Podcast appearances and mentions of Kathryn Tickell

Tunes from the brand new Cousin Harley CD, and forthcoming album by NL's Quote The Raven, as well as new music from Stephen Fearing, Kathryn Tickell, Tara Breen, Morgan Toney, Jason Isbell, Melisande, and Dreamers Circus. Aslo a feature on Malian kora virtuoso Ballake Sissoko, and previews of upcoming shows by the likes of Steve Dawson, Aleksi Campagne, Collage Trad, Hildaland, Coig, Quote The Raven, Kiran Ahluwalia, and more, much more.

On this month's show, Matthew is joined by Seth Lakeman and Kathryn Tickell who are both re-examining their past in new albums. Seth marks 20 years since his breakthrough album Kitty Jay by releasing a live version recorded at Dartmoor Prison, while Kathryn has been re-imagining her album On Kielder Side – recorded forty years ago when she was just 16. There's also music from Laura Marling, Christy Moore, Fionn Regan, Grace Petrie and Kate Rusby.---We rely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either...Become a member and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfootOr just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfootSign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.comFollow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot---Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Kathryn Tickell talks about her new album Return to Kielderside, which reinterprets and updates the tunes and themes of her debut album, On Kielderside, which she released 40 years ago at the age of sixteen. Nihal is joined by Amrou Al-Kadhi, whose directorial debut feature film Layla tells the story of a British-Palestinian drag queen navigating life and love in London. As Massive Attack prepares to headline in Liverpool this month, Robert Del Naja, aka 3D, discusses the band's attempts to become carbon neutral with Mark Donne, organiser of their forthcoming Act 1.5 gigs, and Professor Carly McLachlan, who researches the environmental impact of music tours and festivals. Presenter: Nihal Arthanayake Producer: Ekene Akalawu

JB with some great sounds from the likes of Vair, the Urban Folk Quartet, Imar and a lovely lament from Kathryn Tickell

The Crossing No.68 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in October 2024, featuring the 1999 album “Debatable Lands” from Kathryn Tickell. TRACK LISTING: Homeless - Paul Simon; Mupfumi - John Chibadura & Tembo Brothers; Man in a Shed - Nick Drake; Capernaum - Kris Drever; Our Kate / The Welcome Home - Kathryn Tickell; Hut on Staffen Island / Random - Kathryn Tickell; Liberty - Dave Ellis & Book Howard; Barrack Street - Nic Jones; Farewell, Farewell - Fairport Convention; Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull; Road to the North / Hanging Bridge / All at Sea - Kathryn Tickell; The Return - Kathryn Tickell; Black Country Woman - Led Zeppelin; Shelter From the Storm - Bob Dylan.

Matthew's guest on this month's show is the wonderful Jenny Sturgeon talking about her epic 864km walk from the Scottish borders to Cape Wrath - and sharing the evocative sounds she recorded along the way. There's also a live performance from The Breath filmed at Cornwall's spectacular Minack Theatre, plus music from Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, John Smith, Sam Carter, Katherine Priddy, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Tumbling Paddies and Richard Thompson.---We rely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either...Become a member and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfootOr just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfootSign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.comFollow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot---Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Resting between Folk Festivals, JB pays music old and new from the likes of Altan, The Incredible String Band, Kathryn Tickell and a new disc from Chris Bannister

JB with a great mix of all the best in Folk from the likes of Kathryn Tickell and the Darkness, Bellowhead and Christine Collister with Olive Knight.

Great sounds from JB's deck from the likes of Ryan Young, Chris Wood, Kathryn Tickell and Bellowhead

In the Official Folk Albums Chart of the Year Show 2023, Matthew Bannister counts down the biggest selling and most streamed folk albums of the year. There are guest appearances by Sean Cooney of the Young'Uns, Kathryn Tickell, Shirley Collins and Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, plus exclusive performances from James Yorkston and Nina Persson, Angeline Morrison and Katherine Priddy. Matthew also features highlights of the December chart, including an interview with Jim Moray and music from Spell Songs, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden and Kate Rusby. --- We rely entirely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either... Become a patron and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfoot Or just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfoot Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot --- Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/

JB jigs into the new year with sounds from the likes of Imar, Kathryn Tickell and Davy Knowles!

Abrimos con músicas con sabores británicos y célticos, para continuar con otras novedades europeas que nos llevan por Escandinavia y Europa Central, pasando por Noruega, Serbia, Hungria y recalando más largamente en Eslovaquia, con el recopilatorio World music from Slovakia: Best of 2019-2023. Cerramos aventurándonos en la Ruta de la Seda, con una curiosa conexión vasco-kazaja. We open with music with British and Celtic flavors, to continue with other European new releases that take us through Scandinavia and Central Europe, passing through Norway, Serbia, Hungary and stopping longer in Slovakia, with the compilation World music from Slovakia: Best of 2019-2023. We close by venturing on the Silk Road, with a particular Basque-Kazakh connection. • Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Clogstravaganza - Cloud horizons • Roehind - Abu chuibhl' - Buile • Sinikka Langeland - The love - Wind and sun • Nogaband - Kamenické fogaše - World music from Slovakia: Best of 2019-2023 [V.A.] • Sisa Michalidesová - Dirka - World music from Slovakia: Best of 2019-2023 [V.A.] • Martin Geišberg - Na majetok je to - World music from Slovakia: Best of 2019-2023 [V.A.] • Lenhart Tapes - Vodu brala [+Tijana Stanković] - Dens • Napfonat - Csendesen! - Harmatcseppben él a világ bennem • Ibantuta - Adai - The musical threads of the Silk Roads • (Ibantuta - Tamanno - The musical threads of the Silk Roads) 📸 Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening's new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone flute, a sistrum – very old Egyptian instrument - and lyrics based on an inscription in Latin carved on a stone in Northumberland nearly 2 millennia ago. Kathryn talks to Samira about this ancient Northumbrian futurism and plays her smallpipes, live. We remember the film director Terrence Davis, perhaps best known for the film Distant Voices, who has died aged 77. Samira spoke to him for Front Row last year, about his Netflix drama Benediction, which followed the life of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Samira talks to Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, essayist and editor. Her latest offering Roman Stories marks a return to shorter fiction, presenting snapshots of a city and its unnamed residents in flux. Today the Heritage Fund announces nine ‘Heritage Places' across the UK- the first of twenty to receive a share of £200 million in National Lottery funding over the next 10 years to support local heritage. We hear from Eilish McGuinness, Heritage Fund Chief Executive about how the money will be spent and from Eirwen Hopkins, founder of the heritage group Rich History in Neath Port Talbot, one of the nine places to receive the cash injection. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Olivia Skinner

This month's Official Folk Albums Chart Show from Folk on Foot features an interview with the wonderful Northumbrian pipe and fiddle player Kathryn Tickell. There's also music from Ninebarrow, The Gentle Good, Daphne's Flight, The Melrose Quartet, The Tumbling Paddies, Rachel Sermanni and Lankum. --- We rely entirely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either... Donate to the Folk on Foot Big Walk 2023: folkonfoot.com/bigwalk Become a patron and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfoot Or just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfoot Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot --- Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/

1. (Intro) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement)2. Lone Piñon : La De Mariano from the CD Cuatro Vidas (Jalopy)3. Viv & Riley : Flashing Lights from the CD Imaginary People (Free Dirt) 4. Melrose Quartet : Make The World Anew from the CD Make The World Anew (Melrose Quartet)5. Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening : One Night In Moaña from the CD Cloud Horizons (Resilient)6. Leon Keïta : Domanin from the LP/DL Analog Africa Dance Edition 16 (Analog Africa)7. Aron & The Jeri Jeri Band feat. Baaba Maal : Teddoungal from the DL EP Teddoungal (Aron & The Jeri Jeri Band)8. Will Allen : Dartford Camp / Up The Sides And Down The Middle from the CD English Fiddle II (Will Allen)9. Blazin' Fiddles : The Windmill from the CD XXV (Blazin')10. Angeline Morrison : The Three Ravens from the CD Sing Yonder 1 (Sing Yonder)11. Jack Rutter : Shepherd On The Mountain from the CD This Is Something Constant (Jack Rutter)12. Aga Khan Master Musicians : Illi from the CD Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways)13. Syriana : Law Inta Kont Hina from the CD 1325 Ibn Battutah (Grand Duc/ Real World)14. Rüüt : Kadrile from the CD Kiriküüt (Nordic Notes)15. Emmi Kuittinen : Hyva Ol from the CD Surun Synty (Nordic Notes)16. Bramly Scott & Dave Rigg : Some Of These Days from the CD Done Told Everybody (Bramly Scott & Dave Rigg)17. Duffy Power : City Women from the 3CD Box Shake That Thing! (Strawberry/ Cherry Red)18. Natascha Rogers : Sacred Night  from the DL single (No Format!)19. Matjé : Cumbia Fanée from the CD Sur Mon Dos (D'À Côté)20. You Are Wolf : I'll Weave My Love A Garland from the CD hare / hunter / moth / ghost (Firecrest)21. Frankie Archer : Oxford City from the DL single (Frankie Archer)22. Maire Ni Chathasaigh : The Fisherman's Hornpipe / The Cuckoo's Nest from the CD The New Strung Harp (Old Bridge Music)23. Hildaland : Coffee & Incense from the DL album Sule Skerry (Adhyâropa)24. Sangit feat. Sadio Sidibé : Tefi Cabara from the CD Ooroo (Riverboat)25. Onipa feat. Dele Sosimi : Marching Over from the CD Off The Grid (Real World)26. MichaelAnnJillo : Ploughman Boy from the CD I'll Give You One More As You Go (ReZound)27. Julie Atkin : The Tanyard Side from the CD Blackbird (Atkin)28. Frode Haltli : Trippar from the CD Avant Folk Triptyk (Jazzland)29. Lakvar : Daniova Mama / Balkanum Reliquit from the CD Fiction & Folklore (CPL Music)30. Genticorum : Le Persuadeur from the CD Au Coeur De L'aube (Genticorum)You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.comPodwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud.Follow the links for previous podcasts.

British folk musicians Kathryn Tickell, Laura Cannell, Amy Thatcher and Ruth Lyon discuss their musical and personal identities, the music they made when they were younger, and whether or not place affects the music they create. Kathryn Tickell is from the North Tyne Valley of Northumberland and comes from a musical family of pipers, singers, fiddlers and accordion players. She took up the Northumbrian small pipes at the age of nine, and began learning tunes from old shepherd friends and family. Her work has evolved to traverse jazz, and music from around the world, to large-scale orchestral works. She has released 15 of her own albums to date, and has recorded and performed with Evelyn Glennie, the London Sinfonietta, Sting, and many others. In 2015 she was awarded an OBE for services to folk music. Laura Cannell is a composer and violinist whose music straddles the worlds of experimental, folk, chamber and medieval music. She came to prominence with her debut album, Quick Sparrows over the Black Earth, and is known for her compositions that draw on the emotional influences of landscapes, and explore the spaces between ancient and experimental music. She's also the founder of independent record label Brawl Records, and is curator of the Modern Ritual performance series. Amy Thatcher is one of the UK's leading folk accordionists, who's based in the North East of England. Her first album, Paper Bird, was recorded when she was just 16 years old, and she released her first album proper, Solo, in 2019. She's worked with the likes of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Sting. Ruth Lyon is a folk and chamber-pop artist who has established herself as a key member of the music scene in Newcastle, UK. She grew up in the countryside of the North York Moors, inheriting a love of the outdoors as well as a sense of melancholy from the landscape, something that is instilled in the music she creates. Her most recent EP, Direct Debit to Vogue, showcases her soulful vocals and her witty, raw lyricism, expressing the power in fragility and the beauty in imperfection.

It's all about the women of folk as JB has a special highlighting some of the best in the business, such as Kathryn Tickell, Isla Callister, Shirley Collins and Joni Mitchell

1. (Intro) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement)2. Eliza Carthy Trio : Go From My Window / Whitefriars Hornpipe from the DL Conversations We've Had Before (Hem Hem)3. This Is The Kit : More Change from the CD Careful Of Your Keepers (Rough Trade)4. Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz feat. Angeline Morrison : The Suffolk Miracle from the CD Nothing But Green Willow (Topic)5. Jim Causley : Blackingstone Ravens from the CD Songs Of Dartmoor (Hroc Music)6. Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman : Gone So Long from the LP/DL Lady Of The Lake (Jalopy)7. Hog-eyed Man : Boone's Wagoner from the CD Kicked Up A Devil Of A Row (Old Time Tiki Parlour)8. Charlotte Greig : Gathering Rushes from the LP/DL Night Visiting Songs (Harmonium Music)9. You Are Wolf : Girl As Wolf from the CD Hare Hunter Moth Ghost (Firecrest)10. Mikey Kenney : The Old Haile Hornpipe from the DL Northwestern English Fiddle (Mikey Kenney)11. Salvatore Pace & Alessandro Gaudio : Passione Meridionale from the CD Passione Meridionale (Visage)12. Érol Josué : Pelerinaj Fla Vodoun from the CD Peleri-naj (Village Hut)13. Jantra : Homoom from the DL/LP Synthesised Sudan (Ostinato)14. Mokoomba : Makisi from the CD Tusona: Tracings In The Sand (Outhere)15. Ninebarrow : Cast To The Waves from the CD The Colour Of Night (Winding Track)16. Harp & A Monkey : Skylarks from the DL single (Harp & A Monkey)17. Ben McElroy : Where We Don't Go from the CD Beacons Of The Wilderness (Ben McElroy)18. Mike Cooper : Lord Franklin from the CD Milan Live Acoustic 2018 (Paradise Of Bachelors)19. Paolo Angeli : Nijar (Sidra) from the CD Nijar (ReR)20. Kevin Breit & The Henrys : Bloom from the CD Bloom (Kevin Breit & The Henrys)21. Angharad Jenkins & Patrick Rimes : Gyrru'r Ychen from the CD Amrwd (Ty Cerdd)22. Rónan Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly : Calling All Angels from the CD The Beautiful Road (Claddagh)23. Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening : Long For Light from the CD Cloud Horizons (Resilient)24. Alistair Anderson : Pies In The Parish House Set from the CD Hethpool Linn (White Meadow)25. Lizzie Nunnery & Vidar Norheim : I Saw The City from the CD I Saw The City (Red Thread)26. Plúirín Na mBan : Two Brothers from the CD Female Rambling Sailor (Pluirin Na mBan)27. Claire Hastings : Minnie O'Shirva's Cradle Song from the CD Lullabies From Scotland (Luckenbooth)28. No Mad : A l'aube from the CD Des Oiseaux La Nuit (La Curieuse)29. Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak : Agar Main Panchi Hota / Lark in the Clear Air from the DL EP Cove (Hudson)30. Mizrob : Laylijon from the CD Lost In Tajikistan (Riverboat)31. Penguin Cafe : In Re Budd from the CD Rain Before Seven... (Erased Tapes)You can find more details at www.podwireless.com

Join John for a trio of fiddle tunes from Kathryn Tickell, Carsie Blanton, A'Nish and the last of Spencer the Rover

Kathryn Tickell - composer, performer and the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes - is joined by singer pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen as they help Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye add the next five tracks to the playlist. It's a serendipitous musical journey which takes them from Quebec to New Orleans via Egypt. Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome Weatherald The five tracks in this week's playlist: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith Ouverture by La Bottine Souriante Overture from Candide by Leonard Bernstein Khusara Khusara by Hossam Ramzy Egyptian Ensemble Basin Street Blues by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five Other music in this episode: Green Onions by Booker T. and the M.G.'s Ché Ché Colé by Héctor Lavoe and Willie Colón Hushabye Birdie by Kathryn Tickell La Valse D'Orphelin by Christine Balfa Toxic by Britney Spears Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

Many of us know The Keeper as a slightly odd - but fun - song from our school days. All together now:JACKIE BOY!MASTER!No need to shout! reprimands a weary teacher.But away from the sanitised and bowdlerised versions of our childhoods lurks a dark song of sexual pursuit. You didn't really think all those does were female deer, did you?We talk about Camus, the band Andrew has been a part of for four decades, and explore its influences from the Northumbrian, Shetland and Irish traditions. The band's version of The Keeper combines different versions and makes some deliberate choices. They often run a competition for keen-eared listeners at their gigs, and if you listen to this episode you will get the answer, and if you then go to one of their gigs you'll win a free CD!As we talk about this traditional song and its themes, we also chat about the time that Andrew asked Martin Carthy about guitar tunings in a folk club toilet, and a rare sighting of Steve Roud at St Neots' folk club (but did he join in with the chorus?)Andrew is a Northumbrian piper and we chat about the way that the lockdown brought together the national and international Northumbrian piping community, creating such a surge of competition entries that the queen of Northumbrian pipes Kathryn Tickell herself had to get involved.If you've ever wondered how this podcast got started, stay tuned because all is revealed! This leads to a chat about children's songs on which Andrew – or Professor Burn as he's also known – is an expert. Will you, like me, suddenly remember those childhood skipping songs? And, in a world of wonderful diversity, what new songs from around the world can we hear in today's playgrounds? MusicThe Keeper (trad) performed live by Camus at the Ely Folk Club. You can see a video of this recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uB0EVItk8wRoaring Boys (Brian Cleary) performed by Camus. You can see a video of this recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOxoCBwxaUQEquinox Hornpipe (Andrew Burn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Optcf45MD_Q There are also excerpts from two sets of tunes from Camus' 2021 EP Time and Again:Da Day Dawn (trad), Christmas Day I' da Morning (trad), Da Alamoutie (trad). Three traditional Shetland tunes. Three Day Week/Alan Burn's Memorial Jig (Andrew Burn). Time and Again can be found on various streaming services, please visit the band's website for all the links, and there's a preview of the forthcoming album here.Other linksThe Mudcat thread that Andrew references, featuring Malcolm Douglas, can be found here.  The Opie archive can be found here.  You can find out more about Professor Andrew Burn's research interests here. 

“He said you could pluck songs out of the air - pluck them out of the air - and sing them bonny”. The great Northumbrian pipe player Kathryn Tickell describes the River Rede near her home as the backdrop and soundscape to her life. On its bank, she is joined by her Dad Mike to perform music, songs and stories inspired by the beautiful county where he brought her up and introduced her to the folk tradition. --- Access exclusive films of Kathryn performing by the river, along with over 150 other performances from dozens of artists, by signing up to Folk On Foot On Film: https://www.folkonfoot.com/watch We rely entirely on support from our listeners to make Folk on Foot. So please consider becoming a patron. You'll make a small monthly contribution and get great rewards. Find out more at www.patreon.com/folkonfoot. Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot

1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) 2. (Old Sig) Tiger Moth : Sloe Benga from the CD Mothballs Plus (Weekend Beatnik) 3. Ojos De Brujo : Runali from the CD Techari (Diquela) 4. Think Of One : Tirar Onda from the CD Trafico (Crammed) 5. Cheika Rimitti : Kijani from the CD N'ta Goudami (Because) 6. Romica Puceanu & The Gore Bros : Doi Tovarisi Am La Drum from the CD Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol 2 (Asphalt Tango) 7. Katerina Papadopoulou : Oh My Heart from the CD Anatoli, Anatoli Mou (Polytropon) 8. Shirley & Dolly Collins : The Banks Of Sweet Primroses from the CD Snapshots (Fledg'ling) 9. Lou Rhodes : Treat Her Gently from the CD Beloved One (Infinite Bloom) 10. Mojmir Novakovic i Kries : GEA - unreleased - (Kopito) 11. Pecheurs De Perles : Abaida from the CD Wahed (Buda) 12. Toumani Diabate : Mamadou Diaby from the CD Boulevard De L'Independance (World Circuit) 13. Dembo Konte & Kausu Kuyateh : Alla L'aa Ke from the CD Jali Roll (revisited + 1) (Weekend Beatnik) 14. Babar Luck : War Fever from the CD Care In The Community (Rebel Music) 15. Ernie Payne : Coercion Street from the CD Coercion Street (Crossroads 16. Lord Buckley : On A Cocoanut Island from the 1949 10" LP Comic Novelties (Solitaire) 17. Sam Ku West : Hue Hue, Hue Hue (Hawai'ian Hula) from the CD Hawaiian Hula Blues (Grass Skirt) 18. Anouar Brahem : Le Voyage De Sahar from the CD Le Voyage De Sahar (ECM) 19. (Old Sig) Tiger Moth : Sloe Benga from the CD Mothballs Plus (Weekend Beatnik) 20. Gotan Project : Mi Confesion from the CD Lunatico (XL/ ¡Ya Basta!) 21. Cheikha Rimitti : Dabri from the CD N'ta Goudami (Because) 22. Lou Rhodes : Save Me from the CD Beloved One (Infinite Bloom) 23. Jon Boden : Get A Little Something from the CD Painted Lady (Soundpost) 24. The Gloworms : Barham Down/The Yellow Joak from the CD Beam (Necta Arts) 25. The Boat Band : Keswick Bonny Lasses etc from the CD A Trip To The Lakes (Harbourtown) 26. Kathryn Tickell & Corinna Hewat : Brig Set from the CD The Sky Didn't Fall (Park) 27. Makam : Sarga A Repce Viraga from the CD Almanach (Folk Europa) 28. Kal : Dvojka from the CD Kal (Asphalt Tango) 29. West African Rhythm Brothers : Mofi Ajobi Seyin from the CD London Is The Place For Me 3 (Honest Jon's) 30. Lydia Mendoza : Invierno En Abril from the CD La Alondra De La Frontera (Arhoolie) 31. Pedro Luis Ferrer : Fundamento from the CD Rustico (Escondida Music) 32. Keyvan Chemirani, Nahawa Doumbia etc : Terik'e from the CD Le Rhythme De La Parole 2 (Accords Croises) 33. Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga : Nyam Choma from the CD Song & Dance (Virunga) 34. Nguyen Le & Paulo Fresu : Thang Long from the CD Duos: Homescape (ACT) Podwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud. You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.com Follow the links for previous podcasts.

Helen Mark is in Redesdale in Northumberland to find out about a project to restore and celebrate the landscape of these historic borderlands. Redesdale is one of the most peaceful parts of England and a stronghold for many of our native species, though for centuries it was a lawless frontier where families on both sides of the border, the Border Reivers, raided each other’s lands. The Revitalising Redesdale landscape partnership is restoring and connecting the habitats and the rich cultural heritage across the valley, including the peatlands of Whitelee Moor and archaeological sites stretching back to pre-history. One element of the project is to look for new evidence of the location of the infamous medieval Battle of Otterburn, which inspired several border ballads which have been passed down the generations. Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell and her Dad Mike live close to the banks of the river Rede; they describe their close connection to the Northumbrian ballads, and how this distinct musical tradition is linked to its landscape. Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Sophie Anton.

Some of the north east’s best and most critically acclaimed artists will be headlining performances at Sage Gateshead over the next few weeks, as it welcomes back audiences for the first time since lockdown. Kathryn Tickell, Richard Dawson and the Royal Northern Sinfonia are just some of the big names on the Sage Live 2020 series of live gigs and concerts in front of a socially distanced audience inside Sage Gateshead. And so too is Newcastle’s Lanterns on the Lake, who will be performing their Mercury-nominated album Spook the Herd for the very first time. We spoke to the band’s guitarist and producer, Paul Gregory, about why this year has been a particularly bizarre one for him, the band’s vocalist Hazel Wilde… and their baby daughter.

1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) 2. Billy Cooper, Walter & Daisy Bulwer, Reg Hall & Mervyn Plunkett : Jenny Lind / The Girl I Left Behind Me from the CD English Country Music (Topic) 3. Leveret : Molly Apple Pye from the CD Diversions (Rootbeat) 4. Eliza Carthy Band : No Man's Jig / Hanoverian Dance / Three Jolly Sheepskins from the CD Anglicana (Topic) 5. Martin Simpson : Down In The Valley To Pray / Continue To Roll from the CD A Closer Walk With Thee (Fledg'ling - out of print) 6. Ben Walker : A Day At The Races / The Fox On The Downs from the CD The Fox On The Downs EP (Folk Room) 7. Three Cane Whale : Cruc from the CD 303 (Three Cane Whale) 8. Arlet : Aidan's from the CD Clearing (Smugglers) (and fRoots 46) 9. BJ Cole & Emily Burridge : Gnossienne No.1 from the CD Into The Blue (BJEM) 10. Ben Mandelson : The Streets Of Delhi from the CD fRoots 21 (fRoots - out of print) 11. Rod Stradling : The Sportsman's Hornpipe from the CD Rhythms Of The Wold (Rogue - out of print) 12. Banter : Plane Tree from the CD Yes (Mrs Casey Music) (and fRoots 58) 13. Percy Brown : Step Dance Medley from the CD Heel & Toe (Veteran) 14. William Kimber : The Blue-Eyed Stranger from the CD The Music Of William Kimber (EFDSS) 15. Jim Eldon : Goathland Speed The Plough from the CD Songs And Fiddle Tunes (Stick) 16. John Kirkpatrick : Glorishears from the CD Plain Capers (Topic) 17. The Old Swan Band : Moss-Trooper's Polka / Billy Ballantine's Reel from the CD Fortyfived (Wild Goose) 18. Spiro : The Copper Suite from the DL single (Real World) 19. Neal Heppleston : Spencer The Rover from the CD Folk Songs For Double Bass (Preserved Sound) 20. Annie Whitehead & Alistair Anderson : Crazy Midnight: II. Twelve Midnight from the CD Northern Lights / Airplay (Provocateur) 21. Kathryn Tickell & The Side : Penguin Notes from the CD Kathryn Tickell & The Side (Resilient) 22. Penguin Café : Ghost In The Pond from the CD A Matter Of Life... (Penguin Café) 23. Boka Halat : Small Coals from the CD The Drummer (TAPS) (and fRoots 24) 24. Brass Monkey : Tip-Top Hornpipe / Primrose Polka from the CD The Complete Brass Monkey (Topic) 25. Bellowhead : Rochdale Coconut Dance from the CD E.P.Onymous (Bellowhead) 26. Al Jones : Most Chickens Are Mild And Friendly Or Would Like To Be from the CD Jonesville + (Ghosts From The Basement) 27. Dave Evans : Insanity Rag from the CD The Words In Between (Earth) 28. Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards! (Ghosts From The Basement) 29. The Rheingans Sisters : Dancing In The Cow Shed from the CD Already Home (Rootbeat) 30. Methera : Rising Sun from the CD Vortex (Methera) (also on fRoots 61) 31. Collectress : Pumphouse from the CD Mondegreen (Collectress) (also on fRoots 49) 32. Andrew Cronshaw : To A Smiling Shore from the CD Zithers (Cloud Valley) 33. Effra : Musicophilia from the CD Below Ground (Effra) (also on fRoots 68) 34. Duck Soup : The Radstock Jig from the CD Duck Soup (Hebe Music) (also on fRoots 26) 35. Pigeon Swing : Reel Joseph/ Reel des Accordeonistes from their unreleased demo 36. C. Joynes : Pollard The Limes from the CD Congo (Bo Weavil) 37. Davy Graham & Alexis Korner : 3/4 A.D. from the EP 3/4 AD (Topic) 38. PolkaWorks : The Whetstone / Tekili from the CD Borrowed Shoes (G&T Music) 39. Davey & Dyer : An Lanow / Cornish Girls from the CD Dynamite Quay (Dalla) (also on fRoots 71) 40. The Imagined Village (Gloworms v. Tiger Moth) : Kit Whites I & II / Sloe On The Uptake from the CD The Imagined Village (Real World) 41. (Outro): The Folk Dance Band : Sellenger's Round from the CD Listen To The Band (EFDSS) Podwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud. You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.com Follow the links for previous podcasts.

On Monday 25th May – Spring Bank Holiday in the UK – we staged the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival 2 with an astonishing line up of artists. The show lasted for eight hours – but we have distilled it down to two hours of highlights, featuring: Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman, Chris Wood, Duncan Chisholm, Eliza Carthy, Frank Turner and Jess Guise, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, John Smith, Johnny Flynn, Kate Rusby and Damien O’Kane, Kathryn Tickell, Kitty Macfarlane, O’Hooley and Tidow, Richard Thompson and Zara Phillips, Rioghnach Connolly and Ellis Davies – all playing from their front rooms (and gardens). Plus the online premiere of a behind the scenes film of the Unthanks on their recent “unaccompanied” tour. It was a remarkable and emotional day which raised loads of money for musicians who can’t work during the lockdown – enjoy!

Radio 3 presenter Kathryn Tickell celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her: the Australian-American folksong fanatic Percy Grainger.

Harriet Shawcross is a film-maker whose first book Unspeakable reflects on how, as a teenager, she stopped speaking at school for almost a year, communicating only when absolutely necessary. It mixes personal experience with travel diaries and interviews. Ambassador William J. Burns is known as America’s ‘secret diplomatic weapon’. Having served five presidents and ten secretaries of state, he has been central to the past four decades’ most consequential foreign policy episodes. Now retired from the US Foreign Service, he is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and has written The Back Channel: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World. Kathryn Tickell is widely acclaimed as the world’s foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes. Presenter for BBC Radio 3's "Music Planet" she has just released Hollowbone with her new band The Darkening. Thomas Dixon was the first director of Queen Mary University of London's Centre for the History of the Emotions. He is currently researching anger and has explored the histories of friendship, tears, and the British stiff upper lip in books Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears and The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain. He gave the Free Thinking Lecture 2019 which you can also find as a BBC Arts&Ideas podcast.

At the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead Tom Sutcliffe presents a special edition exploring the art and science of communication. The American diplomat William J Burns played a central role in American foreign policy from the end of the Cold War to the collapse of relations with Putin’s Russian, and including secret talks with Iran. He explores the language of diplomacy. Harriet Shawcross is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She reflects on how as a teenager she stopped speaking for almost a year. In her book Unspeakable she considers the power of silence. The musician and composer Kathryn Tickell roots her work in in the landscape and people of Northumbria. She is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes, and tells the story of Northumbria with - and without - words. Thomas Dixon studies emotional outbursts as the director of the Centre for the History of Emotions. He unveils the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of anger and weeping. Producer: Katy Hickman

Singer Eugenia Georgieva takes us on a Road Trip to Bulgaria to see how music was used to keep a sense of national identity in the face of centuries of repression, from Bulgarian traditional folk to the famous female choirs. Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new release, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.

CBC's Wendy Bergfeldt takes us on a Road Trip to Cape Breton Island in Eastern Canada. Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new releases, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.

Radio 3 presenter Kathryn Tickell celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her: the Australian-American folksong fanatic Percy Grainger.

Tom Service discovers endless variety in music based on a drone - from rustic dance to mystic religious ecstasy. Medieval Christian music used a drone to provide support for their liturgical chants; old country dances went with a swing to the drone of bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy. Much Indian classical music builds elaborate melodic variations over a drone. Minimalist composer Lamonte Young has a never-ending drone piece playing in his loft in New York; and rock band The Velvet Underground brought psychedelic drones into the pop scene of the late 1960s. Tom talks to Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell about the drones on her bagpipes, and to American minimalist composer Phill Niblock about his use of microtonal drones in his music.

Top picks from across the week on In Tune, including pianist Murray Perahia, Oliver Mears and Antonio Pappano from the Royal Opera House, and crime novelist Donna Leon. Plus pianist Joseph Middleton who was recently nominated for two Royal Philharmonic Society Awards with soprano Mary Bevan, and finally folk musicians Kathryn Tickell and Amy Thatcher from Radio 3's Uproot Festival in Hull.

The North East of England's Case for Culture is a bold plan to raise £300 million for art projects. Instead of being an adjunct to development culture is seen as the key to the region's redevelopment. But only a few years ago Newcastle cut its arts budget entirely. Organisations are exploring new ways of working. Jim Beirne of Live Theatre takes John Wilson to the pub the theatre runs, the profits of which pay for a new play every year. It also owns restaurants and prime office space, to fund its theatre and outreach projects. The Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has just launched a new organisation, Magnetic North East, to foster the identity, music and traditions of the North East. It has released an album of songs and tunes, new and old, about the River Tyne, by artists ranging from Jimmy Nail to the Unthanks. Last Friday it held a grand concert in the region's village hall - Auditorium One of The Sage, featuring famous North East artists such as Paul Smith of the band Maximo Park, young folk musicians and a host of children giving a world premiere of a work by David Almond.Kathryn Tickell, John Mowbray - the High Sheriff of Tyne and Wear, and a prime mover in the Case for Culture, David Almond, who wrote Skellig, the Olivier Award winning playwright, Shelagh Stephenson, whose new play is set in her hometown of Tynemouth, all contribute to John Wilson's exploration, as he rambles around Newcastle, of the role of art in the regeneration of the North East of England.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Julian May.

The scale is wrong: the vanishing points inconsistent. The steps between notes form no tone or half-tone, the perspective is forced or false. Lunging crazily over the skyline, the lunatic figure of a kingkong wraithed in moth-tattered robes, thrusting stubby fingers up, up, towards the imagined chemtrails of poisonous radiation-dipped seagulls.Listen Now.These tendrils of sound will tantalise your earbuds like the ghostly fingers of a beckoning Lorelei:Jo Ann Castle - Tico TicoCaptain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Diddy Wah DiddyKathryn Tickell with The Demagogue Reacts - Techno Ate The MusiciansPisces - Motley Mary AnnPsalters - RedThe Chills - Effloresce and DeliquesceHatfield And The North - Share ItWithered Hand - Heart HeartYour dismay is my life-fuel.  Ram it down my neck at gcuesoterica@gmail.com.Twenty minutes. No refunds.

The music writer Laura Barton visits four corners of Britain and listens closely to the music found in different landscapes. In this first episode, Laura visits parts of the rugged countryside of Northumberland and the coastal city of Sunderland on Tyne and Wear to explore how music and landscape are intimately related. In an environment defined by a beautiful coastline and great northern rivers, Kathryn Tickell, the violinist and Northumbrian piper, and Adrian McNally of the folk group The Unthanks share their experiences of performing and arranging traditional tunes that seem to have emerged from the sea and been hewn from the soil. Members of the Sunderland band Frankie and the Heartstrings take Laura on a tour of the shop they established in the heart of the old industrial city to sell coffee, artworks and records, as well as to provide a rehearsal and gig space. They also perform acoustically in the famous Watch House, from which volunteer lifeboatmen would keep an eye on the Roker seashore. And Peter Brewis of Field Music, based in a former industrial unit on the banks of the River Wear, tells Laura about the distinctive accents of music from this part of the North-East. Produced by Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Northumbrian piper and fiddler Kathryn Tickell chooses some of her favourite classical pieces inspired by folk music, including works by Antonio Soler, Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Johan Halvorsen, Percy Grainger, Juan de Araujo, Henry Cowell, Pehr Henrik Nordgren and Howard Skempton.

Northumbrian piper and fiddler Kathryn Tickell chooses some of her favourite classical pieces inspired by folk music, including works by Schubert, Debussy, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Rachmaninoff, Villa-Lobos, Ligeti, and Judith Weir.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the Northumbrian musician Kathryn Tickell. Kathryn Tickell is rooted in the remote hill farms of Northumbria; her grandparents were shepherds, and she grew up playing the Northumbrian pipes and fiddle at village dances. By the age of just 16, she was the official piper to the Lord Mayor of Newcastle and had released her first album. 19 more albums have followed. She was the first folk performer at the BBC Proms, was named Musician of the Year at the 2013 Radio 2 Folk Awards (not for the first time) and holds the Queen's Medal for Music. She's done more than any other musician to preserve the rich musical heritage of the North East of England. In a programme recorded at Sage Gateshead during the 2014 Free Thinking Festival, she talks to Michael Berkeley about how she started visiting old musicians, when she was only nine, taking her tape recorder to capture voices and tunes. This was an oral tradition, so recording the tunes was a way of learning them - they weren't written down. What did the musicians think of this young girl turning up to record them? Most of them, she reflects wryly, were related to her anyway. Kathryn Tickell's lifelong enthusiasm for musical discovery leads to a marvellously eclectic playlist for the programme. She introduces Percy Grainger music for theremin, the Brazilian composer Chiquinha Gonzaga, the Armenian folk-song collector Komitas Vardabet, and John Cage's Sonata No 5 for 'prepared' piano. Plus a comic song from the Tyneside singer Owen Brannigan and a poem in Northumbrian dialect which she warns listeners not even to bother trying to decipher? Producer: Elizabeth Burke A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3. To hear previous episodes of Private Passions, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r3pp/all.

PODCAST: 23 Mar 2014   01 - En p'tit boggie (Giddy Up) - La Bottine Souriante - Cordial 02 - The Maid That Sold Her Barley - Déanta - Ready for the Storm 03 - Waitress in the White Dress - Charlie Roth - Broken Ground 04 - The Scartaglen Jig / Out On The Ocean - Ruthie Dornfield / Joel Bernstein / Keith Murphy - Ways of the World 05 - Favourite Place / Brig Set - Kathryn Tickell, Corrina Hewat - The Sky Didn’t Fall 06 - Killing the Blues - Tommy O'Sullivan - The Long Grazing Acre 07 - The Worker’s Song - Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth 08 - If the River Was Whiskey - Whiskey Dogs - Hand Me Down 09 - Whiskey in the Jar - Pecker Dunne - The Very Best of Pecker Dunne 10 - Long Lankin - The Devil's Interval - Old Wine in New Skins 11 - Will Atkinson - Kathryn Tickell - Northumbrian Voices 12 - Ghost at the Crossroads - Luke Jackson - Fumes and Faith 13 - Autoharp Polka - Harvey Reid - The Autoharp Album 14 - Seinn o - Mary Jane Lamond - Suas e! 15 - Each Man - Seth Lakeman - Word of Mouth

Newcastle Roots Music Radio brings you a monthly world, roots and folk music podcast wherever you live! There's also a gig guide for those of you who live in Northeast England on the podcast and the related blog where you can also find a playlist with links for more information regarding artists: www.rootsoftheworld.blogspot.co.uk/ This month's edition features music from Gareth-Davies Jones. Tynedale based singer-songwriter, who's back on the podcast for the second time. He has a new album out "Now But Not Yet", we will hear two songs from this album of strong, warm powerfully delivered lyrics. Gareth produced a Christmas album last year "Nine Lessons" , which has a thoughtful and reflective flavour-recommended. To complete the Christmas side of things Cerys Matthews and Kate Rusby chip in. There's more local music from Rod Clements, Jez Lowe, Flossie Malavialle,Kathryn Tickell,the Baghdaddies, Monkey Junk and Skylark Song. Further afield we have music from Mali, Cornwall, Jamaica, Bulgaria, a London based Scot and a London based Turk, Scotland based Scots and Stourbridge, West Midlands! This podcast comes from RootsoftheWorld and is available on Soundcloud, Podomatic and iTunes. Follow me on Twitter @RootsoftheWorld and like me on Facebook: Facebook.com/RootsoftheWorld On my Facebook page you’ll find other roots music related postings including further listening recommendations. If you would like me to put you on the mailing list for this podcast please e mail me at rootsoftheworld@btinternet.com. You can also listen to my music mix on Hive Radio on my “Roots of the World Show” broadcast fortnightly from 5-6pm on Sundays. This month on Sundays 8th December and 22th December at http://hiveradiouk.wordpress.com/ and later available on Mixcloud at http://www.mixcloud.com/Hive_Radio/. This podcast is PRS licensed.

Private Passions makes its first visit to Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of ideas. Michael Berkeley talks to Chris Mullin, former MP, thriller writer and one of the sharpest political diarists of our age. He's certainly a free thinker: in three volumes of political diaries he's given us a devastating and very funny account of the workings of Westminster, from his vantage point as Labour MP for Sunderland South. Chris Mullin retired in 2010 after 23 years in Parliament; Michael asks him whether he was too free-thinking to get to the top â€" or perhaps his sense of humour was the problem. But there's more to Chris Mullin than his political career, as this programme reveals. He looks back to perhaps the greatest achievement of his life, when he campaigned successfully for the release of the Birmingham Six in the 1980s - innocent men imprisoned as a result of a miscarriage of justice. He talks too about his friendship with the Dalai Lama and how his travels in the Far East have given him a different perspective, and about finding love and raising a family later in life. Chris Mullin's musical choices include Handel's 'Messiah', sung by the Parliament Choir; a Chopin Nocturne; Tibetan, Vietnamese and African music and Mozart's C Minor Mass. He also includes music by Northumbrian musician Kathryn Tickell, celebrating his deep love of the North East and the rich life he has lived there. BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.

Newcastle Roots Music Radio's October/November edition from RootsoftheWorld gives you an eclectic mix of World, Roots and Folk music from Newcastle to the world over. There's a gig guide for Newcastle and roundabout, and a focus on a north-east England artist, this month Kathryn Tickell. But music is music wherever you are so enjoy! and if you don't live in these parts why not come for a few days and take in one of the gigs mentioned! The podcast is linked to a blog which has a full playlist including start times of each track, gigs to go to including U Tube clips to help you decide and suggested purchases! If you like what you hear please say so and tell others....Thank you. Blog: http://rootsoftheworld.blogspot.co.uk/ Twitter: @RootsoftheWorld Facebook: facebook.com/RootsoftheWorld Also available on Soundcloud and soon on I Tunes. Podcast sponsored by the Brandling Villa Pub, South Gosforth, Newcastle www.brandlingvilla.co.uk Podcast licensed by PRS licence no:LE-0006074

In this show we Think Local with a series of songs and tunes linked to various places around the British Isles. Also there is a preview of our interview with Ken Nicol talking about his new album, Historic Events And Other Subjects. The music is Byker Hill by Bellowhead - Kingsdale by The Moonbeams - Land Of Chalk And Clay by Beggar's Bridge - Da Full Rigged Ship by The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc - Kerry And Donegal Reels by Rochentune - Lady Montgomery by Session A9 - Hook by MacmasterHay - Mastiau Hen Longau by Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog - A Thousand Tongues by DeBorah - Silver And Gold by James J Turner - Evensong and Five Thousand Birds by Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim - After After by Ryan Ayers - Me And My Dark Companion by Declan Sinnot - Ten Pound Poms and The Demon Of The Well by Ken Nicol - Grey Bull and Wark Football Team by Kathryn Tickell

This week Libby Purves is joined by David M.Wilson, Fred Baier, Buddy Greco and Kathryn Tickell. Dr David M Wilson is a polar historian and a great-nephew of Dr Edward Wilson, the Chief of the Scientific Staff, who died with Captain Scott in Antarctica. His book, 'The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott' features photographs from that ill-fated expedition that have never been seen before. There will also be an exhibition - 'The Heart of the Great Alone', marking the centenary of Scott's expedition at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and at the Natural History Museum. 'The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott' are published by Little, Brown. Fred Baier is the British maverick furniture maker who was catapulted to fame by the Crafts Council in the 1970s and toured as a celebrity British export. His work has redefined contemporary furniture with a combination of mercurial intelligence, a playful sense of maths, engineering and colour. An exhibition of his work is at the Craft Study Centre in Farnham, Surrey and is also currently in the V&A's Postmodernism exhibition. Buddy Greco is the legendary singer and pianist. His previously unreleased album Live At The Sands (recorded in Las Vegas in 1967) is being released this month. Now 85, he is still regularly performing around the world. During his career he performed with the Rat Pack for many years and alongside many major artists, including the Beatles. Kathryn Tickell is a folk musician. She is touring with a new show "Northumbrian Voices", which is based on interviews and recordings she has done over the years with family members and old musicians from whom she learnt tunes and songs. Three generations of musicians perform, including her father, a formidable Geordie singer in his seventies. Producer: Chris Paling.