At ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ with Greg Russell
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and solo performances recorded at home by UK folk musicians. For this episode, itβs the turn of Sheffield-based musician Greg Russell.
From her garage studio in Wiltshire, Verity Sharp calls up musicians who are rooted in traditional music, exercises their home-recording skills, and asks them to sing something thatβs been resonating for them during lockdown. In this edition, she contacts Greg Russell in Sheffield and for him itβs the political thrust versus the deceptively delicate melody of Labi Siffreβs β(Something Inside) So Strongβ thatβs keeping him occupied.
In this period of social distancing, how is music helping us keep connected to the things that matter? With its deep links to people, communities, land, nature and history, folk song has much to offer at this point in time.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.
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