Hello, I'm Matthew Bannister, and this is a delicious taster of the joys of my

multi-award-winning folk-on-foot podcast. The idea is simple. In each episode, I go walking

with a top folk artist in a landscape that's inspired their music, and they sing and play on location.

We learn about history, the natural world, and the experiences that have shaped the artist's careers.

Writing in The Telegraph, Charlotte Runcie summed it up like this.

The music is transcendent, the sense of place transporting,

and if you need escape from politics, from illness, from anything,

it's a restorative breathing space in sound.

Music On our travels across the UK and Ireland,

we're often blessed by the sounds of the natural world combining with beautiful music,

as we found when we walked with Corrine Polwett

on Fallar Moore near her home in Midlothian.

In English Lord, the Curlew is one of the seven whistlers,

along with the Golden Plover, which is another bird you would hear here.

And the seven whistling birds, here he comes. Gosh, she's so close.

I'm here it is. Amazing.

But there are seven birds with a very similar doleful plaintive cry.

And this is interesting because to me,

carloos and plovers sound sad.

And Skylark sound happy.

Yes, it's true.

You know, like you're making those.

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