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The Bright Young Folk Interviews

Bright Young Folk provides interviews with top folk acts and rising stars, all filmed exclusively for you.

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Bellowhead Matachin interview #1 - John Spiers
Bellowhead Matachin interview #2 - Justin Thurgur
Bellowhead Matachin interview #3 - Paul Sartin
Bellowhead recording Hedonism at Abbey Road
Belshazzar’s Feast discuss their winter album Frost Bites
Benji Kirkpatrick on joining Seth Lakeman’s band
Benji Kirkpatrick talks about his solo work
Damien Barber - Demon Barbers’ trip to China part1
Damien Barber - Demon Barbers’ trip to China part2
Darwin Song Project - Krista Detor, Stu Hanna & Karine Polwart - part 1
Darwin Song Project - Krista Detor, Stu Hanna & Karine Polwart - part 2
Darwin Song Project - Rachael McShane & Stu Hanna
Dave Swarbrick & Sam Sweeney on the fiddle
Dave Swarbrick interviewed by Sam Sweeney
Eliza Carthy on being in the folk music tradition
Eliza Carthy on recording a new CD with her mother
Giles Lewin on his solo CD The Armchair Orienteer
Giles Lewin on playing with Bellowhead and Maddy Prior
Hannah James & Sam Sweeney talk about Catches & Glees
In conversation with Jim Moray part 1 - I am Jim Moray EP and Sweet England
In conversation with Jim Moray part 2 - the Jim Moray CD and Low Culture
In conversation with Jim Moray part 3 - The folk & morris revival
In conversation with Jim Moray part 4 - Twitter & production work
In conversation with Jim Moray part 5 - Recording In Modern History part 1
In conversation with Jim Moray part 6 - Recording In Modern History part 2
Jim Causley talks about his BBC Devon radio show and the end of Mawkin:Causley
Jim Moray announces new album - Skulk
John Spiers & Jon Boden celebrate their tenth anniversary
John Spiers at the Oxford Folk Festival 2009
John Spiers on Bellowhead’s non-album tracks
John Spiers on English folk music
Jon Boden answers fans’ questions
Jon Boden Interview
Kerfuffle discuss their new mid-Winter CD and tour Lighten the Dark
Lau talk about playing live, musical inspirations and beekeeping
Lau talk about their new CD Arc Light
Lewis Garland and the Kett Rebellion on their Klezmer influence and state of the music industry
Maclaine Colston & Saul Rose discuss their debut album Sand & Soil
Maclaine Colston interview
Mawkin:Causley - folk’s boy band?
Mawkin:Causley talk about The Awkward Recruit
Rachael McShane talks about her solo CD and plans with Bellowhead
Saul Rose interview
Seth Lakeman answers fan’s questions
Seth Lakeman on his upcoming record Hearts & Minds
The Cecil Sharp Project working on material at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival song house
The Demon Barbers discuss The Adventures of Captain Ward
The Imagined Village discuss Empire & Love
The Imagined Village discuss the accusation that English folk music is “arthritically white”
Wheeler Street Interview