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Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart in Britain's remotest village

Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart speak and sing in the remote village of Inverie, after two lengthy journeys.

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

This week, two of Scotland's leading folk voices join Mark for music and chat from a truly remote location: the village of Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula in Lochaber.

Local community pub, The Old Forge, is the most remote in the UK, because Inverie can only be reached by a 17-mile hike or a 7-mile ferry.

Julie made the hike and Karine took the ferry, and en route, they began to compose new music in the company of harpist Ingrid Henderson and fiddler Iain MacFarlane.

On this Folk Show, Mark hears Julie and Karine speak and sing in Inverie.

Details of the musicians' long journeys can also be heard this Christmas on 'Pilgrimage For a Pint' on ±«Óãtv Radio 4 and ±«Óãtv Sounds.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • A Winter Union

    Ring Out, Solstice Bells

  • TRU

    Selkie Song (Young O'Kane)

  • The Clancy Brothers & Louisa Jo Killen

    The Mermaid

  • Angharad Jenkins & Huw Warren

    Roedd Yn Y Wlad Honno

  • Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Iain MacFarlane & Ingrid Henderson

    ’S fada bhuam fhìn bonn Beinn Eadarainn (Live session in Inverie, 2023)

  • Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Iain MacFarlane & Ingrid Henderson

    Travel These Ways (Live session in Inverie, 2023)

  • Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Iain MacFarlane & Ingrid Henderson

    Here's a Health to Inverie (Live session in Inverie, 2023)

  • Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Iain MacFarlane & Ingrid Henderson

    The Robin Set (Robin Shure In Hairst / Mo Chuachag Laghach Thu / The Sound of Sleat) (Live session in Inverie, 2023)

  • Steve Ashley

    Fire and Wine

  • Clive Carroll

    Buffalo

  • Villagers & Lisa Hannigan

    Little Drummer Boy

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Dec 2023 21:00