Wednesday, 9:00pm to 10:00pm Folk music – classic songs and emerging artists, from the Australian folk scene and around the world – Phil Bates and Jane Klein bring you the best of folk.
An hour of your folk favourites – if they’re not already, they will be soon!
Get in touch with us at folk@2nurfm.com – we’d love to hear from you!
Phil Bates Phil’s folk performing career blossomed as the guitar player for Newcastle’s iconic bush band the Rum Culls . Since then, he’s added various guitars and banjos to his wardrobe of instruments. And he’s to be found strumming and warbling regularly at Hunter Wetlands and various other events. Previously he hosted Monday Folk on 2NURFM, and now brings his wealth of folk knowledge to Classic Folk .
Jane Klein Jane’s love affair with folk music was shaped by the revival of interest in traditional folk in the United Kingdom. She is fascinated by how different artists and different generations create these songs afresh. New talent and well-loved classics feature in her favourites.
Previous Programs
22 Sep 2021, 10pm
22 Sep 2021, 10pm
Old, renewed and new
On this edition of Classic Folk, Jane Klein mixes it up a bit.
15 Sep 2021, 8pm
15 Sep 2021, 8pm
Musical Influences
18 Aug 2021, 11am
18 Aug 2021, 11am
Songs inspired by the cold
11 Aug 2021, 11am
11 Aug 2021, 11am
Misunderstandings and heavy loads
4 Aug 2021, 11pm
4 Aug 2021, 11pm
Phil’s favourites
28 Jul 2021, 11am
28 Jul 2021, 11am
A handsome lad
21 Jul 2021, 11pm
21 Jul 2021, 11pm
Pretty Faces
14 Jul 2021, 11am
14 Jul 2021, 11am
National Songs
Latest Stories From Classic Folk
Show Playlists Wednesday 15th September 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 18th August 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 11th August 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 4th August 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 28th July 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 21st July 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 14th July 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 7th July 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 30th June 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 23rd June 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 16th June 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 9th June 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 2nd June 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 26th May 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 19th May 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 12th May 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 5th May 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 28th April 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 21st April 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 14th April 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 7th April 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 31st March 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 24th March 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 17th March 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 10th March 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 3rd March 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 24th February 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 17th February 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 10th February 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 3rd February 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 27th January 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 20th January 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 13th January 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 6th January 2021 – 9:00pm Wednesday 21st October 2020 – 9:00pm Wednesday 14th October 2020 – 9:00pm Wednesday 7th October 2020 – 9:00pm Wednesday 30th September 2020 – 9:00pm Sorry, there are no details available for this episode
Nearly Midnight – David Francey
Nyittiny Boodja (Cold Country) – Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse
Lillywhite Girl – Seth Lakeman
Long Shadows – Maddy Prior
Cold Light of Dawn – Lugh Damen
Listen to the Wind – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
The Coldest Winds Do Blow – Chris While & Julie Matthews
As Blackbirds Go By – Mixed Metaphor (Pete Smith & Gary Holmes)
The Poor Ditching Boy – Fairport Convention
The Salmno Leap/Flip the Calico/Jenny Tied the Bonnet Tight/Crooks of the Kingdom – Old Blind Dogs
For Shame of Doing Wrong – Syd Straw
Bones and Feathers – Martin Simpson
Denis Murphy;s/The 42 Pound Cheque – Planxty
Katy Cruel – Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton
Alison Gross – Steeleye Span
Don’t Let Me Come Home a Stranger – Robin and Linda Williams
Kilgour’s Lament – Ian Milroy
Melanie’s Waltz – Enda Kenny
Hard Luck Stories – The Bushwackers
Autumn Leaves – The Magpie Arc
Dink’s Song – Marcus Mumford, Oscar Isaac & Punch Brothers
The Auld Triangle – Luke Kelly
An Bhean Dubh (Black-Haired Woman) – Open the Door for Three
You Can’t Stay Here – Stan Rogers
Mary and the Soldier – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
Dark-Eyed Gypsies – Chloe & Jason Roweth
Jock Stewart – Dougie Maclean
Anderson’s Coast – Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
Kontinentet Kalder – Fru Skagerrak
Dark-Eyed Lad – Ruth Notman
Willy O’Winsbury – Pentangle
Willie Stewart/Molly Rankin – Eddi Reader
Black Jack Davy – Steeleye Span
Jack O’Rion – Graham Dodsworth
The Bonny Light Horseman – Kent Daniel
Billy Sheahan – Chloe & Jason Roweth
Jock o’Hazeldean – Taliska
Paddy’s Boccadillo – Senor Cabrales
Girls in our Town – Mandy Breeze & Doug Kelly
Just as the Tide was Flowing – Tony Rose
The Charmer – Seth Lakeman
Lassie Wi’ The Yellow Coatie – Daniel Kelly
Matty Groves – Fairport Convention
Mo Ghile Mear – Iara O’Lionaird & Steve Cooney
What You Will Be – Earthbound
Sally Wheatley – Bob Fox & Stu Luckley
Jenny Picking Cockles/The Skipping Lambs – Kevin Dempsey & Rosie Carson
Ich weiss ein fein brauns Magedelein – Walther & Treyz
Flowers on my Doorstep – Montgomery Church
Song for Ireland – Mary Black
Waltzing Matilda – John Schumann & the Vagabond Crew
Flower of Scotland – Highlander
Sign Language – Penny Larkins & Carl Pannuzzo feat. Mal Webb
My Town – Kate & Anna McGarrigle
The Hard Times of Old England – Steeleye Span
Waltzing Matilda – Bruce Mathiske
Fields of Gold – Celtic Woman
Band of Gold – Seth Lakeman
Swag on my Shoulder – Larrikins
The Palmer’s Song – The Ragllins
Farewell to the Gold – James Keelaghan
Varischetti – Craig Sinclair
Land of Bright Gold – Cloudstreet
Streets of Forbes – The Bushwackers
Close Shave – Andy Irvine
The Silver and the Gold – Vin Garbutt
The Gold Ring – Dempsey, Robson, Tweed
You, Me & the Velvet Sea – Emily Davis
The Wreck of the Nancy Lee – Tom Lewis & Poles Apart
Gone to America – Steeleye Span
The Shores of Old Blighty – Bob Fox & Stu Luckley
Davy Lowston – The Maritime Crew
Mingulay Boat Song – Fisherman’s Friends
Shallow Brown – Coope, Boyes & Simpson
The Bay of Biscay – Kevin Dempsey & Rosie Carson
The Lochaber Dance/Chloe’s Passion – Tony McManus
Greek Lightning – Bob Fox
Catch Me A Cloud – Enda Kenny
Kiingdom Come – Old Man Luedecke
London Lights – Maz O’Connor
Lambton Lights – Bob Corbett
Reynard the Fox – Graham Dodsworth
Pontevedra – Senor Cabrales
The Handweaver and the Factory Maid/The Musical Priest – Stray Hens
Caledonia – Dougie Maclean
Follow Me Up To Carlow – Plaxty
The Blacksmith – Phil Bates
Becoming This Man – Montgomery Church
Andy McKinnon’s Jig – Manran
Cordelia Brown – Edward II
The Diamantina Drover – Stray Hens
Sally Free and Easy – Show of Hands
Mary Magdalene – The Thomsons
A Certain Age – Caroline Hammond
The Last of the Cassette Men – John Flanagan Trio
Two Toes the Magpie – Crow Mountain
Precious Times – Peter Miller
Summer-Winter Phase – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
White Squall – Enda Kenny
The Coldest Winds Do Blow – Chris While & Julie Matthews
One Misty Moisty Morning – Steeleye Span
The Month of January – Altan
The Poor Ditching Boy – Fairport Convention
Song for a Winter Night – Tommy Leonard
A Winter Song – David Francey
An Emotional Winter – Pete Hawkes
Gypsy Winter – William Alexander
Follow the Heron – Karine Polwart
Jigs – Heartstring Quartet
When First I Met Amanda – Winter Wilson
Heavy Is My Fate – Open the Door for Three
No Country – Stephen Fearing
Pige Ruadh – Capercaillie
Charlie is my Darling – Eddi Reader
When the Ship Comes In – Bob Dylan
Bill From Erskineville – Chloe & Jason Roweth
Dance With Me – Bob Corbett
The Carnival – Craig & Simone Dawson
Wasn’t That A Party – Cloudstreet
Hay de Gie – Senor Cabrales
When I First Went to Caledonia – Riogh
Clinch Mountain Backstep – Innes Campbell & Present Company
Darling Cory – Crooked Still
King of California – Brooks Williams
Pretty Fair Maid In Her Garden – Cup O’Joe
Wayfaring Stranger – Flying Emus
The Bonny Light Horseman – Kent Daniel
Hard Times Come Again No More – Arlo Guthrie
The Mary Ellen Carter – Enda Kenny
Ashokan Farewell – Evan Stover, Jay Ungar, Russ Barenberg, Mat Glaser, Molly Mason
Song for Ireland – Mary Black
The Auld Triangle – Luke Kelly
Morrison’s/The Tailor’s Thimble/Wellington’s – De Dannan
Begging Song – Mandy Breeze & Doug Kelly
Riverina Dreaming – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
The Waking Hour – David Francey
Waking Dreams (Awake, Awake) – Eliza Carthy & Martin Carthy
Slaggy Island Farewell – Vin Garbutt
Transit of Venus – The Doctor’s Wife
John Barlycorn – Graham dodsworth
Wishful Thinking – Michelle Chandler
Memories of Scotland – Mattias Perez Trio
Dancing Under the Gallows – Chria While & Julie Matthews
Song and Dance Man – Mike McClellan
The Outside Track – Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
Frozen Man – The Albion Band
Cradle Song – The Wish List
Taropatch Lament – The Do Riders
Beeswing – Richard Thompson
Meet On The Ledge – Fairport Convention
Donal Og/The Lea Pig – Tony McManus
All Our Hearts – The New Graces
May the Fourth – Kay Proudlove
No Half Measures – Chloe & Jason Roweth
The Roses Three – Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
Bonaparte’s Lament – Elilza Carthy & Norma Waterson
Sleeping Alone – Montgomery Church
Si Bheag Si Mohr – Mixed Metaphor
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon – The Pepperjacks
Madonna Del Mare – Kavisha Mazzella
Dust of Uruzgan – Fred Smith
Postcard from Iraq – Bob Rodgers
Khe Sanh (Long Tan version) – John Schumann & the Vagabond Crew
Dreams of Peace on Paper Wings – Bernard Carney
The Flowers and the Guns – Viin Garbutt
The Shores of Old Blighty – Bob Fox & Stu Luckley
No Man’s Land – Eric Bogle
Tenting Tonight – The Young’Uns
Riflemen of War – Seth Lakeman
God and the Knights – Rough Red
Across the Western Plains – Cloudstreet
Burke’s Lament – Kamerunga
Our Milk and Honey Land – The Fagans
Uluru and You – Dark Horses
Ngany Koorliny (I’m Going) – Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse
Where the Cane Fires Burn – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
Mountain Magic – Cary Lewincamp
I Want – The Good Lovelies
Skipjack On My Line – The Pepperjacks
Family Love – Steve Ashley
Serving Girls’ Holiday – Maddy Prior and Tim Hart
The Teetotaller/St Anne’s – De Dannan
Freedom on the Wallaby – Chloe & Jason Roweth
False Knight on the Road – Mandy Breeze & Doug Kelly
Take the River – The Raglins
Dreaming of Desert Nights – Stu Harcourt
Come On Up To The House – Maria Quilles & Rory Cloud
Shiver Me Timbers – Phil Bates
Fred Finn’s Reel/Sailing Into Walpole’s Marsh – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
Earl O’March”s Daughter – Old Blind Dogs
Christmas With You – Bernard Carney
A Week Before Easter – Rosie Carson & Kevin Dempsey
Easter Snow – Christy Moore
The Foggy Dew – The Chieftains with Sinead O’Connor
Easter Lilies – Ralph McTell
Easter Island – Enda Kenny
Fur Cocaine – Mixed Metaphor
The Longest Day and the Shortest Night – Colum Sands
Lady Eleanor – Lindisfarne
Dancing at Whitsun – Tim Hart
Farewell, Farewell – Fairport Convention
Garden of Eden – Kim Yang
Summer-Winter Phase – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
The Maid and the Palmer – Steeleye Span
Glen Caladh Castle – Battlefield Band
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh – Planxty
The Auld Triangle – Luke Kelly
Gleanntain Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair – Altan
Music in my Mother’s House – Enda Kenny
All Along the Wild Atlantic Way – Aoife Scott
The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow – Jarlath Henderson
Judas Kiss – The Doctor’s Wife
Segregating Sheep – Colum Sands
The Wanderer – Lugh Damen & Retaw Bruce
King of the Blues – Déanta
Fremantle Sand – Dark Horses
Long Mile Road – Enda Kenny
Charlie is My Darling – Eddi Reader
Sapper’s Lullaby – Fred Smith
Circle of Stone – James Keelaghan
While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping – Faustus
Victor Podham – Jason & Chloe Roweth
The Love Cats – The Do Riders
All Our Hearts – The New Graces
Sam Cormier/Gemima/The Devon Flute Player’s Salute to Shetland – Ross Couper & Tom Oakes
Fishing Blues – Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Shoals of Herring – Bob Fox
A Trawler’s Tale – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
Down in the Goldmine – Cloudstreet
Varischetti – Craig Sinclair
House in the Country – Albion Band
Freeborn Man – The Dubliners
The Bonny Light Horseman – Kent Daniel
Carved in Stone – Chris While & Julie Matthews
Daoiri Farrell – The Unquiet Grave
Tom Paine’s Bones – Stray Hens
Lumberjack – Good Lovelies
Peppers and Tomatoes – Ralph McTell
Lord Franklin – Pentangle
The Death of Queen Jane – Bothy Band
The Hairy Slip Jigs – Becky Taylor
Wish I Was A Train – Clydestreet
Lambton Lights – Bob Corbett
The Death of Ben Hall – Gary Shearston
An Leimras/Harris Dance – Brighde Campbell
The Outside Track – Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
The GalwayShawl – Daoiri Farrell
The Boy Can’t Win – Enda Kenny
Bill and the Bear – Cloudstreet
Lachlan Tigers – Bushwackers
Creeping Jane – The Full English
Maggie in the Wood – Fiddle Tunes
It Couldn’t Be Done – Vin Garbutt
Davis and Golightly – Jez Lowe
The Tullaghan Lasses/The Cameronian – Altan
Devil Come Knocking – Steve Tyson
The Devil’s Courtship – Alan Reid
A Heart Needs A Home – Richard and Teddy Thompson
My Town – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Heart Like A Wheel – Stu Luckley and Bob Fox
My Love is like a Red Red Rose – Eddi Reader
Portrait of my Wife – Seth Lakeman
The Blacksmith – Phil Bates
Raglan Road – Martin Simpson and Jessica Ruby Simpson
Poor Old Horse – The Albion Band
Shallow Brown – Coope Boyes & Simpson
Meet Me On The Corner – Billy Mitchell & Bob Fox
A Certain Age – Caroliine Hammond
Nice to Meet You – Fred Smith
The Dark-Eyed Sailor – Ruth Notman
Love Song of a Simple Man – Sweet Songs & Soft Guitar
More Than Meets – Enda Kenny
Big Meeting Day – Jez Lowe
Two Toes the Magpie – Crow Mountain
Meet You At The Market – Cary Lewincamp
Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling) – Seth Lakeman
The Undertow – Show of Hands
Gentle on my MInd – Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
The Lakes of Pontchartrain – Paul Brady
Cornish Leaving Song – Wheeze & Suck Band
Caledonia – Dougie Maclean
Cliffs of Dooneen – Planxty
The South Wind – Pat Kirtley
Boys of Bedlam – Mandy Breeze & Doug Kelly
Butcher Boy – Cloudstreet
The Smell of Rain – Enda Kenny
Van Diemen’s Land – The Bushwackers
Sally Gee – Bob Fox & Stu Luckley
Round the Corner, Sally – Tom Lewis & Poles Apart
Sally Gally – John John Festival
Stolen Car/Shadow and Light – Bernard Carney
Jim Jones at Botany Bay – Underlander
Wild Colonial Boy – Bush Gothic
Outlaw Frank Gardiner – Andy Irvine with Rens Van Der Zalm
Ben Hall’s Gang – Raglins
Thunderbolt – Lionel Long
Stringybark Creek – Kamerunga
They Laid Old Ned to Rest – Rough Red
Poor Ned Kelly – Muswellbrook Bush Band
Blackleg Miner – Steeleye Span
No Whisky for Paddy – Pete Hawkes
Dance in the Rain – Mike McClellan
Big River – Bob Fox & Billy Mitchell
Clouds of Glory – Kavisha Mazzella
Windy Harbour Day – Bernard Carney
I Hope You Dance – Hanne Kah
And When They Dance – Taliska
Jiggle – The Doctor’s Wife
Follow Me Home – Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
The Roar of the Crowd – The Fagans
After the Rain – Cary Lewincamp
School Days Over – The Young’Uns
Love Minus Zero/No Limit – Eliza Gilkyson
The Ballad of Accounting/The Ledger – Stray Hens
Follow the Heron – Karine Polwart
Mary Reibey – Maryen Cairns
The Bonny Light Horseman – Kent Daniel
The Witch of the Westmorland – Kate Rusby
From Nowendoc to Nundle – Rick Pointon
Race to be King – Seth Lakeman
Katy Cruel – Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton
Golden Kelp – John John Festival
The Woman who Planted Trees – Emily Barker
Catch Me A Cloud – Enda Kenny
Farmer’s Daughter – The New Graces
Roadfrog-Orkney Mix – Becky Taylor
Billy of Tea – The Bushwackers
Bare-Legged Kate – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
The Accursed Kerryman/Muireann’s Jig – Tony McManus
Sweet Liberty of Life – Finbar Furey
Pretty Fair Maid in her Garden – Cup O’ Joe
A Pint of Plain – Daori Farrell
Isle au Haut Lullaby – Penny Davies & Roger Ilott
Fishing Blues – Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Creeping Jane – Open the Door for Three
Sorry the Day I was Married – Tim Hart & Maddy Prior
The Shearing’s Not For You – Kate Delaney
The Springtime it Brings on the Shearing – Phil Bates
Then You’ll Remember Me – De Dannan
John Hill – The Young’Uns
Blenheim House/Grimstock – Thee Rheingans Sisters
What Can I Do to Make You Happy – Winter Wilson
Long Mile Road – Enda Kenny
Another Fall of Rain – The Bushwackers
The Kesh Jig/Give Us a Drink of Water/The Famous Ballymote – The Bothy Band
Pace Egging Song – Kate Rusby
Willy O’Winsbury – Pentangle
Bogie’s Bonny Belle/Valvotun Yon Valssi – Sula
Dennis Murphy’s/The 42 Pound Cheque/John Ryan’s Polka – Planxty
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