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Blessings and curses

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Mark looks ahead to Radio 2's Virtual Folk Festival (on 1 August) and plays new music by Joachim Cooder, Finbar Furey, Shirley Collins and John Doyle.

Plus songs about museums, blackbirds, curses and planet earth.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Fara

    Whisky You're The Devil

  • Finbar Furey & Áine Furey

    Blue Jewel In The Sky

  • Peggy Seeger

    The Mother

  • John Doyle

    The Coolaney Reel / The Winding Stair / Rossagh's Rambles

  • Polly Bolton

    Honeyblood

  • Jez Lowe

    The High Part Of The Town

  • Joachim Cooder

    Come Along Buddy

  • Harp and a Monkey

    The Ballad of Wisbech Museum

  • Capercaillie

    Mile Marbhaisg (A Thousand Curses)

  • Levellers

    Food Roof Family

  • Shirley Collins

    Barbara Allen

  • Sam Sweeney

    Steppy Downs Road

  • Ninebarrow

    The Hour Of The Blackbird (feat. Hart Voices & The Chantry Singers)

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 Jul 2020 21:00