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The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Mark listens to Irish lilting - singing a tune without words - by Paddy Tunney and new duo Absolute Lilt.

There are classics by Nadia Cattouse and Davy Graham in connection with a new exhibition at the V&A East Museum called The Music Is Black: A British Story.

Tunes include a new single by Punch Brothers and a polka by The Gathering Quartet, and there's a Nic Jones song performed by Sam Carter.

Produced in Salford by Pomona Audio for BBC Radio 2.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 3 Jun 202621:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Maz O’Connor

    Just a Little Game to Play

  • Trad.

    The Game Of Cards

    Performer: Maddy Prior & June Tabor.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Adam Holmes

    Only Oceans

  • Absolute Lilt

    P Stands for Paddy

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Paddy Tunney

    Lilting: The Bird in the Bush / The Sligo Maid / The Longford Collector / The Sailor's Bonnet

    • Smithsonian Folkways.

  • Punch Brothers

    Song of the Water Kelpie (Unsung)

    • Nonesuch.

  • The Waterboys

    Fisherman's Blues

    • Ensign.

  • Mari Mathias

    Y Morgen

  • Nadia Cattouse

    Travel On (Live in 1969)

    • RCA Victor.

  • Davey Graham

    Yellow Bird

    • Pye.

  • Sam Carter

    Billy Don't You Weep For Me (Live)

    • Captain Records.

  • Maisy Owen

    The Rest of Me

    • Tompkins Square Records.

  • The Gathering Quartet

    Missy of the Mhor / Polka in the Palace

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Jun 202621:00
    BBC Radio 2