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Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar in Session

Mark Radcliffe presents a session with multi-award-winning duo Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar.

An hour of the best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

This week, multi-award winning duo Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar perform tracks from their new album Utopia and Wasteland.

Greg and Ciaran won Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2's Young Folk Award in 2013. Since then, they have gone on to release both solo and duo albums, picking up the Horizon Award at the 2014 Folk Awards for best emerging act.

They have both been involved with some of folk music's most exciting projects, Greg with The Transports and Shake The Chains, and Ciaran with Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys.

Plus, the usual mix of new releases, old classics and news from the folk world.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 2 May 2018 19:00

Music Played

  • Usher’s Island

    Cairndaisy

    • Ushers Island.
  • Lisa Knapp

    Till April Is Dead

    • Till April Is Dead.
  • The Old Hat Dance Band

    The Flying Pieman / Ripple of the Teign / Gipping Jig

    • Stepping Up: A History of the New Wave of English Country Dance Music.
  • Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

    Line Two (Radio 2 Session, 2 May 2018)

  • Pharis & Jason Romero

    Sweet Old Religion

    • Sweet Old Religion.
  • Hawk & A Hacksaw

    Night Sneaker

    • Forest Bathing.
  • Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy

    The Beast In Me

    • Anchor.
  • Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

    De Gule Huis (Radio 2 Session, 2 May 2018)

  • Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

    All The While (Radio 2 Session, 2 May 2018)

  • Hamish Imlach

    Men of Knoydart

    • Hamish Imlach.
  • Jackie Oates

    Hail! Hail! The First on May

    • The Spyglass & The Herringbone.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 May 2018 19:00