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Since Spring 2019 Invisible Folk are proud to have been the recipients of four Arts Council Grants.
In this podcast Jon Bickley talks about our relationship with the Arts Council and how that has enabled us to commission new compositions, new performances and to inject some money into the folk music community. You'll also hear some great music; without Arts Council funding it would never have existed.
For more information go to our Website https://invisiblefolk.com/

Singer/Songwriters Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes joined narrator John Palmer (director of the critically-acclaimed Vaughan Williams anniversary 'From Pub to Pulpit' Cathedral tour) to talk us through a new show entitled 'Ghosts, werewolves and countryfolk - the songs and stories of Sabine Baring-Gould' 
Polymath and Victorian superstar Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was, amongst many other things, a best-selling novelist most notably for stories of ghosts, werewolves and Norse myths. Despite wide ranging interests he felt the most important part of his life was collecting songs from Devon and Cornwall, amassing more than 2000 songs. In the show Miranda, Jim and John interweave some of those songs with anecdotes from Baring-Gould's astonishing life and stories. Ticket info from https://www.mirandasykes.com/baring-gould-centenary/
Songs (in order of appearance):
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - My Lady's Coach
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - Cottage Well Thatched
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - Last of the Singers
All songs Trad/Arr Causley & Sykes
Links to artist websites:
https://www.mirandasykes.com/
https://www.jimcausley.co.uk/

Rhiannon Crutchley is an independent, alternative, acoustic musician who performs under the name Brewer's Daughter. For the last 10 years she has lived on a narrowboat travelling the inland waterways of the English east Midlands. She has worked the festival scene in the UK and Europe both solo and as fiddle player with Tarantism. 
Released on 5th April 2024 ‘Made Undone’ is Rhiannon's third solo album and is by far her most advanced to date, not only in terms of songwriting, but in production values too. The collaboration with Hawkwind guitarist Magnus Martin has been particularly fruitful.
For music and merch go to https://thebrewersdaughter.bandcamp.com/
For gigs and other information keep an eye on Facebook

This is the final podcast of our Grace will lead me home project, a partnership with the Cooper & Newton Museum (Olney) to mark the 250th anniversary of the writing of Amazing Grace. Our guest speaker is James Walvin, OBE Emeritus Professor of History at York University, his latest book is the cultural history of Amazing Grace. It is fascinating and comprehensive, not only of the creation of the beloved hymn, but its evolution from 1772 as it passes through a series of cultural ecosystems.
For further info about the Grace will lead me home project go to this link

It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer.
Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new music, blasts from the past. 
In the final part of our festive trilogy we reflect on the old year and ring in the new. For centuries, wassailing was a key part of year-end celebrations. 'Wassail' derives from the old Norse for 'good health' usually involving drinking and raucous singing. Bring us in good ale!
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Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith - Turning of the Year
The Wilderness Yet - Turn The Year Round
Virginia Kettle - Closing Down the Year
Emily Portman - Hinge of the Year
Janice Burns & Jon Doran - The Month of January
Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones - The Yorkshire Wassailing Song
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - Ashen Bowl
Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane - The Sun also Rises
Blur - The Wassailing Song
Mediæval Bæbes - Gower Wassail
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Tar Barrel in Dale
The Watersons - Apple Tree Wassail
Waterson : Carthy - Awake Awake
Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay - Bright Edge Deep

It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer.
Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new music, blasts from the past. 
It's Part 2 of our festive trilogy, so this is Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year, so they say. The music we have chosen reflects the many faces of Christmas, mostly smiling faces but not all.
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Staple Singers - The Last Month of the Year
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - Beautiful Star
Jon Wilks - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Lisa Knapp - Cherry Tree Carol
Paul Hutchinson - The Coventry Carol & Retreat from Kabul
Burd Ellen - Sans Day Carol
Angeline Morrison - Christmas is Now Drawing Near at Hand
Anna Howie - Searching For Christmas
Alan & Sue Garmonsway - Spiritus Sanctum
Emma Scarr - Christmas in Paradise
Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones - King Christmas
Coope, Boyes & Simpson - How Beautiful Upon the Mountains
Hattie Whitehead - In The Bleak Midwinter
The Band - Christmas Must Be Tonight
A Winter Union - White Christmas Somewhere
Mediæval Bæbes - Carol of the Bells
Mean Mary - Here We Come a-Caroling