Mera Royle and the Young Folk Award launch
The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.
This week, session tracks come from Young Folk Award winner Mera Royle and we open the 2019 award for entries.
The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.
This week, Mark chats to young Manx musician Mera Royle and introduces live session tracks by Mera.
Mera, a talented harp and fiddle player, won the ±«Óãtv Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2018. On this week's show, we open the 2019 contest for entries.
The Young Folk Award is Radio 2's annual search for the best young folk and acoustic musicians in the UK. To enter you must be aged between 16 and 21, play folk, roots or acoustic music of any kind, and be resident in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
The event has been running for more than 20 years and alumni include Jim Moray, Jackie Oates, Blair Dunlop, Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente, Megan Henwood, Bella Hardy, Lucy Ward, Wildwood Kin, Cara Dillon's fiddle player Niall Murphy and many more from across the UK.
Plus the usual blend of exciting new releases, classic tracks and news from the folk world.
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Wildwood Kin
Never Alone
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Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys
Morning Train
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Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
The Song Of The Iron Road
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The Memory Band
After Night
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Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
All The While
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Bella Hardy
The Oak & The Ivy
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Mera Royle
New Blues (Session for The Folk Show, Radio 2)
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O'Hooley & Tidow
Colne Valley Hearts
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Meic Stevens
Ghost Town
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Mera Royle
Tubular Bells (Session for The Folk Show, Radio 2)
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Kris Drever
Scapa Flow
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- Wed 5 Jun 2019 21:00±«Óãtv Radio 2