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The Mike Harding Folk Show

The very best in folk, roots and acoustic music

THE MIKE HARDING FOLK SHOWwww.mikehardingfolkshow.com will take you into the world of folk – links to artists you hear on the show / folk clubs & session near you / other folk radio sites / folk record labels / folk

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  • 309. Mike Harding Folk Show 309

    02:04:55||Ep. 309
    Podcast: 02 Oct 202201 Go, Move, Shift – Siobhan Miller – Bloom02 The Corncrake – Janice Burns & Jon Doran – No More The Green Hills03 The Greenmore Hare – Janice Burns & Jon Doran – No More The Green Hills04 An Spailpín Fánach / Step It Out Joe – Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen – Nathan Gourley And Laura Feddersen05 Raglan Road – Luke Kelly – The Ultimate Guide To Irish Folk [Disc 1]06 Where Are You Tonight (I Wonder) – Hannah Rarity – Beginnings07 Emigrant Visa – The Wilderness Yet – What Holds The World Together08 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Zoe Mulford – Bonfires09 We’ll Go No More A-Roving – Susan McKeown – Singing In The Dark10 Favorites Medley – The Ensemble – American Dreamer: The Songs Of Stephen Foster11 Gentle Annie – Martyn Wyndham-Read – Martyn Wyndham-Read12 Hares On The Mountain – The Magpies – Undertow13 Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) – The Magpies – Undertow14 Whole Heap Of Little Horses – The Chieftains / Patty Griffin – Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions15 Lord Franklin – Jack Warnock – Le Solas Faoithine 16 The Galbally Farmer – Jack Warnock – Le Solas Faoithine17 The Day The Bank Closed Its Doors – Nigel Parry – Nigel Parry – Tales Of Common Folk, Salt & Sweet Kisses 18 Kathleen – Kath Reade – Inheritance19 Hard Times Of Old England – Roy Bailey – What You Do With What You’ve Got20 The Sound Of Markets Crashing – Will Varley – Land Of Hope And Fury21 Workers Song – Dick Gaughan – Handful Of EarthyHartlepool Asda Saturday Morn – Robb Johnson – Minimum Wages/ Bodger, My Pa In His Downfall22 Not For The First Time – Vin Garbutt – When The Tide Turns23 Those Were The Days – Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh – Flowers EP24 Where Have All The Flowers Gone – Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh – Flowers EP25 Home Lad, Home – Belshazzar’s Feast – Find The Lady

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  • 308. Mike Harding Folk Show 308

    02:21:15||Ep. 308
    Podcast: 04 Sep 202201 Frenchie’s Reel / Denver Belle – John McCutcheon – Step By Step02 Valapariso – The Hunch – No 103 The Jolly Tinker – Martin Carthy – An Introduction To Martin Carthy04 A Stitch In Time – Martin Carthy – Essential05 Queen Of Argyll – Siobhan Miller – Bloom06 Wild Mountain Thyme – Siobhan Miller – Bloom07 An Buachaillín Dreoite / The Bloody Hollow – Seán Keegan – A Bird Never Flew On One Wing08 Lucy Wan – Frankie Archer – Lucy Wan Single09 Be Careful There’s A Baby In The House – Loudon Wainwright III – Album II10 Hares On The Mountain – Bella Hardy – Love Songs 11 My Johnny Was A Shoemaker – Bella Hardy – Love Songs12 The Bells Of Rhymney – The Pitmen Poets – Bare Knuckle13 Joe Hill Blues – The Pitmen Poets – Bare Knuckle14 Gulf Coast Highway – Naimh Dunne – Songs I Like Singing15 The Scarecrow – Lal Waterson – Teach Me To Be A Summer’s Morning16 The Maids Of Mitchelstown / Callaghan’s – Nathan Gourley And Laura Feddersen – Brightly Or Darkly17 When I Was A Fair Maid – Jackie Oates – Gracious Wings18 The Ship In Distress – Jackie Oates – Gracious Wings19 Not For The First Time – The Hunch – No 120 Old Brock – The Wilderness Yet – What Holds The World Together 21 T Stands For Thomas – The Wilderness Yet – What Holds The World Together22 Take Me Home – Rory McLeod – Footsteps And Heartbeats23 All The Way Home – Cathy Jordan – All The Way Home24 Avalon, My Home Town – Bruce Cockburn – Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt25 The Homes Of Donegal – Paul Brady – Back To The Centre26 Home – Eric Bibb – Blues People27 Back Home In Derry – Christy Moore – Magic Nights [Disc 1]28 Bring ‘Em Home – Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions – American Land Edition29 Follow The Heron Home – Begley & Tim Edey, Seamus – Disgrace Notes3O C’est La Vie – Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia – Devil’s Tale
  • 307. Mike Harding Folk Show 307

    02:07:42||Ep. 307
    Podcast: 07 Aug 202201 Au Nord Là-Bas - De Temps Antan - Pesant02 The L&N - Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow - Ready For The Times03 Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway - Kate Theasby - I Remember You Singing04 Copenhagen Cycles / Visits From Stanley - Tina Jordan Rees - Beatha05 The River Don't Run - Nick Hart - Nick Hart Sings Eight English Folk Songs06 John Willie's Performing Newt - Peter & Barbara Snape - Snapenotes07 My Son David - Graeme Armstrong - You Are Free08 The Mistletoe Bride  - Rose Price & Martin Medina  - Single09 Jackie Tar / Bantry Bay  - Seán Keegan - A Bird Never Flew On One Wing10 One Starry Night - Kate Theasby - I Remember You Singing 11 The Beaches Of St. Valery - Frank Blair - An Bóithrín12 I'm A Woman Now - Molly Tilson - The Narrowboat Sessions 201413 Happy Little Phoebe / Mann - Y Mountain - Damien O'Kane & Ron Block - Banjophonics14 Andy’s Gone With Cattle - Bush Gothic - Beyond The Pale15 Gura Mise Tha Fo Èislein - Niteworks Feat. Ellen Macdonald - A' Ghrian16 Farewell To Connaught / The Trip To Durrow - Seán Keegan - A Bird Never Flew On One Wing17 Bogey's Bonnie Belle - Christy Moore - Live In Dublin18 Django - Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia - Devil's Tale19 Eileen Og - Coisceim Coiligh - As The Day Brightens20 Angel From Montgomery - Martin Simpson - Home Recordings21 End Of The Day - Henry Priestman - The Narrowboat Sessions 201422 Whistling Rufus - Duck Baker - Wink The Other Eye.23 Leave Her Johnny  - Katie Grace Harris - Single24 Jesus On The Mainline - James Shorty - Alan Lomax: Popular Songbook25 Pedal Your Blues Away - R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders - Singing In The Bathtub
  • 306. Mike Harding Folk Show 306

    02:03:13||Ep. 306
    Podcast: 03 Jul 202201 Slidin’ Delta – Hans Theesink – Baby Wants To Boogie02 D’où Venez-Vous – De Temps Antan – Pesant03 Mrs Saggs – Will Pound – A Cut Above04 Miles Weatherhill and Sara Bell – Hannah Sanders – Charms Against Sorrow05 Oakley Strike Evictions – Dom Prag – Needle & Thread06 My Johnny Was A Shoemaker – Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones – A Year Too Late And A Month Too Soon07 British Man Of War – Jenny McCormick – Sweet Demon08 Bows Of London – Stick In The Wheel – From Here09 Steppy Downs Road – Sam Sweeney – Unearth Repeat10 Banks Of The Sweet Primroses – Vic Legg – I’ve Come To Sing A Song 11 Ripple Of The Teign – The Dartmoor Pixie Band – Stepping It Out!12 Jig And Reel/The Pipe On The Hob/The Colliers’ Reel – Dennis Cahill – Masters Of The Irish Guitar13 The Thrifty Wife – Damien O’Kane & Ron Block – Banjophonics14 Hares On The Mountain – Fern Maddie – Ghost Story15 Duelling Banjos – Tim Edey – Live From T-Pot Studios Scotland16 Georgie- Janice Burns And Jon Doran – Janice Burns and Jon Doran Ep17 Old Rafferty’s Apple / Rosie’s Wedding – Pat Walsh – Simply Whistle18 Chickens In The Garden – Carthy Hardy Farrell Young – Laylam19 The Garden – Ruth Moody – The Garden20 A Fair Maid Walking All In Her Garden – Robin and Barry Dransfield – Rout Of The Blues21 Sally In The Garden – Tony Elman – Swinging On A Gate22 The Fatal Flower Garden – Rayna Gellert – Old Light: Songs From My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds23 Proper Sort Of Gardener – June Tabor – Aleyn24 There’s A Black Hole In My Back Garden – Commoners Choir – Commoners Choir25 The Sally Gardens – Mairi Campbell – Revenge Of The Folk Singers26 Whose Garden Was This – Tom Paxton – #627 Adam And Eve In The Garden Of Eden – Bogus Ben Covington – Good For What Ails You (Music Of The Medicine Shows)28 The Sally Gardens/The Ships Are Sailing/The Wild Irishman/TheCoalminer/The Skylark – Frankie Gavin & Paul Brock with Charlie Lennon – Ómós Do Joe Cooley
  • 305. Mike Harding Folk Show 305

    02:13:51||Ep. 305
    Podcast: 05 Jun 20221 Plains Of Kildare – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady2 Song Of The Fishgutters – Janice Burns & Jon Doran – Janice Burns & Jon Doran Ep3 The Chemical Worker’s Song – The Teesside Fettlers – Ring Of Iron4 Thomond Bridge/The Jug Of Punch/Trip To Durrow – Angela Usher – The Gort Mile5 Ships – Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – New Moon Sessions6 The Hartlepool Monkey – The Teesside Fettlers – Travelling The Tees7 The Blarney Stone – Bob Davenport – The Red Haired Lad8 No Road Across Mousehold – The Shackleton Trio – Mousehold9 What Kind Of An Eegit Are Ya? – John Devine – Notions10 My Old Man – Garva – Sweet Liberty11 Róisín Dubh – Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh – Róisín Reimagined12 Van Diemen’s Land – Dom Prag – Needle & Thread13 This Land Is Your Land – Woody Guthrie / Will Geer – Bound For Glory14 The Witch Of The Westmorelands – Linda Adams – Nobody But Me15 The Early Morning Rain – The Woods – The Early Morning Rain16 Arthur McBride – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady17 Lord Gregory – Ye Vagabonds – Nine Waves18 Do Re Mi – Woody Guthrie / Will Geer – Bound For Glory19 Follow The Heron – Hò-Rò – New Moon20 The Well Below The Valley – Pauline Scanlon – The Unquiet21 1964 Catholic Total Instution Blues – David Metcalfe – Bad News On The Radio22 Glasgow Peggy – Janice Burns & Jon Doran – Janice Burns & Jon Doran EP23 Eleanor Of Usan – Tim Edey – Live From T-Pot Studios Scotland 24 An Tseanbhean Bhocht – Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh – Róisín Reimagined25 The Stone Outside Dan Murphy’s Door – Bob Davenport – The Red Haired Lad26 Do Re Me – John Melencamp – A Vision Shared / The Songs Of Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly
  • 304. Mike Harding Folk Show 304

    02:27:06||Ep. 304
    01 Bayou Noir/ Back Of Town Two Step – Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys – Trace Of Time02 White Dress – Fairport Convention – Rising For The Moon03 The Last Pint – Pierre Bensusan – A La Carte04 Banks Of The Sweet Primroses – The Copper Family – Come Write Me Down05 If I Was A Black Bird – Eleanor Shanley – Desert Heart06 The Gardener – Hedgehog Pie – The Green Lady07 Lazlo Faher – Capstick – The Punch And Judy Man08 Both Sides The Tweed – Dick Gaughan – Handful Of Earth09 Coal Hole Cavalry – Gary n Vera – A Taste Of Hotpot10 Moonshiner – Uncle Tupelo – Uncle Tupelo 89/93 Anthology11 Rosey Morn – Bashir Al Gamir – Best Foot  12 Plastic Flowers For Stone Hearts – Captain Of The Lost Waves – Mystereum Tremendum13 Stars In My Crown – Waterson Carthy – Common Tongue14 The Dimming Of The Day  – Richard Thompson (With Mary Black And Dolores Keane) – Bringing It All Back Home15 Roseville Fair – The Full Set – Notes After Dark16 The Voyage – Christy Moore – On The Road (Disc 1)17 Little Pot Stove – Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs18 Canadee–I–O – 10,000 Maniacs – Twice Told Tales19 The Man In Edward Hopper’s Bar – Reg Meuross – Still20 Hop Hop Hop – The Oldham Tinkers – 21 We Need Each Other Now – Merry Hell – Bloodlines22 Pounds Shillings And Pence – Robin and Tim Boardman – Deep Lancashire23 Sam Shuttle And Betty Reedhook – Harry Boardman – Deep Lancashire24 Reels: The Humours Of Tulla / Toss The Feathers / Saint Anne’s Reel / Lexy MacAskill / The Limerick Lasses / Jean’s Reel / The Musical Priest – Silly Wizard – Live Again25 The King Of Rome – June Tabor – Aqaba26 Jerusalem Revisited  – Coope Boyes & Simpson – The  Paschendale Suite27 Mattie – Sean Tyrell – Cry Of A Dreamer28 July Wakes – Mike Harding – The Airing Cupboard Tapes29 The Blueberry Moon – Jim Chorley – Keepsakes Vol 130 Poly Vaughan – Tony Rose – On Banks Of Green Willow31 The Ghosts Of Cable Street – The Men They Couldn’t Hang – 5 Go Mad On The Other Side32 Kilty Town – Willie Kavanagh – The Crooked Road
  • 303. Mike Harding Folk Show 303

    02:07:36||Ep. 303
    01 Valparaiso – The Hunch – Released02 Food Banks And Ferraris – Sally Ironmonger and Brian Carter – Pinch Me03 Sally In The Garden Aka Hog-Eye – Tom Paley’s Old-Time Moonshine Revue – Roll On, Roll On04 Green Broom – Rachel McShane and The Cartographers – 05 The Soldiers Farewell To Manchester – Mark Dowding And Chris Harvey – Manchester Ballads 106 Lovely Joan – Simon Mayor, Hilary James – When Summer Comes Again07 The Maid Of Mount Cisco / The Bag Of Potatoes – Rita & Sarah Keane and Family – My True Love He Dwells On The Mountain08 Lay Low Lay – Bird In The Belly – After The City09 Bonny Kate / Jenny’s Chickens – Ben And Charlie Lennon – Within A Mile Of Kilty 210 What Is That Blood On Thy Shirt Sleeve – Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones – A Year Too Late And A Month Too Soon11 The Grey Mare – Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones – A Year Too Late And A Month Too Soon12 All Things Are Quite Silent – Dónal Maguire – The Clergy’s Lamentation13 Gallows Pole – Willie Watson – Folksinger, Vol. 214 Take This Hammer (Feat. The Fairfield Four) – Willie Watson – Folksinger, Vol. 215 Irish Beauty – Aly Bain, Phil Cunningham – No Rush16 Mary Anning – Iona Lane – Hallival17 Bird On The Bough – The Brothers Gillespie – The Merciful Road18 Wingrove Road – The Brothers Gillespie – The Merciful Road19 The Month Of January – Rita & Sarah Keane – Bring My Love To Connemara: Sean-Nós Singing From Co. Galway20 Slow And Easy – Jimmy Cotton – Dealing Eith The Devil’s Music – Bluesmen In Britain21 Galtee Rangers / Glentaun Reel / Callaghans – Joel Andersson – Irish Harmonica22 The Lakes Of Ponchetrain – Deanta – Ready For The Storm23 Birmingham Hotel – Reg Meuross – Dragonfly24 Fair And Tender Ladies –  Bella Gaffney & Sam Kelly – Single25 Kismul’s Galley – Moira Kerr – Time And Tide26 Hector The Hero –  Aly Bain And Phil Cunningham – No Rush