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#Folk6Music - Help Choose a Fantastic Folk Playlist

Tom Robinson wants suggestions for a fantastic folk-inspired playlist to celebrate 6 Music's bank holiday folk weekend.

It's all about folk on Sunday's Now Playing (6-8pm) when we'll continue 6 Music's Easter folk bank holiday weekender with two hours of YOUR folkie song choices.

With folk rock band The Decemberists taking care of business on Friday night, then The Unthanks curating 6 Music's output on Monday evening, this week's Now Playing provides the listener-sourced filling in a Sunday folk sandwich.

As well as this glorious station celebrating folk with two of the finest exponents of the genre, folk is in the news elsewhere at the moment. Sufjan Stevens is set to release what everyone is saying is his masterpiece album 'Carrie & Lowell' on Monday, and of course our thoughts are with the legendary and irreplaceable Joni Mitchell who sadly fell ill this week. Get well soon, Joni!

So with folk on the tip of tongues this week, whom will you choose to include in Sunday's decisive folk playlist?

You could choose some of your favourite contemporary folk artists like Seth Lakeman, Eliza Carthy, Frank Turner, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Great Lake Swimmers or Fleet Foxes
Why not suggest any number of the founding mothers and fathers of folk, like Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and of course the aforementioned Joni Mitchell.
Or how about artists who've been inspired by the ideas of storytelling in their work, from The Streets to Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash or Jay-Z.

You pick the music, so get your folk-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #Folk6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.

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Music Played

  • Fairport Convention

    Matty Groves

  • King Creosote

    Largs

    • Domino Recording Co.

  • The Pogues

    I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everyday

  • Tom Rush

    The Circle Game

  • Bellowhead

    New York Girls

  • Pentangle

    Sovay

  • Kate Bush

    Babooshka

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Seth Lakeman

    Kitty Jay

  • Appendix Out

    Sally Free & Easy

  • Tunng

    Bullets

  • Nick Drake

    Three Hours

    • Five Leaves Left.
    • Island Records.
    • 3.

  • This Is the Kit

    Magic Spell

  • The John Renbourn Group

    A Maid In Bedlam

    • A Maid In Bedlam.
    • Transatlantic Records.
    • 3.

  • Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

    The Ballad Of Accounting

    • Folkways Record Of Contemporary Songs.
    • Folkways Records.
    • 1.

  • Mississippi John Hurt

    Candy Man Blues

    • Monday Morning Blues.
    • Flyright Records.
    • 4.

  • Karnie Polwart & Lau

    Midnight Feast

    • Evergreen.
    • Lau Scotland LTD.
    • 3.

  • Led Zeppelin

    That's The Way

    • Led Zeppelin III.
    • Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Joni Mitchell

    For Free

    • Ladies Of The Canyon.
    • Reprise.

  • Shirley & Dolly Collins

    The Oxford Girl

    • The Harvest Years.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Levellers

    What a Beautiful Day

  • PJ Harvey

    Let England Shake

    • Island.

  • Eliza Carthy & Kae Tempest

    Progress (Live From 6 Music Festival 2015)

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Apr 2015 18:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music