Wil Walker's Take On Tradition

16/07/2024

Another top line-up of recording and festival-performing folk artistes - in this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 16/7/24, including:

1. Portsmouth Shantymen - Shiny-Oh
2. Seamus Begley and Jim Murray - Reels
3. Contraband - Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
4. David Carroll and Friends - Down Among the Dead Men
5. Valerie Casey - Casadh an tSúgáin
6. Elaine Reilly - Madame Bonaparte / The Boys of Ballysadare
7. Breabach - Fàil ì, Fàil ó
8. Kirsty Hannah - Betsy Walton
9. Jim Eldon - Adieu To Old England
10. Steve Turner - Come Come My Brave Boys
11. Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones - The Hunslet and Holbeck
12. Grace Smith Trio - Quadrille
13. The Furrow Collective - The Wild Wild Berry
14. VRï - Aberhonddu
15. Pat Fleming, Steve Cooney & Timmy O'Connor - Polkas - The Cascade Polkas / Billy Mahonys / The One I Know

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

16/07/2024

If there’s such a thing as ‘cutting edge trad’, you’ll find it here – all new tracks in this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 9/7/24, including:

1. Simon Care & Gareth Turner - Goldrush/Thomas' Morris/Chasing the Jack
2. Church Street Shuffle - Loch an Duin
3. Lawrence County - Bonny Light Horseman
4. Piers Lewin & John Patrick Elliott - Spanish Ladies
5. Karen Killeen-Jones - All Things Are Quite Silent
6. Cli Donnellan - Search for Home - The Curlew
7. Tara Viscardi & Robert Harvey - O'Sullivan's March/The Crane
8. Laura Jane Wilkie - “I am Sad in the Braes of the Glen”
9. Face the West - The Knockdhu
10. Valtos ft. Julie Fowlis - A' Chuthag (The Cuckoo)
11. Dlù - Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais
12. Jiggy - Eilean
13. Frog on a Bike Ceilidh Band - Jump at the Sun

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

02/07/2024

Back with a fresh show featuring some of the latest sounds in the trad scene - this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 2/7/24, where you’ll hear:

1. Luke Gannon - Dinny O'Brien's Reel/George Whyte's Favourite/The Maid Of Mount Kisco(Reels)
2. Conor Caldwell Music - Yes, We have no bananas!
3. Cunning Folk - Cry Little Sister
4. Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds - A Blacksmith Courted Me
5. Joseph Decosimo, Luke Richardson, Cleek Schrey - Prettiest Little Girl in the County
6. Reitir - Jenta Med Augo Blå
7. Landless - My Lagan Love
8. Cathal Caulfield - My Sorrow Is Greater Than I Can Tell
9. Tarren - Neither Maid Nor Man
10. The Jolly Grogsters - Hog Eye Man (Live)
11. LANKUM - The Rocky Road to Dublin (Live in Dublin)
12. Johnny Campbell - Homeward Bound
13. Rob Harbron - Aphelion
14. Capercaillie (feat. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra) - MacLeod's Farewell / The Earl's Chair

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

18/06/2024

Sometimes life takes over, so it's gotta be repeat shows for the next couple of weeks... which I hope you'll enjoy nonetheless! This week’s podcast, first broadcast on 15/6/21, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 18/6/24 – where you’ll hear:

1. The Fiddle Case - The False True Love
2. Tom Gamble - Spencer the Rover
3. Catherine-Ann MacPhee - O Teannaibh Diuth Is Togaibh Fonn
4. WÖR - Aria
5. Ali and Sundry - Homage à Philippe Bruneau
6. Boldwood - Stoke Golding Country Dance
7. Gadarene - Mr. Key's Hornpipe
8. Hamish Henderson - The Freedom Come All Ye
9. Will Marshall - 6/8 Marches
10. Fullset - Thaledo’s
11. Pigyn Clust - Blodau Llundain
12. Lowp - Tally i o the Grinder/Would the Minister Not Dance
13. Desi Wilkinson - Sligo Fantasia
14. Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - Fred Finn's Reel/Sailing Into Walpole's Marsh
15. Will Noble, John C**king, Andrew Rogers & Ian Russell - Gossip John

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

11/06/2024

More trad sounds from around UK and Ireland, including some of the acts playing live this week – all in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 11/6/24, where you’ll hear

1. Remorae - I Drew My Ship
2. Tarren - Salt & Sweet
3. Jack Rutter - Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight
4. Cynefin - Dole Teifi / Lliw'r Heulwen
5. Charlie Lennon - The Monaghan
6. Padraig O'Keefe - Callaghan's / The Rights of Man
7. Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill - Tell Her I Am / Gallagher's Frolics
8. Josephine Marsh - The Old Pensioneer / The Garavogue / Ricky's White Face
9. Caroline Keane & Tom Delany - Come in from the Rain / O'Dea's / The Girl of the Big House
10. Evie Waddell - Uamh an Oir
11. Hamish Napier Music - Jig of the Currach
12. Topette - Galician Sher

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

04/06/2024

Leaning towards the Scottish, but with much variety herein – in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 4/6/24, where you can experience:

1. Owl Light Trio - If You Will Not Have Me, You May Let Me Go/Winder's Hornpipe/Derby Hunt
2. TRÚ - Is fada liom uaim í
3. Brìghde Chaimbeul - A Bhriogais Uallach / Highean Donn nan Gobhar
4. Hannah Rarity - Land O' The Leal
5. Rod Paterson - Guidwife Coont The Lawin/The Coggie's Revenge
6. Kris Drever - Westlin’ Winds
7. Banter - Morgan Rattler
8. John Cunningham - Celtic Society's Quickstep / 42nd Highlanders Farewell
9. Louise Bichan | Photographer/Musician - Centennial March (Glen Burnie Lodge)
10. Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach - Ghlinne Garadh
11. The Deep Dark Woods - The Boatman
12. David Faulkner & Steve Turner - Gillan Na Drover / The Rugged Saylor

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

28/05/2024

Fresh podcast, checking out some of the new releases released since I last checked! – available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 28/5/24, where you’ll hear:

1. Broadoak - The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun
2. Tom Kitching with Marit Fält - Polska for a Lost Rubber Duck
3. Carlos Sweeney McCartin - The Rolling Wave / The Lark on the Strand / The Banks of Lough Gowna
4. Malin Lewis - Hiraeth
5. Jacken Elswyth - White C**kade / Big Sciota
6. Goblin Band - Black Nag
7. Pine Tree Flyers - Smith's Reel/Pointe-au-Pic
8. G**o Kvifte Nesheim & Floating Sofa Quartet - Devil Among the Sailors
9. Mikey Kenney - Fiddle and Voice - Our Goodman / The Lily
10. Macdara Ó Faoláin - Foraois an Iúir/Fear na Fliúite/Port na Síochána
11. Cunning Folk - Lyke Wake Dirge
12. Genticorum - Le Persuadeur

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

30/04/2024

Quite a lot of fiddles, but some lovely songs too – all in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 30/4/24, where you’ll find:

1. The Urban Folk Quartet - One Day You'll Be Right/The Clock
2. 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 - The Cuckoo
3. The Kimberleys - The Begging Song / Strong Anna
4. Fiona Hunter - The Laird o Elfin
5. Sinéad McKenna - Sean McGuire Style / The Kilteery Reel / The Mohill
6. David Sanders - The Larchill Jig / Humours of Glensheen / Linnane's Fancy
7. Séamíe O'Dowd - The Silver Spire
8. Lady Maisery - The Selkie [Live]
9. Ross Couper Music Band - Reels AF
10. Claire White Shetland with Robbie Leask - Minnie o Shirva's
11. Caffrey/McGurk/Madge - Searching For Lambs
12. Melrose Quartet - Liverpool / James Fagan's
13. Frankie Archer Music - Lovely Joan

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

23/04/2024

Music for a happy St. George’s Day, while not going overboard on the English stuff – in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 23/4/24, where you’ll hear:

1. The Mellstock Band - The Triumph
2. Martin Simpson - Kit's Tune / When a Knight Won His Spurs
3. Martin Simpson - Alan Tyne of Harrow
4. Eliza Carthy - Here’s a Sad Goodbye
5. Anne Briggs - The Cruel Mother
6. Lau - Riad (live)
7. Brian OhEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich - The Pink, The Lily, and the Blooming Rose
8. Jack Houston - Bun na hAbhann
9. Kevin Camus & Yann Gourvil - Irish Music Duo - Mc Kenna
10. The Sea Band - Radcliff Highway
11. David Murphy - Eleanor Plunkett
12. Brìghde Chaimbeul- Pìobaireachd Nan Eun
13. Dan Walsh - Banjo/Vocal/Guitar - Chief O’Neill’s / Cork Hornpipe
14. The O'Loughlin Family - Reels: King of the Clans/Paddy Bartley’s/The Ballinamore

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

16/04/2024

Wil's been away, so a repeat show this week, and a chance to hear again the programme first broadcast three years ago on 13/4/21 - available now to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 16/4/24, where you’ll be reacquainted with:

1. Rob Say - Bonny Tyneside/Napoleon's March
2. Jim Causley - Twenty-One Years In Dartmoor
3. Niamh Ní Charra - Donnelly’s Arm/Pretty Peggy/Julie Delaney’s
4. JB Samzun & Charles Monod - The Collier's/The Limestone Rock/The Road to Lisdoonvarna
5. Maxwell Quartet - The Burning of the Piper’s Hut/The Marquis of Huntley/Miss Gordon of Gight
6. Steve Crawford & Sabrina Palm - Scone Palace/Droim Chonga
7. Naragonia Quartet - Wiske's bezem/Talenthee
8. Steve Turner - The Rambling Sailor
9. Sileas - The Castlebay Scrap/Stuarts Rant
10. Gwenan Gibbard - Mesur Dyn
11. Laoise Kelly - Aisling Na Sí
12. Rachel Walker - An t-Iarla Diùrach

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

09/04/2024

Another whole bundle of new stuff, and more – in this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 9/4/24, where you’ll find:

1. Wychbury - Geordie
2. Ben Nicholls - Rolling Hornpipe
3. Nick Granata - Nailer's Song
4. Landless - The Fisherman's Wife
5. Jason Rouse - Set Dance: Rodney’s Glory
6. Louise Bichan | Photographer/Musician - Auch
7. Andy Cahan and Joseph Decosimo - Roscoe Waltz
8. Session A9 - Waltzes
9. Philippe Barnes - January Snows
10. Blowzabella - Blowzabella/ General Toast/Blowzabella
11. Leveret - The Rising Sun
12. Fiona Ross Music & Shane O'Mara - Kelvin's Purling Stream
13. Christine Kydd Music - The Back o Reres Hill
14. The Paul McKenna Band - The Wise Maid

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

02/04/2024

Checking out some of this coming week's live music, as well a smattering of new releases, and more – in this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 2/4/24, where you’ll hear:

1. Altan - The Yellow Tinker (Slow Reel)
2. Tarran - Branches
3. James Ruff, Tenor and Early Gaelic Harp - Molly MacAlpin
4. Fay Hield - Hare Spell
5. The Rheingans Sisters - Östbjörka
6. Fiona J Mackenzie Music - Music Box plays Bonnie Dundee
7. Shovel Dance Collective - Joe Bane’s (Press Play and Peckham Studio, London)
8. Davie Stewart - Macpherson's Rant
9. Andy May - musician and pipe makerTrio - Tweedside
10. Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdom - Yarmouth Town
11. Bob Fox & Benny Graham - The Old Miner
12. Will Finn and Rosie Calvert- Paddy's Lamentation
13. Katie Grennan - Beare Island (Reels)
14. Jerry O'Sullivan - Róise Bheag / Róise Mhór / Danny O'Donnell's (Germans)

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

26/03/2024

Songs and tunes for Eastertide, and much more – this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 26/3/24, where you’ll hear:

1. Mike Ruff Music - The Easter Tree And Pace Egging Song
2. Remorae - Johnny's On The Water
3. Miguel Girão Music - II Movement: The Deerness Reel / Shelders Geo
4. Jackie Oates - Work Life Out To Keep Life In
5. Twm Morys & Gwyneth Glyn - Ffarwél i blwy Llangywer
6. Roger Watson - Rio Grande
7. Séamus Ennis - The New Demesnes
8. The Byrne Brothers - Red Haired Mary
9. Far Flung Collective - Nuala Iona's Jig / Trip to Loch Skipport
10. Granny's Attic - Country Hirings
11. Liam O'Connor - Easter Snow (Slow Air)
12. Junior Brother - The Lambs on the Green Hills
13. An Dannsa Dub/Kreed - A Nighean Nan Geug (Kreed RMX)

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

25/03/2024

A new exhibition at Cecil Sharp House features photographs taken by Cecil Sharp of the people who sang to him. Cecil Sharp, who died 100 years ago this year, collected almost five thousand songs from across England and the Appalachians, an

19/03/2024

Another 'almost all new' show – this week’s podcast, ready to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 19/3/24, where you’ll hear:

1. Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle - Sonny Walsh's
2. Tom McConville - Jeannie's Waltz
3. Emily Portman & Rob Harbron - Down in the Meadow
4. Jiggy - Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile
5. Daoirí Farrell - Blackwater Side
6. Living with Machines - The Stockport Turnout's Petition
7. Tarren - Claudia's
8. Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell - Pop Goes the Weasel
9. Wistman's Wood - Mormond Braes
10. Sairie- Over the Hills and Far Away
11. Alexis Chartrand & Cédric Dind-Lavoie - La danse du barbier
12. Anna Massie - Out on the Ocean
13. Kejafi - The Tea Set: Anyone for G? / 2nd Brew
14. Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman - The Wild Colonial Boy

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

28/02/2024

Hear some tasty new releases and tantalising live tasters - in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 27/2/24, including:

1. Notify - Tá Mé I Mo Shuí / Murray's Potion (feat. Niall McCabe)
2. Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair
3. Owen and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - The Flower of Maherally
4. Old Spot, Jeri Foreman & Ruth Eliza - Josie-O
5. Alex Cu***ng Music - Boston Harbour
6. Goblin Band - The Prickle Holly Bush
7. Eric Simpson - The Buchan Bobby
8. Blazin' Fiddles - Garfield's
9. Zoë Conway, Dónal Lunny & Máirtín O'Connor - Paddy In London - A Tailor I Am - Adam and Eve
10. The SíFiddlers - Kitty Sean's, The Launching of the Boat, Cuffe Street
11. Spiers & Boden Official - Hind Horn

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

20/02/2024

Fiddles abound, but some great songs too - in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 20/2/24, where you’ll hear:

1. SykesMartin - Forsaken Maiden
2. Eoin O'Neill & Yvonne Casey - The Corner House / The Ravelled Hank of Yarn
3. The Kelly Family - Mary Brennan's, The Humours of Tullycrine, Mickey Callaghan's (Slide, Hornpipes)
4. Róisín Chambers - An Sceilpín Draighneach
5. Bríd Harper Music - The Kiss Behind the Door / Mick Carr's Barndance / Con Cassidy's
6. Eva Väljaots & Robbie Sherratt - Weavers
7. Mat Green & Andy Turner - Muffin Man / Quickstep in the Battle of Prague / Welch's Polka
8. Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton - Shepton Mallet Hornpipe Radstock Jig
9. Eimear Arkins Music - Scully Casey's / The Duck in the Oats - Single Jigs
10. Caitríona Sherlock Music - The Maid of Sweet Kilmore
11. Kitewing - Handsome Molly
12. Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle - Burke & Hare (Live)

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

13/02/2024

Another hopefully entertaining hour of music from the traditions that you can see and hear around Britain and Ireland this week - in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 13/2/24, featuring:

1. Orkney Folk Festival 2011: The Gathering - Polkas
2. The Chair - Festival Reels
3. Becky Dellow, John Davis & Jeff Gillett - Thomas Hardy's Slow Waltz / Morgan Rattler / Battered Hake
4. Hebble - As I Roved Out
5. Pádraic Keane, Páraic Banjo Mac Donnchadha & Macdara Ó Faoláin - Elizabeth Kelly's Delight / The First Slip / Hardiman the Fiddler
6. Peter and Jane - Polly Vaughan
7. Amy Laurenson Music- Shetland Wedding Tunes
8. RANT - The Big Reel of Ballynacally (Solas Cover)
9. Peter Knight & John Spiers - Le Berger De Laleuf / Signposts
10. Aoife Granville - The Midnight Hornpipe / The Drummerkane / Maid On the Shore (Hornpipe / Reels) [feat. Deirdre Granville]
11. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Mick O'Brien - The Dublin Lads, The Taproom, The Liffey Banks
12. The Wilderness Yet - The Banks Of The Bann
13. Josephine Marsh - Tomgraney Castle / The Stack Of Pancakes

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

06/02/2024

More musical inspiration from our folk traditions - in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 6/2/24, where you’ll find:

1. TRÚ - Seán Bháin
2. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne - Canada I O
3. Adam Holmes Music- Jock Stewart
4. Gavin Marwick's Journeyman Project - The Four Quarters/ Circle Around the Sun
5. Hirondelle - I Drew My Ship
6. The Memory Band- I Wish I Wish (first take)
7. Will Allen Music - Tip Top Polka / Astley's Ride
8. Freda Palmer - Up in the North
9. Mairi MacMillan - Marloch 23 - Fàgail Bhornais
10. Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble - The Boyne Water
11. Michelle Mulcahy - Jigs: Scattery Island/The Flowers of Spring/Patty O' Leary's
12. Sylvia Barnes - Todlen Hame

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

31/01/2024

Music from the latest releases as well as artists you can see live in London and Glasgow this week - all in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 30/1/24, including:

1. The Magpie Arc - Ae Fond Kiss
2. Janice Burns & Jon Doran - Early Early
3. Johnny Campbell - Lish Young Buy-A-Broom
4. Cerys Hafana - The Bitter Withy
5. Leonard Barry Music - The Munster Rake / The Arra Mountains / Last Night’s Fun
6. Alice Allen and Patsy Reid- Lady Isabella Wemyss’ Strathspey / Miss Ross’ Strathspey - Elgin / Easter Elchies
7. John Mulhearn Music - London Road
8. Lau - Ca' the Ewes
9. Sheena Wellington - Singer - Parcel O Rogues
10. Claire Hastings - Minnie o Shirva's Cradle Song
11. Johnny McCarthy & Eoin Ó Riabhaigh - The Hut On Straffin Island / The Doonagore Reel (Reels)
12. Doug Eunson and Sarah Matthews Duo- An Dro / En Joie

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

23/01/2024

More from Celtic Connections, a few from Temple Bar Trad Fest, plus a smattering of newies - all in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 23/1/24, including:

1. Topette - The Oblique Jig / Miss Heidi Hendy
2. Gillian Fleetwood Music - John MacLeod's Marching Past
3. Cillian Vallely Music & David Doocey - Scotch Mary
4. Alexander Aga Røynstrand - Bjølleslåtten
5. Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle - Down the North
6. ELÍR - Broomfield Wager
7. Tern - Shetland Reels
8. Julie Fowlis - Fear a’ Bhrochain / Dòmhnall Binn
9. Thomas McCarthy - The Wicklow Mountains High
10. Varo - Streets of Forbes
11. Brenda Castles - The Connaughtman's Rambles/The Kesh/Tom Ginley's Fancy
12. Celtic Fiddle Festival - Ricardo Portela / Muiñera
13. Rob Harbron - Besinox

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

16/01/2024

Hear some of the acts on the bill at Celtic Connections this week, plus some more of the best from 2023 – in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 16/1/24, including:

1. Shirley Collins - Swaggering Boney
2. Cerys Hafana - Child Owlet
3. Olivia Ross Music - Jock O'Hazeldean
4. Liz Knowles Music - Tuhy's Frolics / Rakes of Cashel
5. The Nordic Fiddler's Bloc - Tune for Lukas / Up Da Stroods Da Sailor Goes
6. Goitse - Green Fields of Canada
7. The Friel Sisters - Young Tom Ennis/King of the Pipers/Hunt the Cat
8. Maggie MacInnes - Fath Mo Mhulaid a Bhith Ann
9. The Bothy Band - Old Hag You Have Killed Me
10. Henry Parker Henry Parker - Long Lankin
11. Vic Shepherd & John Bowden - Campbell The Drover
12. Morvran - From Night 'til Morn
13. She Shanties - Mingulay Boat Song

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

09/01/2024

Much to enjoy (we hope you’ll agree!) in the first new Take On Tradition podcast of the year - available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 9/1/24, where you’ll find:

1. Tom & Barbara Brown - Cornish Ploughboys
2. Frog on a Bike Ceilidh Band - 18 Pints and Then... / The Morgan Rattler
3. Sarah McQuaid - When a Man's in Love,
4. Lauren Collier Music - Myrakle
5. Cath and Phil Tyler - I Come And Stand At Every Door
6. Sharon Shannon- Frenchie's Reel / The Bealacana Polka
7. Bella Hardy - Loving Hannah
8. Richard Thompson - RT - W***y O'Winsbury [Live]
9. Conor Arkins Music & Paul Clesham - The Shaskeen/Paddy Fahey’s/Ashmolean House (Reels)
10. Gabriel McArdle - The Cavan Road
11. Fiachra O'Regan - The Humours of Castleoliver / Molly in the Wad
12. Calum Stewart - Craigellachie Lasses
13. Bob Cann - Dorsetshire Hornpipe

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

02/01/2024

For the first of '24, another chance to hear the first of '21 - log on to enjoy the show first broadcast on 5/1/21 - in this week's podcast, now available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 2/1/24, where you’ll find:
1. Fred Whiting - Miner's Dream Of Home
2. Debra Cowan & John Roberts - Star of the East
3. Buell Kazee - Lady Gay
4. Bonny Light Horseman - Magpie's Nest
5. Sam Amidon - Fatal Flower Garden
6. Kevin Meehan - I Have It Somewhere
7. Ron Jappy - From The East
8. Fay Hield - Old Grey Goose
9. Lewis Wood - Portobello Hornpipe (92bpm)
10. TMSA - Sarah's Set
11. Caoimhín Ó Fearghail - The Fermoy Lasses/The The One Horned Cow/The Rambling Thatcher
12. Síle Denvir - An Cailín Fearúil Fionn
13. The Often Herd - Cattle In The Cane

also on Mixcloud at mixcloud.com/wilwalker

27/12/2023

Podcast now up at http://www.exilefm.com/podcasts/angels-and-demons-at-play-with-the-tradition-60 !

24/12/2023

Hear a different side of my Take on Tradition this Boxing Day!

Let Exile FM soundtrack your Boxing Day morning with Martin Flowers and Wil Walker’s Angels and Demons At Play With The Tradition two hour special right after Martin Haskell’s Doing Porridge at 10am UK time!

19/12/2023

Get into the winter festive mood, with this year’s Christmas podcast - available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 19/12/23, where you can jingle your bells to:

1. Ross Miller Music - Christmas Madness
2. Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones - RIPON SWORD DANCE
3. Jackie Oates - The Trees Are All Bare
4. A Winter Union - All Bells In Paradise
5. Mean Mary - Here We Come a - Caroling
6. Tim Eriksen - Angels We Have Heard On High
7. Mike Vass (feat. Kathleen MacInnes) - Ciuin an oidhch’
8. G**o Kvifte Nesheim & Tellef Kvifte - En rose er utsprungen (2023)
9. Burd Ellen - Taladh Chriosda
10. John Fahey - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy
11. Coope, Boyes And Simpson - Hark, Hark What News
12. VRï- Drwy Rinwedd Dadleuaeth
13. Lal Waterson - Christmas is now drawing near at hand
14. Greanvine - Herod & the C**k
15. Fionnuala Maxwell - When the Mummers Come Calling
16. Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - The Holly and the Ivy
17. The Chieftains - The Di**le Set - Dance

Also on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/WilWalker

12/12/2023

Hear tracks from Wil Walker’s Take On Tradition best albums of 2023 - in this week’s podcast, available to stream or download via the Media tab at exilefm.com for one week from 12/12/23, in playlist order:

1. The Old Torn Petticoat / The Primrose Lass / The Heather Breeze (Reels)
from The Primrose Lass by Sorcha Costello #14
2. Brìghde Chaimbeul - Tunes in Butterstone Hall
from The Piper and the Maker II ~ Celebrating C #13
3. Rosie Stewart - Jug of Punch.
from A Collection of Songs in the Traditional & Sean-Nós
Style #12
4. Johnny’s Welcome Home / Miss Crawford / Paddy Fahey’s
from Keane/Connolly/McGorman #11
5. Nathaniel Gow’s / The Sailor’s Wife
from just a second by Ryan Young #10
6. The Colour of Amber
from The Colour of Amber by Nick Hart & Tom Moore #9
7. Pan own i ar foreddydd
from Galargan by The Gentle Good #8
8. Bread and Roses
from Where Are All The Women? by Jennie Higgins #7
9. About the Bush, Willie
from Bric-A-Brac Box by Frank Lee #6
10. The Wonderful Grey Horse
from Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall by
Alasdair Roberts #5
11. Peacock Followed the Hen
from Never So Red by Frankie Archer Music #4
12. The Zoological Gardens
from Look Over the Wall, See the Sky by John Francis Flynn #3
13. Newcastle
from False Lankum by LANKUM #2
14. The Old Haile Hornpipe
from Northwestern English Fiddle by
Mikey Kenney - Fiddle and Voice #1

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