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with Folk on 2 Including an interview with Dave and Chris Pegg about the 1993 Cropredy Festival, which begins on Friday. The festival was founded by Fairport Convention, who still select the musicians who appear each year.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Chris Pegg
Interviewee:
Dave Pegg

In the second of eight programmes, Northumbrian folk star Kathryn Tickell introduces music recorded at the 39th International
Festival of Folk Arts at
Sidmouth. This week: singer Roy Bailey and multi-instrumentalist
Steafan Hannigan. Producer Stuart Hobday

Contributors

Introduces:
Kathryn Tickell
Singer:
Roy Bailey
Unknown:
Steafan Hannigan.
Producer:
Stuart Hobday

In the fourth of six programmes,
Georgina Boyes looks at the collectors' vision of a folk-song paradise. The programme concentrates on the work of Maud Karpeles in Newfoundland and the Appalachian mountains of America, as well as important figures such as the Lomaxes, who collected the rural blues of Leadbelly, and A L Lloyd, who discovered the music of Albania. Including
Leadbelly's Goodnight
Irene; an Albanian wedding song; The False Knight on the Road and The Frog He Went A-Courting from the Appalachians; and Sweet William's Ghost and The
Cock of the North from
Newfoundland.
Producer David Corser

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgina Boyes
Unknown:
Maud Karpeles
Producer:
David Corser

The last of six programmes featuring Britain's premier Afro-Caribbean a cappella group Black Voices, plus special guests Caliche - a band with members from
Chile, Peru and Cornwall, who play music based on the traditions of the Andes.
Presented by Carol Pemberton.

Contributors

Presented By:
Carol Pemberton.

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