The Song Detectorists unearth music in the most unlikely places tonight at 9.45pm on Radio 3: political balladry hidden in legal documents and - most exciting of all - a score in Henry Purcell's own hand among the minutes of a town council. @musicheritageplace.bsky.social @nancyannfolk.bsky.social
24.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1This is a wonderful collection, and through it I discovered something new about my favourite tune - Night Till Morn AKA “A Love”…
23.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is a wonderful collection, and through it I discovered something new about my favourite tune - Night Till Morn AKA “A Love”…
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Here's a taster of tonight's episode. Join us on BBC Radio 3 at 9.45pm as we journey to Northamptonshire with @matthewbannister.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and the Melrose Quartet.
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Tonight on BBC Radio 3, Matthew and the Song Detectorists discover why a gentlewoman from Wiltshire collected this salty song of the sea (sung by the wonderful Melrose Quartet).
Tune in at 21:45 or listen afterwards on BBC Sounds.
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Wiltshire tonight on #thesongdetectorists
I fell in love with many of the songs found here - all collected/composed by women - AND got to work with brilliant local historian Lucy Whitfield!
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Tonight's episode on BBC Radio 3 takes us to Wiltshire. Tune in at 9.45pm for another adventure by the #songdetectorists
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Wiltshire tonight on #thesongdetectorists
I fell in love with many of the songs found here - all collected/composed by women - AND got to work with brilliant local historian Lucy Whitfield!
@musicheritageplace.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... Here we are in Lincolnshire - tracking down the Devil and - on a brighter note - The Jolly Miller. @nancyannfolk.bsky.social @musicheritageplace.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social
21.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Episode 2 tonight!
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Tune into @radio3.es for tonight’s adventure in Lincolnshire!
I’m looking at place names and bits of melody as they surface in this region over the centuries - and the Devil features heavily!
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Lincolnshire tonight! The cradle of English folk, in many ways, and a favourite region of mine.
Jess & Richard Arrowsmith’s super version of Jolly Miller is the first tune in the book we’re uncovering, and I look at bits of melody and place names as they resurface across centuries.
9.45 Radio 3
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... In case you missed it - here’s tonight’s Song Detectorists - “rewilding” the West Gallery compositions of a thatcher from Shropshire. Thanks to @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and The Melrose Quartet, @musicheritageplace.bsky.social and @natalie-steed.bsky.social
20.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0@shrewsburyfolk.bsky.social Splendid sharing of an equally splendid example of what makes #ShrewsburyFolkFestival such a top tier Folk event. Don't know if @matthewbannister.bsky.social and the @folkonfoot.com team have ever had the pleasure of visiting SFF. :)
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Lincolnshire tonight! The cradle of English folk, in many ways, and a favourite region of mine.
Jess & Richard Arrowsmith’s super version of Jolly Miller is the first tune in the book we’re uncovering, and I look at bits of melody and place names as they resurface across centuries.
9.45 Radio 3
It was very moving to hear our Melrose Quartet Shrewsbury Folk Festival song workshop revisited as part of this season 2 premiere last night. Thanks to @natalie-steed.bsky.social for capturing our teaching - something we love to do! Listen again here and to the rest of the series all week.
21.10.2025 10:18 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2We're off to Lincolnshire in search of the Devil with Carol Dawson, @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and the Melrose Quartet and @musicheritageplace.bsky.social in tonight's Song Detectorists on Radio 3 at 9.45pm. Lovely production, as ever, by @natalie-steed.bsky.social
21.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2Lincolnshire tonight!
21.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tune to BBC Radio 3 at 21:45 tonight for the second series of the #songdectorists, starting in Shropshire
20.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Very excited for - and proud of - this!
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Series 2 of The Song Detectorists launches tonight! Featuring me with Melrose Quartet, and the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social team.
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Really exciting work by our colleagues at @musicheritageplace.bsky.social discovering Purcell manuscripts!
07.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0An exciting discovery!
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Off to Kimpton folk fest as usual at this time of year! I’ll be presenting some of the discoveries so far from AHRC project Music Heritage Place, with very special guests the National Youth Folk Troupe of England. 3.30 at the Dacre Rooms
kimptonfolk.co.uk/schedules
I’m really looking forward to teaching at the Folkworks Summer Sessions in Gateshead this July 16-18! Book your tickets now for what I’m sure will be a brilliant few days of music making and fun.
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I’m really looking forward to teaching at the Folkworks Summer Sessions in Gateshead this July 16-18! Book your tickets now for what I’m sure will be a brilliant few days of music making and fun.
theglasshouseicm.org/whats-on/fol...
This beautiful collection has been explored by a range of musicians including our much-missed Paul Sartin. My new words to the ubiquitous Evening Hymn are inspired by the Test Valley and Richard Adams’s Watership Down.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This beautiful collection has been explored by a range of musicians including our much-missed Paul Sartin. My new words to the ubiquitous Evening Hymn are inspired by the Test Valley and Richard Adams’s Watership Down.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Music from an eighteenth-century tune book unearthed in the County archives is brought back to life by Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet in Matthew’s series “The Song Detectorists” tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 9:45pm, and on BBC Sounds.
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