We’re seeing more of those unmistakable signs that summer is almost over – the wasps are getting more restless than usual, you can actually work outside during the day in the garden and not expire, the national media is full of those tiresome annual stories about the traumas of an impending school year, and your local trad music show is playing the last of its summer series. For us, in the northern hemisphere, it means a return to the glorious cooler weather and the brilliant end-of-season colours. Though, for those of you in Uruguay or Tasmania, it means the beginning of the hot weather. So today on Routes & Branches & Beyond I have the 6th (and final) episode of “Summer on the Range.”
I have contra dance welcomes, transcendental folk, fanciful ideas from Merrie Olde Englande, celtic didgeridoo stylings, dignified Dartmoor hornpipes, 60s folk scare hitmakers, Canadian medieval tunes, early morning rain, organ funk, Quebecois effervescence, Scottish whiskey thoughts, and cold and lowdown bluegrass. All from bands like Nightingale, Elephant Revival, Horses Brawl, The Céilí Bandits, Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll, The Limeliters, Sylvia Tyson, Bob Dylan, James Taylor Quartet, La Part du Quêteux, Jim McGinley, Shari Ulrich, and Blue Highway. Loosen your tie and join me.
