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 23 November 2020
This week’s music
1. New York Love Song / Roving Crows
2. The Lady Leroy / The Battlefield Band
3. Seven Long Years / Nick Dow
4. The Cornwall Apprentice / Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll
5. The Cruel Sister / Ceoltóirí
6. Sweet Greens And Blues / Shirley Collins
7. The Boundary Stone / Reg Meuross
8. Repeal Of The Union / The Gloaming
9. The Whitby Fisher Lad / Tom McConville
10. Farewell To Tarwathie / Alex Campbell
11. Roisin The Bow / The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
12. Dublin In The Rare Oul Times / The Dubliners
13. Irish Session / Barry Dransfield
14. The Lass Of Humberside / Paul And Liz Davenport
15. The Bonney Lad / Megson
16. McBride's / Feast of Fiddles
17. Jenny of the Moor / Amsher
18. Philadelphia / Peter Bellamy
19. The Bristol Slaver / Show Of Hands
20. Ox Ploughing / Bob Lewis
21. Farmers Toast / Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher
22. 100 Days / Andrew Finn and Sean Gray
23. Peggy Gordon / Lucy Farrell & Jonny Kearney
24. Treadmill Song / Hanging Johnny / Shreds And Patches / Magpie Lane
25. Fill 'Em Up Rosie / The John Kirkpatrick Band
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.
