woody Guthrie and many more.
Interesting fact: The hospital where Mike was born, in Portsmouth, grew out of the workhouse where George Gardiner collected more than 100 songs in the early 1900s.
