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The Folk Music Hour
by David Calder
David Calder presents the music he loves
Episodes
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The Folk Music Hour: Trios, Too
A second playlist of fine folk featuring three artists and some super singing.
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The Folk Music Hour: Blues in 12 Bars
We investigate the blues, folk music that led to a dozen genres played today.
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The Folk Music Hour: Classical Folk
We explore the connections and disconnections that needlessly divide folk and so-called classical music.
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The Folk Music Hour: The Singing Word: Part 5
The Singing Word is a series created by Davey Calder, investigating what happens when poetry is set to music, becoming folk song. This is episode five.
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The Folk Music Hour: The Singing Word: Part 4
The Singing Word is a series created by Davey Calder, investigating what happens when poetry is set to music, becoming folk song. This is episode four.
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The Folk Music Hour: The Singing Word: Part 3
The Singing Word is a series created by Davey Calder, investigating what happens when poetry is set to music, becoming folk song. This is episode three.
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The Folk Music Hour: The Singing Word: Part 2
The Singing Word is a series created by Davey Calder, investigating what happens when poetry is set to music, becoming folk song. This is episode two.
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The Folk Music Hour: The Singing Word: Part 1
The Singing Word is a series created by Davey Calder, investigating what happens when poetry is set to music, becoming folk song. This is episode one.
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The Folk Music Hour: New Zealand Music Month - Part 4
Join Davey Calder for the final installment of his 2025 series on Aotearoa folk music, as a part of New Zealand Music Month.
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The Folk Music Hour: NZ Music Month 2025: Part 3
Our all-Kiwi theme for NZ Music Month continues.
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The Folk Music Hour: NZ Music Month 2025: Part 2
We continue our New Zealand music month with selections from all over the country.
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The Folk Music Hour: NZ Music Month 2025: Part 1 - Awards Season
Our 8th all-Kiwi New Zealand Music Month Folk Music Hours begins with a look at music awards.
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The Folk Music Hour: Longing for Peace
For Anzac Day, Memorial Day, and Remembrance Day, a playlist of songs about the human longing to live in peace.
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The Folk Music Hour: Bow
Join Davey as he shares some of his favourite folk covers.
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The Folk Music Hour: More Funny Folk
We’ve put together another playlist of songs where the artists seek to amuse us, sometimes with a message implied.
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The Folk Music Hour: Covers Again
Join Davey as he shares some of his favourite folk covers
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The Folk Music Hour: Trad by Mod
Traditional songs get a new lease of life performed by contemporary artists.
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The Folk Music Hour: A Complete Unknown
The FMH companion to the film looks at the music from this turbulent time in history and contemporary folk song.
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The Folk Music Hour: Woverview 2025
It's that time of year again, when we kick out the jams and the Folk Music Hour gets a bit loud as we preview some of the amazing sounds coming to Brooklands Park in New Plymouth, for the 22nd NZ WOMAD, World of Music, Art, and Dance. As always, the lineup gives us the chance to enjoy cultures…
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The Folk Music Hour: Free as a Bird
The sound of birds is a strong thread in the folk tradition
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The Folk Music Hour: Pop Goes Folk Again
It's uncanny how close to folk some pop music can become.
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The Folk Music Hour: Pete Seeger
Every year, we play a programme of entertaining songs from the Johnny Appleseed of folk and Americana whose banjo kicks off every Folk Music Hour
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The Folk Music Hour: Martin Luther King Day
Each year we celebrate Martin Luther King Day by looking at the rich legacy of African American music. MLK Day 2025 is Jan 20th
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The Folk Music Hour: Acting Folk
Actors who sing and play - and singers who act - make for an interesting playlist
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The Folk Music Hour: Sandy Denny
We begin every year with a programme of Sandy's music, near the time of her birthday
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The Folk Music Hour: Compliments of the Season
Our scrumptious Christmas and New Year's Eve show ends another year of fine folk.
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The Folk Music Hour: Mixtape 18
Another playlist of choice folk includes news of WOMAD NZ 2025
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The Folk Music Hour: Duets
The more we hunt through great folk and acoustic music, the more duets and duos we seem to find.
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The Folk Music Hour: Songs of the Sea
The seafarer's life has inspired a vast repertoire of folk songs.
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The Folk Music Hour: Songs of the Sea
The seafarer's life has inspired a vast repertoire of folk songs.
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The Folk Music Hour: Folk Fusion
Setting fine musicianship to a beat is being called Folk Fusion, and Celtic sounds work superbly.
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The Folk Music Hour: Five Hundred
A celebration of the 500th Folk Music Hour includes some of David's favourites
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The Folk Music Hour: Farewells
A playlist of goodbye songs, of which there are many, some even promising a return.
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The Folk Music Hour: Folk Genres
The desire to classify kinds of music has ocurred in Folk, too
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The Folk Music Hour: Mixtape 17
A new world tour sharing folk music that includes tracks sent in by listeners
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The Folk Music Hour: Our Celtic Roots
So many of us have bloodlines that go back to the ancient Celtic peoples of Eurasia. That’s why we love Celtic music.
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The Folk Music Hour: Pick
Humans soon learn to hold something hard but flexible to get the best out of their stringed instruments. The 6th in our series Instruments of Folk.
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The Folk Music Hour: Bow
Our Instruments of Folk series resumes. After plucking strings to make folk music, some clever person invented a bow to draw across the strings.
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The Folk Music Hour: Māori Folk
For Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2024, we try to unravel the mystery: what is Māori folk music?
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The Folk Music Hour: Women Folk
To mark 131 years of women’s suffrage in NZ, an all-female programme of folk and related music.
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The Folk Music Hour: Harmony Folk
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of folk song, for the performer and the audience alike, is singing in harmony.
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The Folk Music Hour: Kids Stuff
Songs and rhymes for children have folk origins and tell some wonderful stories.
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The Folk Music Hour: Protest, Revisited
We pick up the theme of Protest November, four podcasts from 2018, with new issues and songs.
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The Folk Music Hour: Mixtape 16
Some more songs and tunes too good to miss make up a sampler from over 60 years of folk.
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The Folk Music Hour: Lisa Hannigan
The Irish composer, instrumentalist and songstress influences modern folk with her interesting music.
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The Folk Music Hour: Young Tradition
Young musicians are very talented; some are keeping traditional folk going while others are adding to it.
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The Folk Music Hour: Cover Versions
We can’t seem to help finding versions of songs we think you will love.
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The Folk Music Hour: More Screen Folk
It's amazing how many filmmakers illustrate their themes with folk music.
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The Folk Music Hour: Woody Guthrie Day
July 14th is the National Day of France, and the birthdate of Woody Guthrie, whose lyrics spoke of freedom and human rights
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The Folk Music Hour: Pop Goes Folk
In which we see the folk artist sounding pop, and the pop artist going folk.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does The Folk Music Hour have?
The Folk Music Hour currently has 116 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Folk Music Hour about?
David Calder presents the music he loves
How often does The Folk Music Hour release new episodes?
The Folk Music Hour publishes regularly with 116 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
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Who hosts The Folk Music Hour?
The Folk Music Hour is created and hosted by David Calder.
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