This Week's Playlist #117 - The Folkie edition with Heather S.
5 classic picks from a record store manager at day, musician at night.
Hello everyone!
This Week's Playlist - Season 3, Episode 13.
A new playlist for this week, with our guest of today, Heather, who’s giving us a focus on folk music, another genre I know nothing about :-)
I hope you enjoy her picks. See you next week.
TL;DR: I'm running a musical newsletter with a new guest sharing 5 songs each week.
There is a YouTube link for each of the songs on the cover, and here are the playlists for each streaming platform:
Guest of the week: Heather S
I love folk music, wherever it comes from, to play, dance, sing, or listen to, and to recommend. I play a melodeon and trombone and love how music brings people together, calms the mind, and is an escape and a challenge.
Folk dance tunes have a set pattern of repeated sections, often set to dance and always with history.
Put (a) Spring in your step with some mostly English tunes and embrace our music heritage the way other nations do.
1. Sharon Shannon - The Whitestrand Slig
She is an amazing Irish box and fiddle player who primarily plays with the right hand, only treble notes on her melodeon.
2. Swap - I'm Not Fed up with the Pacific Ocean
Some Swedish Celtic fusion for "I'm not fed up with the Pacific Ocean". I first heard in lockdown when attending a Zoom workshop from London with Richard Jones. Hypnotic and repetitive.
3. Brass Monkey - Lichfield Tattoo / The Radstack Jig / The Quickstep from 'the Battle of Prague'
Brass Monkey, joined by John Kirkpatrick and Martin Carthy, set comprising LichfieldTattoo, The Radstock Jig and Quickstep from the Battle of Prague. Just love way trombone brings it alive.
4. Rufus Wainwright - When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29) (ft. Florence Welch)
Rufus Wainwright and Florence Welch from the album “Shakespeare Sonnets”.
Sonnet Number 29 "When in disgrace with fortune and men 's eyes": a chance discovery heard on Late Junction. Listen to whole album. So creative and original.
5. Boldwood - The Shepherd And Shepherdess (2007)
Very lively fiddling of a Playford 17 century dance tune. Why no trombone? That comes much later.
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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