Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

I've been exploring my expansive vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening from 9pm 'til 11pm.

The next show goes out tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm (after Express FM Country) featuring the following artists :

Laura Cantrell, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Jo Harman, Gretchen Peters, Devon Sproule, Marley Blandford, John & Beverley Martyn, Nick Drake, Cara Dillon, Seth Lakeman, Kelly Joe Phelps, Judith Owen, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Peter Mulvey, Chris Smither, Dodson & Fogg, Vikki Clayton, Maartin Allcock, The Civil Wars, The Cadbury Sisters, Show Of Hands, Travelling Wilburys...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Express FM, on DAB and on the interweb here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

You people be thankful. Our local festival has booked - among others - a turn with eight Facebook followers who makes music by reprogramming old games consoles and a ZX Spectrum. It's hard not to reflect out loud on the line up without sounding like the last Richard Littlejohn column out of Saigon.

Thanks, Paul.  No idea why I couldn't see that but I couldn't.  I'll be really interested to see what price these go out at.  If it's literally identical to the previous release I'll definitely be in.  In the meantime I wonder if there will be a firesale of the existing copies for sale.  I actually know of someone who paid £850 for one only 7 months ago.  Ouch.

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Robert Beam
I wish they would re-release Sandy’s cd box sets, they are so expensive, but the music is so beautiful.
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Sandy Denny
Robert Beam we are releasing the 19 CD box , it’s the big one. I will definitely post it on this page when I have more information
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Robert Beam
Sandy Denny , highly anticipating that one!, thank you 😊
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Magnificent 40 by The Men They Couldnt Hang,
3 CD retro collection, by a band that never did Cropredy, (did they ?) They would have gone down a storm,.  Bit too close to the Pogues for Peggy's taste?

Paul Weller's "66".

I think I need to listen again, a few times.

They go to festivals regularly, there's a financial point at which the craic is less of an attraction than seeing the bands they like.

You are not alone..😉
Pretty much sums up a similar situation here, albeit tinged with a hint of sadness......

I got bored with FC themselves who didn't seem to be putting much effort into the Cropredy sets for the last few years. It started the year they ran out of material with about 15 minutes to go.   The Saturday sets became the winter tour with a guest or two thrown in and not a lot of spontenaity..  The other thing is due to my feet and knees I can't do standing gigs, never mind 3 days in a field in all weathers, anymore.  I miss seeing the friends but, at 71, not the pain.
     Festivals carried on happily without me before I went to Cropredy for the first time in 1997, I hope it managed to carry on, probably changed somewhat without me.

You do what is best for you. I'm in my 60s and in pretty good health and still looking forward to camping for the festival. Bought my tickets as usual before the line up was revealed but this year has got to be the first year in ages when I've been so disappointed with headliners and sub headliners. Just think the organisers for whatever reasons have not put together a line up that's going to help ticket sales. i hope I'm proved wrong, I really do for the sake of all involved.