Folk on Foot

Folk on Foot Matthew Bannister’s all walking, talking and singing podcast.

15/08/2025

🆕 New episode out now - Alex Rex and Lavinia BlackwAll in Govan and Carbeth. Contains beautiful harmonies, Viking burial stones, hand-decorated huts and memories of their time together in Trembling Bells.

🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/313ecc

It's almost time! Join us on YouTube from 7pm BST for the Official Folk Albums Chart Show, with music from Brìghde Chaim...
05/08/2025

It's almost time! Join us on YouTube from 7pm BST for the Official Folk Albums Chart Show, with music from Brìghde Chaimbeul, Billie Marten, Poor Creature, Allo Darlin', Ann Liu Cannon, California Irish, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars, Me Lost Me and Ruth Lyon.

Tune in here: youtu.be/TpvJhVJQe8Y

This month’s Chart Show features music from Billie Marten, Poor Creature, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Allo Darlin', Ann Liu Canno...
05/08/2025

This month’s Chart Show features music from Billie Marten, Poor Creature, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Allo Darlin', Ann Liu Cannon, California Irish, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars, Me Lost Me and Ruth Lyon.

Join us on YouTube from 7pm BST:
youtu.be/TpvJhVJQe8Y

Martin Simpson joins Chris Packham and his dogs Sid and Nancy for an evocative musical walk in the New Forest in our new...
26/07/2025

Martin Simpson joins Chris Packham and his dogs Sid and Nancy for an evocative musical walk in the New Forest in our new episode, out now.

🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2fdf4a

We’re delighted to be nominated once again in the Best Arts and Culture section of the British Podcast Awards. This nomi...
25/07/2025

We’re delighted to be nominated once again in the Best Arts and Culture section of the British Podcast Awards. This nomination is a real tribute to the hard work put in by our team behind the scenes - and thanks also to all of you for listening and supporting us.

The event takes place at indigo at The O2 on 2nd October - wish us luck! 🤞

18/07/2025

🆕 New episode out now - Chris Packham and Martin Simpson on an emotional and evocative musical walk in the New Forest.

🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2fdf4a

14/02/2025

🆕 New episode out now: examining the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade in Bristol through Reg Meuross Music’s powerful ‘Stolen from God’ song cycle. Featuring Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (concertina/vocals) and Modou Ndiaye Music (kora).

🎧 Listen at pod.fo/e/2aca95

Bristol Beacon // M Shed // Bristol Cathedral

It's almost time! Join us on YouTube from 7pm for tonight's Chart Show, with music from The Longest Johns, Ferocious Dog...
04/02/2025

It's almost time! Join us on YouTube from 7pm for tonight's Chart Show, with music from The Longest Johns, Ferocious Dog, Sophie Jamieson, Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions, jasmine.4.t, Laura Marling, Nathan Evans and David Gray.

Watch the show here:
youtu.be/5r26h-Eh0ME

31/01/2025

There's free UK shipping on everything in our online shop this weekend, so it's the perfect time to treat yourself to one of our cosy Folk on Foot hoodies. With a beautiful design by Alex Merry, they're the perfect way to stay warm on a winter walk!

Find these and more at folkonfoot.com/shop

17/01/2025

🌟 New episode out now: Brighton-based band Bird in the Belly walking, talking and singing at the Tremula Festival on the South Downs Way, with an audience of Folk on Foot fans joining us for the first time.

🎧 Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/29ec24

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Welcome to Folk on Foot, the award winning podcast that brings together my three passions - folk music, walking and telling stories in sound. Many of the UK’s top folk artists have walked, talked, played and sung with us in spectacular locations ranging from mountain tops to remote white sand beaches and from a disused brick factory near Sheffield to a Sussex wood in the middle of the night. We have captured the sounds of the natural world: curlews circling overhead, waves crashing on the shore, rivers burbling under bridges, campfires crackling and above all feet tramping through all kinds of terrain. And the music takes on a new power when you hear it performed in the places that inspired it.

On our website you can listen to our extraordinary episodes, watch our atmospheric films and sign up for our newsletter so you’ll be the first to hear the latest info about Folk on Foot. You could even become a patron - paying a small amount each month to support us.

https://www.folkonfoot.com/

We hope you enjoy listening to Folk on Foot as much as we love making it.