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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 大象传媒 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.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 5 Jun 2019 21:00

Music Played

  • Wildwood Kin

    Never Alone

  • Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys

    Morning Train

  • Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

    The Song Of The Iron Road

  • The Memory Band

    After Night

  • Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

    All The While

  • Bella Hardy

    The Oak & The Ivy

    • Postcards & Pocketbooks: The Best of.
  • Mera Royle

    New Blues (Session for The Folk Show, Radio 2)

  • O'Hooley & Tidow

    Colne Valley Hearts

  • Meic Stevens

    Ghost Town

  • Mera Royle

    Tubular Bells (Session for The Folk Show, Radio 2)

  • Kris Drever

    Scapa Flow

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Jun 2019 21:00