At Home with Karine Polwart
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and solo performances recorded at home by UK musicians. In this episode, it鈥檚 the turn of Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart.
From her garage studio in Wiltshire, Verity Sharp calls up musicians who are rooted in traditional music, exercises their home-recording skills, and asks them to sing something that鈥檚 been particularly resonating for them during lockdown. From her kitchen, the Scottish artist Karine Polwart sings a song about the Diggers while celebrating the fact that vegetables are now being planted for the first time in both her garden and the public park.
In this period of social distancing, how is music helping us keep connected to the things that matter? With its deep links to people, communities, land, nature and history, folk song has much to offer at this point in time.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3.
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