THE sounds and styles of three of the greatest musicians from the 1950s and 60s can be heard at the May show of the Nettlebed Folk Club.
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts for the BBC Home Service using an audio documentary format to highlight the experiences of real people.
The trio weaved the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about their recorded interviews, the first time regional accents had been heard on BBC Radio.
These eight programmes were masterpieces of radio, producing many songs that have since become folk classics. There was a revival in 2006 with a team of stellar musicians, singers and songwriters from the folk/acoustic/roots music scene. Now three members of that team, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews, have put together a selection of the songs ‘IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EWAN MacCOLL’.
Expect to be entertained and enlightened by songs of joy, love, hardship and humour.
The show takes place in The Butler in Chatham Street, Reading on Monday, May 15 at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £19. For more details, or to book, call: 01628 636620 or 01628 603670 between 10am and 8pm, or log on to: http://www.nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk/
